Constructing Landscape: Materials, Techniques, Structural Components

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.Constructing Landscape is divided into two sections, Materials and Surfaces and Building Construction and Building Elements. The first section provides an overview of the various building materials of landscape architecture and their specific characteristics. The second section begins with an introductory chapter explaining the principles of statics, the connections of load-bearing elements, and the various approaches to anchoring building compo-nents and supporting structures.The subsequent chapters use drawings and text to present the constructional principles and techniques associated with the various building elements. 530 p: il, fot, color, Gràfics, 30x23, 5 cm, rústica ....