3 comments about The Landscape Lighting Book.

1. The Landscape Lighting book, by Janet Moyer, provides both an academic and practical level of landscaping lighting knowledge. Another good book, if you can find it, is the Ortho's book of How to Design and Install Outdoor Lighting.
   
   In comparison, the Ortho book has more colorful pictures and offers a very colorful education - I'd say, more or less at a good high school level. If you want more of college level introduction to landscape lighting - perhaps, to start a business or to broaden your knowledge, The Landscape Lighting book is the book for you.



2. The second edition of Janet Lennox Moyer's THE LANDSCAPE LIGHTING BOOK is an absolute necessity for everybody who works in landscape lighting or who is seriously interested in creating their own garden lighting. Ms Moyer has greatly revised and expanded the color plates and Chapter 4, "The Design Process - Documenting and Installing Landscape Lighting" as well as writing an entirely new Chapter 5 "Follow-up Work - Record Documents and Project Maintenance." These changes and additions and the many other updates make the new edition well worth the purchase price.
   
   First published in 1992, THE LANDSCAPE LIGHTING BOOK has served as the single and indispensable reference for the landscape lighting industry. It has offered all new landscape lighting practitioners guidance and provided an emerging industry the foundation necessary on which to build solid practice. While there is a wealth of other books that offer how-to help and publish pretty pictures, none of them even attempt to define and explain professional practice for the landscape lighting industry with Ms Moyer's authority and confidence.
   
   THE LANDSCAPE LIGHTING BOOK is not an easy book to read but it is well worth the effort. Once you understand the theory behind the short cuts and rules-of-thumb that other how to books offer, you are free to create your own. With the freedom you gain when you understand and can apply those fundamental principals and concepts to your landscape lighting, you become like the cook who ignores the printed recipe and creates a masterpiece of culinary art.



3. Still the best book for the professional. Invaluable resource for architects, landscape architects and landscape lighting designers. Broad and deep with plenty of technical information. I purchased this book in 1992 and I bought it again today (an electrician friend "lost" my original copy). A second edition (if planned) should include better information about transformer regulation (the ability of a low voltage lighting transformer to maintain 12v under load) and voltage drop (the dreaded decrease in voltage through the main supply cable) which are presented as formulae rather than actual measurements. Great photographs mostly of large scale projects. This book should be in every outdoor lighting designer's library.
   
   There is a second edition (Wiley 2005) of the book revised and updated by the author to reflect changes and improvements in techniques and equipment. The second edition is easily recognized by the illustrated four color cover; the original had an illustrated dust cover (missing from the last run of the first edition) by the cover itself was plain black.
   
   I have both editions and consider them a bargain in terms of concentrated relevant information.

1 comments about Pamphlet Architecture 28: Augmented Landscapes (Pamphlet Architecture).

1. I am pleased I added this title to my growing Pamphlet Architecture collection.
   
   In the best of meanings - this book is one that must be read from cover to cover to gain a very precious in-sight to the work of Laura Allen and Mark Smout. Immaculate drawings with detailed modelling combine with clear informative text that describes propositions that are at once both architectonic in mechanised terms whilst exhibiting kinetic and static sculptural intensities.
   
   Another small book that will give plentiful food for thought.

1 comments about Ready, Set, Practice: Elements of Landscape Architecture Professional Practice.

1. 
   As a Fellow of American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA), Bruce Sharky summarizes his many years of professional practice experience in "Ready, Set, Practice: Elements of Landscape Architecture Professional Practice."
   
   "Landscape architects practicing their profession today would barely recognize the profession as practiced by their nineteenth century forebears. Changes have come in education and training, development of skills and expertise, nature of practice, clientele, and professional values and attitudes..." Bruce Sharky writes. He continues to cover other essential aspects of landscape architecture practice, like terms used in professional offices, marketing strategies, ethics, contracts, preparing for LARE, etc.
   
   "Ready, Set, Practice: Elements of Landscape Architecture Professional Practice" includes 17 chapters: Introduction, Historic Perspective, Ethical Perspective and Professional Conduct, Forms of Professional Practice, Professional Continuun, Marketing Yourself, Professional Service, Organizational Perspectives, Starting a Small Design Firm, Business Marketing, Office Records, Life of a Project, Legal Issues, Professional Services Contracts, Technical Specifications, Contract Administration, Concluding Thoughts.
   
   "Ready, Set, Practice: Elements of Landscape Architecture Professional Practice" has 280 pages. It is a required reading for many landscape architecture programs, and a helpful guidebook for landscape architecture students and young design professionals.

No comments about Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective (Golf Architecture).

4 comments about Start & Run A Landscaping Business (Start & Run a).

