Book Description
Singularly highlights landscape architectural elements with clear design principles! Designed to be used as a helpful resource by individuals beginning their careers, Basic Elements of Landscape Architectural Design presents the thoughts and key design theories fundamental to landscape architecture in simple words and illustrations. Still available from Waveland Press, this highly regarded sourcebook offers the vocabulary, significance, characteristics, potential uses, and design guidelines for landform, plant materials, buildings, pavement, site structures, and water in landscape architectural design. It will help your students overcome common mistakes and misconceptions typical in the early phases of their design career and will heighten their understanding and awareness of the major physical components of the outdoor environment.
Customer Reviews:
a good foundational book.......2007-02-22
This text is a good beginning one for landscape architectural studies- the first chapter on earthwork is not the latest technology, but valuable nonetheless to understand how it was done before GIS and more sophisticated equipment and methods.
Book Description
Beautiful gardens for millions of time-crunched homeowners.
Inspiring: How to create and maintain a standout front yard.
Comprehensive: lawns, flowers, vines, edibles, trees, and shrubs.
Practical: essential tools and resources to get the job done.
80 step-by-step projects.
200 timesaving and weather-related tips.
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful and easy.......2006-11-05
For a beginner gardener as I am it was a joy to have bought this book. Very well illustrated. In fact you see so well the gardens'ideas that reading the book is just a complement to help you plant your garden. Well written and very clear. True to its title: step-by-step. I am glad I bought it and I do recommend it. It makes possible to have a dream garden in your house.
Great Gardening Book.......2005-05-19
Being new at gardening, I found this book to be a wonderful reference book. It lays flat for easy reference and contains great illustrations and information for the beginner and the more experienced. Contains information on lawns, trees, flowers, and more.
Customer Reviews:
good starter.......2007-05-31
The book could use a bit more detail in the instructions. If you've seen his show(s), or had some art instruction, you'll have a better understanding of the technique and what he's talking about & be fine. Someone starting from scratch may have a few questions, but will be able to figure it out or contact Jerry on his web site. Photos are clear. The paintings he's demonstrating in the book are chosen from TV or DVD's/videos he has available. I'd suggest buying the books & DVD's together as they are a great compliment to each other. Jerry is an accomplished artist and a wonderful teacher. There's always something to learn from him and he's always willing to share the tricks of the trade to help make his students better artists.
Great Beginners Book.......2007-05-19
This is a great beginners book that gradually exposes you to painting techniques. Its amazing what you can do with this book. I recommend it highly!
Painting Basics.......2007-01-08
After watching Jerry Yarnell's TV show a few times on PBS, they stopped showing it. I wanted more from Mr. Yarnell and found he has written several books. The books are clear and informative and the pictorials are great.
This Book is NOT Basic.......2007-01-08
Way too difficult for beginners due to a lack of specific instructions.
Outstanding!.......2006-04-19
I am a big Jerry Yarnell fan. He is an excellent teacher and it really shows in his instructional books. I had the good fortune to attend one of his workshops, and really learned a lot. I expect to be able to continue to learn from these books.
From what I can tell, the books do not have to be followed in a specific order. I have the first four volumes in the series. What I plan to do is to work on the techniques presented in this first volume and at that point, I'll just pick paintings from his other books that I like.
The paintings are selected to help you develop specific techniques that will be of good general use and he gives step by step instructions and includes color photographs of the paintings at each stage to give you an idea of what each step should look like.
He gives instructions for mixing the colors required at each step too. He doesn't give an exact formula for the colors since brands and grades of paints vary so much. What he does do is to give you the colors and a relative idea of how much to use of each. You then can develop your eye by mixing until the color looks right. It doesn't take long to figure it out and it is much better for developing your color mixing skills than a rote formula.
Jerry also uses a limited number of colors in his palette. This really help with developing you color mixing skills too. He tell you what brushes you need and how to use them as well.
If there is another set of instructional books that is better than these, I haven't found them.
If you go to his web site [...] and click on Books, you can see slide shows of the paintings that are taught in each book. This will give you a better feel for which ones you want to try.
Book Description
America's parks-and their architectural companion, the log cabin-hold a powerful grip on our imagination. Harkening back to a simpler time, these rustic structures serve as a reminder of America's frontier spirit, and serve as a popular source of inspiration for contemporary architecture, in everything from simple vacation homes to the mansion "lodges" favored by today's wealthy elites. This classic three-volume survey, first published in 1938 by the National Park Service, details in photographs and measured drawings the rich legacy of America's park structures. In over 500 illustrations, Park and Recreation Structures documents picnic tables, dams, drinking fountains, trail signs, storage sheds, bridges, boathouses, lodges, and inns from the glory days of park construction. Reproduced in its entirety in a single volume, this book will serve as a source of ideas, details, and imagery for architects, landscapists, gardeners, and anyone interested in America's national parks.
