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Drawing on decades of professional practice and teaching experience, Steven L. Cantor's Professional and Practical Considerations for Landscape Design explains the field of landscape architecture, outlining with authority how to turn drawings of designs into creative, purposeful, and striking landscapes and landforms in today's world. This comprehensive guide consists of everything a young professional might encounter from conception through final project
archiving, ensuring readers have both the tools necessary to keep up with advancements in the field and the practical business knowledge to build life-long partnerships. Each of the book's concise chapters
emphasize a specific aspect of landscape architecture practice, from the administration of designs for contracts, areas of practice, human resources, marketing, construction materials, sustainability and ethics. Each chapter is written in a style that best suits the material. Alongside detailed definitions and practical "do's and don'ts" are 30 complex sample problems ranging in difficulty for both individuals and groups. An array of original photographs and clear examples in both black and
white and color articulate standards and inspire future possibilities, featuring the work of Vicky Chan, founder of Avoid Obvious Architects, and Richard Alomar, Associate Professor of Landscape
Architecture at Rutgers and co-founder of New York Urban Sketchers. By combining the author's unique depth of knowledge with real-world case studies from America, Asia, and Europe, Professional and Practical Considerations for Landscape Design is an up-to-date resource for every level of reader, from students in landscape architecture programs to professionals working in public or private practice, engineering, consulting, or contracting.
Drawing on decades of professional practice and teaching experience, Steven L. Cantor's Professional and Practical Considerations for Landscape Design explains the field of landscape architecture, outlining with authority how to turn drawings of designs into creative, purposeful, and striking landscapes and landforms in today's world. This comprehensive guide consists of everything a young professional might encounter from conception through final project
archiving, ensuring readers have both the tools necessary to keep up with advancements in the field and the practical business knowledge to build life-long partnerships. Each of the book's concise chapters
emphasize a specific aspect of landscape architecture practice, from the administration of designs for contracts, areas of practice, human resources, marketing, construction materials, sustainability and ethics. Each chapter is written in a style that best suits the material. Alongside detailed definitions and practical "do's and don'ts" are 30 complex sample problems ranging in difficulty for both individuals and groups. An array of original photographs and clear examples in both black and
white and color articulate standards and inspire future possibilities, featuring the work of Vicky Chan, founder of Avoid Obvious Architects, and Richard Alomar, Associate Professor of Landscape
Architecture at Rutgers and co-founder of New York Urban Sketchers. By combining the author's unique depth of knowledge with real-world case studies from America, Asia, and Europe, Professional and Practical Considerations for Landscape Design is an up-to-date resource for every level of reader, from students in landscape architecture programs to professionals working in public or private practice, engineering, consulting, or contracting.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1:
Introduction
Definitions
Chapter 2:
Part 1: Project Management
Part 2: Billing, Office Standards and the Metric System
Chapter 3:
Contracts
Chapter 4:
Part 1: Marketing
Part 2: Human Resources
Chapter 5:
Part 1: Surveys
Part 2: Conceptual, Schematic, Design Development and Master Plan
Drawings
Part 3: Construction Drawings
Part 4: Planting Drawings
Chapter 6:
Part 1: Building Code
Part 2: Specifications
Part 3: Cost Estimate
Chapter 7: Areas of Practice
Part 1: Site Planning
Part 2: Residential Design
Part 3: Public Works
Part 4: Roof Gardens and Green Roofs
Part 5: Environmental Assessment
Part 6: International Work
Chapter 8: Construction Materials and Details
Part 1: Pavements, Steps and Walls
Part 2: Lighting, Irrigation and Water Features
Part 3: Metal, Wood, Plastics, and Site Furniture
Part 4: Site Inspections
Chapter 9: Ethics and Sustainability
Part 1: Ethics
Part 2: Sustainability
Chapter 10: References
Index
Steven L. Cantor, RLA, ASLA, has worked in private practice for
firms in New York City and Atlanta. He taught at the University of
Georgia School of Environmental Design in Athens, the University of
Colorado in Boulder, the New York Botanical Garden, and Anhalt
University in Bernburg, Germany. He has written about landscape
architecture for over thirty years in books, journals, magazines,
and websites.
Vicky Chan, architect, founded Avoid Obvious Architects in 2012, a
firm focused on combining art with green technology. His projects
have been exhibited in 37 cities and have won 38 design awards.
Starting in 2020, Chan is President of the American Institute of
Architects Hong Kong Chapter.
Richard Alomar, RLA, is the Associate Director of the Office of
Urban Extension and Engagement and an Associate Professor in the
Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ.
"Overall, Landscape Design is perfect as a study guide for the
landscape architecture registration exam, and especially for those
planning to establish their own firms for good, common sense
practices. I highly recommend the instructional Professional and
Practical Considerations for Landscape Design for students,
emerging professionals, and those of us already working within the
field as the fully comprehensive go-to resource and convenient
guidebook for successful practice. I will definitely keep this
superb handbook close." -- Linda Velazquez, Greenroofs.com
"There are very few publications that provide the information that
Cantor so comprehensively covers in this book. It is one thing to
advocate for particular methods of practice, but it's another to
suggest alternatives and contingencies in a such a remarkably
well-organized manner. Cantor's book is made for designers young
and old." -- Susannah Drake, FASLA, AIA, Founding Principal of
DLANDstudio
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