Residential Landscape Architecture provides quality fundamentals of residential site design—exploring functional and artistic elements, with a focus on appreciation of quality and updated standards for site development, maintenance techniques and training. It clearly illustrates and discusses the actual procedures and underlying principles utilized by experienced residential site designers.

This text is an outstanding resource written for students who are beginning their design careers, as well as those currently practicing residential design.

Features:

• Examines landscape designs and structures that blend with the existing house character
• Illustrates examples of using principles in design forms and patterns
• Gives guidelines and examples for dealing with the corner site, the wooded site, the sloped site, and the townhouse or condominium site
• A practical approach with nearly 500 illustrations
• A realistic step-by-step outlook with a focus on the process of design
• Guidelines for working with a client
• A major case study
• And much more!