Elements of visual design in the landscape / Simon Bell.

By:

Bell, Simon, 1957 May 24- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020Edition: Third editionDescription: xii, 208 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780367024451 (hbk)
9780367024475 (pbk)

Subject(s):

Landscape design

DDC classification:

712 23 B.S.E

LOC classification:

SB472.45 .B45 2019

Contents:

Summary: What makes a visually appealing landscape? How can the design and use of a landscape be harmonized? In this significantly revised and updated third edition of Simon Bell's seminal text, he further explores the answers to these questions by interrogating a range of design principles, applications and ideas.Written for students, instructors and professionals, the book unveils a visual design vocabulary for anyone involved with landscape aesthetics including landscape architects, architects, planners, urban designers, landscape managers, foresters, geographers and ecologists. Structured around key design terms, which are explained and illustrated using an extensive range of examples from around the world, including North America, Europe and Asia, this book enables you to describe, debate and design the visual landscape. It starts with basic elements, before moving onto variable design components, and then the ways these elements are organized into compositions, in order to demonstrate how landscapes are created and how meanings and patterns are perceived within them.This new full colour edition contains over 240 images; an updated introduction; examples from China, Vietnam and central Asia; a chapter on how to read and understand visual design elements in the landscape; a teaching model for instructors; and expanded appendix materials including a glossary, references and further reading.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library B9	Faculty of Engineering & Technology (Architectural)	712 B.S.E (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00015085

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements. Preface. Foreword Dame Sylvia Crowe Introduction. 1. Basic Elements 2. Variables 3. Organization 4. Teaching reading the Landscape Glossary. References and Further Reading. Index

What makes a visually appealing landscape? How can the design and use of a landscape be harmonized? In this significantly revised and updated third edition of Simon Bell's seminal text, he further explores the answers to these questions by interrogating a range of design principles, applications and ideas.Written for students, instructors and professionals, the book unveils a visual design vocabulary for anyone involved with landscape aesthetics including landscape architects, architects, planners, urban designers, landscape managers, foresters, geographers and ecologists. Structured around key design terms, which are explained and illustrated using an extensive range of examples from around the world, including North America, Europe and Asia, this book enables you to describe, debate and design the visual landscape. It starts with basic elements, before moving onto variable design components, and then the ways these elements are organized into compositions, in order to demonstrate how landscapes are created and how meanings and patterns are perceived within them.This new full colour edition contains over 240 images; an updated introduction; examples from China, Vietnam and central Asia; a chapter on how to read and understand visual design elements in the landscape; a teaching model for instructors; and expanded appendix materials including a glossary, references and further reading.

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