From Concept to Form in Landscape Design

A unique resource for the discipline of landscape architecture, which has gained importance in recent years. We present to our readers the book “From Concept to Form in Landscape Design”, which will be essential for the beginning of landscape architecture and very helpful for designers who continue their professional life. This book explains every detail of the design, starting from the most important, uncertain concept stage where a character is given, by blending every stage in the process of form development in various styles with the fundamentals of design. One of the most challenging tasks for designers is to translate design concepts into distinct and detailed spatial organizations. The book “From Concept to Form in Landscape Design” offers very important and functional technologies that combine these transformations easily and effectively. This meticulously prepared resource, featuring impressive examples, questions both traditional and unusual methods of landscape design, providing unchangeable fundamentals for the preservation of design and their visually unexpressed forms.

This translation from the second edition includes;

• A chapter focusing on "Creative Thought Process" for recording design ideas,
• Dissected case studies demonstrating form development stages,
• Over a hundred detailed photographs visualizing different programs,
• Inspiring, nature-separated visuals for natural form inspiration,
• Design examples that can be used for the driving force of innovation
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The book “From Concept to Form in Landscape Design” provides a high-level and visually extensive presentation of the landscape transformation process, offering not only a learning experience for beginners but also a useful toolbox for professionally experienced designers. Full of valuable, accessible, and challenging inspirations for outdoor designers, Reid's book offers an ideal mix of inspiration and usability.

Grant W. Reid: He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and holds a Master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Reid is a licensed landscape architect in Kansas, USA, director of Grant Reid Design Office, and a retired faculty member from the Department of Landscape Architecture at Colorado State University. In 2005, he was awarded the “Outstanding Educator” award by the United Landscape Contractors of the American Educational Organization. Grant W. Reid Fasla