Detailing for Landscape Architects: Aesthetics, Function, Constructibility

Thomas R. Ryan · Edward Allen · Patrick J. Rand

Feb 2011 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

Based upon the best-selling book Architectural Detailing by Edward Allen and Patrick Rand, Landscape Architectural Detailing applies the same organization to the three major concerns of the landscape architecture detailer—function, constructability, and aesthetics. Richly illustrated, this book approaches landscape architecture detailing in a systematic manner and provides a framework for analyzing existing details and devising new ones. Landscape Architectural Detailing includes material on details related to aesthetics, water drainage and movement, structures, construction assemblies, sustainable resources, and more.

Ratings and reviews

This is a very good book for students studying landscape architecture or something who might be starting to understand the foundation of landscape detailing and construction. And that is it, good basics and traditional construction methods and nice illlustrations. Although the information is all there, I found it difficult to navigate because the chapters based on principals, for example, water protection, edge restraint...rather than retaining walls, paving etc. If you're looking innovative or creative details for inspiration, you'd better look elsewhere.

About the author

Tom R. Ryan, FASLA, is Principal of Ryan Associates, Landscape Architecture and Planning. He has more than thirty years of experience as a practicing landscape architect, and has taught in the landscape architecture departments at the University of Pennsylvania, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Edward Allen, FAIA, has been a member of the faculties at Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has frequently taught as a guest at other institutions across the United States over the past thirty years. He is also the best-selling coauthor of Fundamentals of Building Construction and The Architect's Studio Companion (both with Joseph Iano), Form and Forces (with Waclaw Zalewski), and Architectural Detailing (with Patrick Rand), all published by Wiley.

Patrick Rand, FAIA, is a Professor in the School of Architecture at North Carolina State University, where he teaches design studios, construction systems courses, and detailing seminars. He is coauthor of Architectural Detailing along with Edward Allen.