Book: Opening Spaces. Design as Landscape Architecture

This is a 2003 book, but we have not previously reported on it. You can purchase it at Amazon here.

What resources are available for designing open spaces? How is it possible to exchange descriptions and concepts dealing with this? How can social and perceptual aspects be included and how can they be taken into account by the design process? What part is played by conditions deriving from nature? And what is more: how are locations and spaces created in the open air, how are paths routed and boundaries set, how are hard and soft materials used? This book identifies and analyses the elements that come together to create landscape architecture. The authors draw on their practical and theoretical experience to reveal the central components of design and the intellectual paths followed in the design process.