Title: Constructing landscape :
Authors: Zimmermann, Astrid.
Date: 2009
Publisher: Birkhäuser,
Physical description: 533 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm
Language: English
LC classification: S
Abstract: "Constructing Landscape 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."--Jacket.
Contents: Materials -- The principles of loadbearing structures -- Structural elements and building methods.
Subject headings (LCSH): Landscape architecture--Equipment and supplies.; Landscape architecture--Equipment.; Landscape architecture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Landscape architecture--Practice.; Landscape architecture.