A national authority on this emerging field offers a comprehensive guide to the art and science of designing, erecting and maintaining an outdoor lighting system. Presents in-depth coverage on how to plan, design and build a project; reviews all technical components and materials; discusses specific issues of landscape design setting and its elements–plants, sculptures and structures, water features, etc. Packed with hundreds of detailed photos, sketches, plans and drawings.
Product Features
- Product Details: Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (September 29, 1992)
- Language: English, ISBN-10: 0471527262, ISBN-13: 978-0471527268
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches, Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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expert opinion Still the best book for the professional. Invaluable resource for architects, landscape architects and landscape lighting designers. Broad and deep with plenty of technical information. I purchased this book in 1992 and I bought it again today (an electrician friend “lost” my original copy). A second edition (if planned) should include better information about transformer regulation (the ability of a low voltage lighting transformer to maintain 12v under load) and voltage drop (the dreaded decrease in voltage through the main supply cable) which are presented as formulae rather than actual measurements. Great photographs mostly of large scale projects. This book should be in every outdoor lighting designer’s library.There is a second edition (Wiley 2005) of the book revised and updated by the author to reflect changes and improvements in techniques and equipment. The second edition is easily recognized by the illustrated four color cover; the original had an illustrated dust cover (missing from the last run of the first edition) by the cover itself was plain black.I have both editions and consider them a bargain in terms of concentrated relevant information.
Landscape Lighting 101 The Landscape Lighting book, by Janet Moyer, provides both an academic and practical level of landscaping lighting knowledge. Another good book, if you can find it, is the Ortho’s book of How to Design and Install Outdoor Lighting.In comparison, the Ortho book has more colorful pictures and offers a very colorful education – I’d say, more or less at a good high school level. If you want more of college level introduction to landscape lighting – perhaps, to start a business or to broaden your knowledge, The Landscape Lighting book is the book for you.
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