1. I LOVE THIS BOOK. THE GUY WHO WROTE IT IS ALSO A LANDSCAPER. IF YOU ARE JUST STARTING OR WANT MORE INFO ON HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN THE LAWN SERVICE INDUSTRY , THIS IS THE BOOOK.



2. This was not what I thought, I was looking for somthing to help with my lanscape construction buisness.Can I return it?



3. Very good book on business side, not much information about landscaping itself. Very detailled information about opening a business. Costs, overhead costs, and initial capital.



4. This book was very well written with good balance between general business advice and more specific landscaping advice. I like that he does not mind going out on a limb to recommend specific brands and types of commercial lawn care equipment. He also includes a very handy CD filled with all sorts of sheets that can b personalized to your individual use. This book should become the authoritative guide to those looking to enter the business.

No comments about Avant Gardeners.

5 comments about How to Build Treehouses, Huts and Forts.

1. Have not got the chance to use it but it help me realize the difference between building with studs and live trees. It stress safety which is always good.



2. As a person who lived in a treehouse for 3 years, and was looking for a basic how-to book for a friend, I was disappointed--this is how-to down to how to buy 2x4s and pull nails. Not good for a skilled (or even somewhat skilled) adult, but this book is EXACTLY the sort of thing I would have wanted as a kid: all the basics, lots of advice, and would have been great for a mom- and/or dad-and-me project.



3. This book is extremely awesome and has a special section on stuff to build like snowforts, catapults, and cannons. The forts are really awesome. Great buy.



4. Great book if you want to build a treehouse or fort with your son (or sons) or if you just want to build one for your son (or sons) so he can have fun. Love this book and I HIGHLY recommend it.



5. Please don't buy this book unless you are comfortable reading vague plans and are an experienced carpenter. For all the other "Weekenders" like me who appreciate step-by-step instruction with diagrams/pictures, detailed information on techniques for their projects, discussion regarding suitable materials and tips on finishing the project (i.e. painting, etc.) PLEASE choose a book more suited to your skill level. ... I sense impending doom if I attempt to build his cover playhouse which, by the way, seems rather small at only 6'x6'. I think I will join the ranks and order Norm Abrams plans and video as well. DONT BUY THIS BOOK

2 comments about The City of To-morrow and Its Planning.

1. Le Corbusier has a dream for Paris, and it is a really interesting and unusual one. He creates a model for the cities, and his model has been living for almost a century. Although, you may reject to see it built, put aside living in it, it is a complete (well, almost complete) model. In this book, Le Corbusier presents his model city in detail from streets to building codes. He not only talks about the physical structure, but also the life style it would create. The mass of the city scares you, but you admire how he defends his vision, which is strong and bold, just like the book itself.



2. As an architecture student interested in the "art" of city planning, I found this book fascinating! Gives Le Corbusier's "radical" views and ideas plenty of substantive support. It is not only a book of design theory, but a book of urban history. Even if you're not too fond of Corbusier's work, this is a must-read for anyone interested in architecture!

4 comments about Architectural Graphic Standards Student Edition: An Abridgement of the 9th Edition.

1. I am a fourth year architecture student and I use this book every semester. I keep it with me at all times. It is the perfect design handbook. If you don't have it, You need it!



2. The book was in great condition as expected. It was delivered during the expected time frame, but it was later rather than sooner. I purchase frequently from amazon and I recieve consistently good service from them.



3. Loaded with tons of reference data all good for Architects.
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4. This book is one of the best reference books an architect will ever use. It contains the necessary information for the beginning and advanced architect. Inside the 568 pages in this book one will find from the most basic to the highly complex architectural graphics. The book provides reference for the various arcchitectural plans such as the floor plan, elevation and perspective drawings. No other reference material can surpass the amount of information provided in this excellent book.

3 comments about Anatomy of a Park: Essentials of Recreation Area Planning and Design.

1. This book may be a nice introduction for someone with no design background, but is not appropriate for landscape architects or site planners. The book's content primarily focuses on siting a park's programmatic elements for maximum engagement between users. It doesn't discuss commonly seen typologies or offer any interesting design solutions. Instead, it covers topics like where an amphitheater should be located in relation to a park's paths and roads (and, really? an amphitheater? So corny.). Anyone with experience in site design will likely find the concepts too basic and, even, unsophisticated.



2. This is a carefully crafted update of a classic primer that is essential reading for anyone engaged in park design or administration. The book would be especially useful to the new park commissioner who is looking for ways to add value to his/her park system through good design. The text is highly readable and is augmented by charming illustrations that makes for enjoyable reading of sometimes otherwise dull technical material.
   
   Jerrold Soesbe, FASLA



3. This is a good book for city planners who don't know a lot about park planning, but need to in order to develop well-used parks. Easy reading.