Foundations of Landscape Architecture: Integrating Form and Space Using the Language of Site Design

386 Pages·2011·44.82 MB·English

by  Norman Booth

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FOUNDATIONS
OF
Landscape
Architecture
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FOUNDATIONS
OF
Landscape
Architecture
INTEGRATING FORM AND SPACE
USING THE LANGUAGE OF SITE DESIGN
Norman K. Booth
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Booth, Norman K
Foundations of landscape architecture : integrating form and space using the language of site design /
Norman Booth.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978–0–470–63505–6 (pbk.), ISBN 978–1–118–12727–8 (ebk.); ISBN 978–1–118–12728–5
(ebk); ISBN 978–1–118–12945–6 (ebk); ISBN 978–1–118–12946–3 (ebk); ISBN 978–1–118–
12947–0 (ebk)
1. Landscape architecture. I. Title.
SB472.B564 2012
712—dc23
2011018370
Printed in the United States of America
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Th is book is dedicated to Professor Emeritus George Curry and the late Professor George Earle,
of the Department of Landscape Architecture, SUNY College of Environmental Science and
Forestry at Syracuse University. Th e design knowledge and skills they taught me in a sophomore
design class have been ever present throughout my career and have served as a foundation for
my own teaching. I owe my love of landscape architecture and a broader appreciation
of the arts to both. Th is book would not be possible without them.
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Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Foundational Concepts 1
CHAPTER 1 Landscape Form 1
CHAPTER 2 Landscape Space 29
Orthogonal Forms 61
CHAPTER 3 The Straight Line 61
CHAPTER 4 The Square 75
CHAPTER 5 The Rectangle 97
CHAPTER 6 The Grid 107
CHAPTER 7 Symmetry 139
CHAPTER 8 Asymmetry 169
Angular Forms 189
CHAPTER 9 The Diagonal 189
CHAPTER 10 The Triangle 207
CHAPTER 11 The Polygon 237
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C o n t e n t s
Circular Forms 257
CHAPTER 12 The Arc 257
CHAPTER 13 The Circle 275
CHAPTER 14 The Oval 301
CHAPTER 15 The Curve 319
Other Forms 341
CHAPTER 16 The Organic 341
Credits 361
Index 363
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