Customer Reviews:
Great "Catalogue" of American Log Construction.......2005-11-18
The golden era of handcrafted log construction was 1920's and 30's, and this wonderful book details, in project after project, the structures that had been built in America's National and State parks during that time. Cabins, lodges, visitor centers, even bridges, drinking fountains, fire pits, outhouses, and log benches-they all get photos, drawings, and commentary in this encyclopedic work.
Albert H. Good wrote several books as Architectural Consultant for the National Park Service, and 3 of them are bound into one huge book here--it is the size of a library dictionary. More than 600 pages, and countless photos and drawings, the publisher used high quality paper and library binding. It feels like an expensive book!
For me, the drawings are the gems. B&W photos must be difficult to scan and reproduce from the original, and some of the photos in this book, while generally very good, have suffered just a little. But this is nit picking.
This book is a treasurehouse of handcrafted stone and log structures--these were craftsmen working at the peak of their abilities. And the designs are superb-they have the human scale, the warmth, and the charm that current architects could learn from. Great log homes don't need to be 4000 square feet, or have 20-foot ceilings. This book is proof of that.
Save up and buy this book. Use it when designing your own log home or cabin. Share it with friends. I have been building log homes, and writing about log home construction, for 23 years and each time I browse this book I learn something new.
Robert W. Chambers, author, Log Construction Manual
great reference.......2005-09-25
This is a beautiful book and an excellent reference. It is a reprint of the three volume set published in 1938. "Patterns From the Golden Age" is a cheaper reprint of the same thing - but the quality of the photos in this version is well worth the extra money.
Buildings and sites of the WPA and CCC era........1999-08-08
This is the best source book for the architectural projects and site concepts produced during the 1930's for the Works Projects Administration (WPA)and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Albert Good's narrative provides insight into the motivating forces that employed thousands of out of work architects, engineers, skilled craftsmen and laborers to produce projects that now form the core of our national and state park systems.
Most of the work produced under this program is enjoyed by today's tourist as the premier and most desirable destinations for outdoor experiences. Few new park facilities can duplicate the environments created by these dedicated workers on superbly selected and planned sites during the darkest days of the "Great Depression". The hand crafted, and sometimes intricately decorated, architecture and natural landscape planning evolved from talented designers and often unskilled laborers who lavished their work with love that only the lack of deadlines, the motivation of an empty stomach, a belief in the benefit for their fellow countrymen and the need to build with on site materials can produce. These buildings are truly "green buildings" before the term and recent politically correct notion became fasionable.
Any architect, engineer, conservation and environmental supporter or depression era historian can benefit from this publication which brings one in contact with a nation faced with financial ruin and the effect on the hopes and spirit of its citizens. It demonstrates that when given a chance, the work ethic that has and hopefully will always exist in this nation produces fantastic results..........that we can roll up our shirt sleeves and pull on our boots to produce marvelous and lasting accomplishments even under great adversity.
I recommend this book not just for the professionals whose vocations it represents but also for those who wish to understand the mountains that can be moved with a little sweat and perseverance.
Book Description
In his stunning debut book, Bold Visions for the Garden, Richard W. Hartlage encourages readers to embrace gardening as the best of all the creative arts-an endeavor that includes color, form, texture, sound, sequence, and place. Sympathetic to the limitations of time, space, and budget that most gardeners face, Hartlage explains how planning and planting well, together with the willingness to be daring, helps the gardener to achieve great drama in the garden. For example, one doesn't need a big-budget garden sculpture to make a statement. Instead, painting exterior walls cobalt can mirror the sky, or an ochre color will provide welcoming warmth-a strategy that requires only a willingness to be bold and to use a little elbow grease. Or, think big-instead of planting small plants in a small space, plant giant reed grass to tower overhead, making your visitors feel pleasantly dwarfed by such fanfare. Like an artist sharing his secrets for painting a dramatic scene on a small canvas, Hartlage offers gardeners tips on the use of contrast, scale, and light. His inspiring insights and suggestions, together with his beautiful photographs, will provide both beginning and seasoned gardeners with the resolve and the tools they need to achieve new visions of their own.
