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The Landscape Lighting Book
Second Edition
by Janet Lennox Moyer

The Landscape Lighting Book is a richly illustrated and up-to-date source of practical guidance and hard-to-find technical data on all aspects of landscape lighting.

The Landscape Lighting Book shows you how to achieve a wide range of beautiful and dramatic lighting effects. You'll get expert guidance and advice on the theory, design process, project needs, and techniques of landscape lighting. You'll find prizewinning projects designed by the author and other landscape lighting professionals throughout the United States. Plus, hundreds of diagrams, drawings, and black-and-white and full-color photographs illuminate topics and provide insights into new and creative ways that lighting can transform landscapes.

The Landscape Lighting Book covers the latest technologies and equipment and features new chapters on installation, documentation, and seasonal lighting.

Features:

  • Guidelines for preparing lighting drawings, control and transformer charts, symbol lists, and other technical specifications
  • Design strategies for avoiding potential conflicts between plantings and landscape lighting equipment
  • Accurate performance characteristics of all lighting materials, finishes, and fixtures
  • The best ways to locate fixtures, set appropriate light levels, and perform preventive system maintenance
  • The special lighting needs of plants in indoor environments
  • A complete listing of fixtures, controls, lamps, and accessories manufacturers and vendors

Contents

  1. Project Development
    1. Assessing Project Needs
    2. Vision and Perception of Light
    3. Luminous Composition
    4. The Design Process: Documenting and Installing Landscape Lighting
    5. Follow-up Work: Record Documents and Project Maintenance

  2. Materials and Technology
    1. Light Sources
    2. Light Fixtures
    3. Corrosion, Materials, and Finishes
    4. Controls
    5. Wiring

  3. Applications
    1. Residential
    2. Public Spaces
    3. Atria

  4. Elements of Design
    1. Plant Materials
    2. Garden Evolution: Changes That Affect Lighting
    3. Sculpture, Architectural Structures, and Signage
    4. Pathways, Walkways, and Stairs
    5. Building or Elevation Lighting
    6. Water Features

Index

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The Landscape Lighting Book
Second Edition
by Janet Lennox Moyer

2005 • 402 pages • $109.00 + shipping
Texas residents please add 6.75 % sales tax

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