Landscape Design Basics

Author: Li Kairan
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The book Landscape Design Fundamentals can serve as a professional textbook for landscape professionals, students, and practitioners, as well as a popular book introducing basic landscape design knowledge to general readers. The book is divided into three parts. The first part systematically introduces the concepts of the landscape discipline and its related practical types at micro, meso, and macro levels, helping to establish a comprehensive understanding of the landscape discipline. The second part, as a necessary knowledge foundation for the discipline, briefly introduces the characteristics of important historical landscapes in China and around the world, as well as their background, design styles, etc. The third part, using a decomposition logic of four categories—space, surface, focal point, and accessories—systematically and clearly discusses landscape design methods, explaining general design procedures and the basic expression of design plans. Reading through the entire book can help readers establish a complete theoretical framework and knowledge system of landscape design, learn the thinking logic of landscape design, and benefit from various landscape planning and design practices at different levels and in various aspects.