Customer Reviews:
Bold Visions for the Garden.......2001-11-28
Fabulous and fun! Also practical for those who aren't already pros. Mr. Hartlage uses beautiful pictures to show how anyone can creat a spectacular garden of their own. This is not just a pretty coffee table book but also very useful for every gardener.
Book Description
Animation:Master is an affordable, powerful 3D program easy enough to be used by students, new 3D artists, and hobbyists, yet powerful enough for professional animators. Learning how to use A:M is made easier with the completely updated Animation:Master: A Complete Guide. This is the only book dedicated to A:M and it is the best resource for all levels of users. For those new to 3D graphics or A:M, you'll learn the skills and fundamentals of 3D and discover how to master this incredibly powerful, low-cost program. If you're an experienced user, you'll find insightful tips and explore the newest features. Using the wide variety of hands-on tutorials throughout the book, you'll put 3D concepts into action while learning the ins-and-outs of A;M. Beginning with a review of the interface, you'll progress through modeling basics, character modeling and rigging, to expressions, animation, lighting, and surfacing. From there you'll move into the more advanced topics of special effects, including hair, cloth, and flocks, and finish up with rendering and compositing. So whether you're a new user or an experienced power user, this is the one resource you'll need to go beyond the basics with Animation:Master!
Customer Reviews:
The first steps into spline modeling..........2007-03-08
Animation Master is an excellent and affordable entry into spline modeling. Unlike other, more expensive, animation programs, the Animation Master from Hash is fairly intuitive. This book is an excellent tool as an introduction and snapshot of the continuously refined Animation Master program. The next step is joining the community online, which I have yet to do.
The only real tutorial book for AM.......2007-01-19
Yes, the lack of glossy photos & impressive models is a little disappointing but the accompanying CD makes up for it. The book is well written, easy to follow, & entertaining. It covers subjects not in the original 2002 book. I especially like the chapter on inorganic modelling - very useful.
If you want to learn how to use Animation Master - you need this book.
Complete Tutorial on the Latest Edition.......2006-06-10
A:M has been growing in size and power since it's first introduction a bit over twenty years ago. It's now a full blown 3D annimation package. Because it was first designed for pretty low powered systems (when other packages ran on workstations) it has a legacy of being easy to use.
In terms of an annimation package easy is a relative term. In doing annimation you still have a lot creation to do. Unlike a simple picture, you have to program everything that you see on the screen. This includes not only the people and monsters but every blade of grass.
The book is basically tutorial in nature. That is, it describes what you want to construct and then leads you through the process of making it appear on your screen. As with most software books this one starts out with very simple things, but by the time you finish you're worked with virtuality of the addresses. As far as I can tell, this is the one book available on the A:Mstucture
A:M quite inexpensive for a full blown annimation software system. A:M has a suggested list price of $299 (Amazon's price is $229).
Book Description
Offers an overview of fundamental carpentry and masonry skills for readers to apply to their own outdoor projects, from pathways to arbors.
Expert tips in easy-to-understand language.
Book Description
Chemical pesticides were first formulated during the Second World War as agents of chemical warfare. Since then, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and other toxic agents have been developed for use in agriculture and home gardening to kill unwanted weeds, insects and diseases. Today we are looking for ways to clean these agrichemicals from our water, fisheries, wildlife species, soils - and our bodies. How to Get Your Lawn and Garden Off Drugs is all you need to take that important first step.
This inspiring guide covers all regions of North America, and demonstrates how lawns and gardens can flourish by replacing synthetic chemicals with balanced organic alternatives. It contains clear instructions on how to properly choose, feed, water, aerate and cut your lawn and garden plants, plus a glossary and an updated list of organic suppliers.
Books:
- Beads of the World: A Collector's Guide With Price Reference
- Botanical Illustration Course: With the Eden Project
- Botanical Illustration Course: With the Eden Project
- Botanical Illustration Course: With the Eden Project
- Business Process Improvement: The Breakthrough Strategy for Total Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness
- Cartier Collection: Collective Work (Collection)
- Charles Bargue Et Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course
- Charles Bargue Et Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course
- Como Dibujar Anime Vol. 1: El Diseno de Personajes / How to Draw Anime and Game Characters Vol. 1: Basics for Beginners and Beyond/ Spanish Edition
- Digital Image Processing (2nd Edition)
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Ideas That Shaped Buildings
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Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications
Microclimatic Landscape Design: Creating Thermal Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors, Second Edition
