Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range of functional goals. However, the potential for plants in the landscape to elicit human involvement and provide mental stimulation and restoration is much less well understood.
This book meshes the art of planting design with an understanding of how humans respond to natural environments. Beginning with an understanding of human needs, preferences and responses to landscape, the author interprets the ways in which an understanding of the human-environment interaction can inform planting design. Many of the principles and techniques that may be used in planting design are beautifully illustrated in full colour with examples by leading landscape architects and designers from the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Asia, including:
Andrea Cochran, Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, San Francisco, CA
Design Workshop Inc.
Richard Hartlage, Land Morphology, Seattle, WA
Shunmyo Masuno, Japan Landscape Consultants Ltd., Yokohama
Piet Oudolf, Hummelo, The Netherlands
Melody Redekop, Vancouver
Christine Ten Eyck, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects Inc., Austin, TX
Kongjian Yu, Turenscape Ltd., Beijing.
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