Textbook Series on Environmental Art and Design for Chinese Higher Education Institutions -- Basics of Landscape Design

Author: Li Kairan
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The book Landscape Design Basics can serve as a professional textbook for landscape professionals, students, and practitioners, as well as a popular book for general readers, systematically introducing the fundamentals of landscape design. 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, and more. The third part, using a logical decomposition of the four categories—space, surface, focal point, and accessories—systematically and clearly discusses the methods of landscape design, explaining the general design process and the basic expression of design solutions. Reading through the entire book can help readers establish a complete theoretical framework and knowledge system in landscape theory, learn the thinking logic of landscape design, and benefit from landscape planning and design practices at various levels and in various aspects.