Astrid Zimmermann-Trapp Libros

"Planning Landscape" is a practical guide for landscape architects, focusing on the interplay between design elements and planning typologies such as parks and sports facilities. It offers clear, detailed information on designing open spaces, with an introductory chapter on basic principles and an appendix with essential dimensions and norms.

<em>Constructing Landscape</em> is a systematic introduction to technical and constructional open space planning, with all the relevant topics, from the most common materials and surfaces to the construction of open space elements and the use of plants. For landscape architects and architects it is an indispensable guide to correct and professional execution planning as well as to preparing solid and well-thought-out requests for proposal.<em> Constructing Landscape</em> is divided into two sections, Materials and Surfaces and Building Construction and Building Elements. The first section provides an overview of the various building materials of landscape architecture and their specific characteristics. It also explains the qualities of surfaces and the different approaches to treating them. The second section begins with an introductory chapter explaining the principles of statics, the connections of load-bearing elements, and the various approaches to anchoring building compo-nents and supporting structures. The subsequent chapters use drawings and text to present the constructional principles and techniques associated with the various building elements. Each chapter concludes with a collection of sample projects, illustrated with photographs and technical drawings.