Roof Gardens: History, Design, and Construction (Norton Books for Architects & Designers)
Roof Gardens: History, Design, and Construction (Norton Books for Architects & Designers)
In the first comprehensive study published in English, respected landscape architect Theodore Osmundson provides the practical information professionals need to be able to include well-designed and well-constructed roof gardens in their projects.Roof Gardens covers site considerations, construction, design elements, and maintenance, as well as useful data and sources of supply and information. It presents a wealth of material, including typical sections and details of raised planters, walls,
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Rooftop and Terrace Gardens: A step-by-step guide to creating a modern and stylish space (Garden Style Guides)
Creating a terrace or rooftop paradiseThis city-dwellers guide to gardening shows how less is actually more, especially when it comes to creating one's own terrace and rooftop paradise. With ten sample gardens to choose from, including the plans for each, this practical guide describes every aspect of urban gardening-from design for roofs, screening and framing, gardening without soil to containers, furniture, and decorations and special effects. Full of overall and close-up photos of each garde
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Greenroofs.com Recommends the Standard of Roof Garden Design,
Greenroofs.com inaugurates our new Recommended Readings column with this highly informative reference standard for roof garden aficionados and design professionals alike. While Roof Gardens is clearly focused on the more traditional concept and practice of creating aesthetically pleasing garden space on flat roofs, Mr. Osmundson does address greenroof technology and the industry’s advances in the field. In particular, the German market is credited for testing and developing highly effective yet lightweight greenroof components and systems, and case studies are presented.
The veteran landscape architect shares his practical expertise of roof garden design, research and travel, and the richly illustrated hardcover book is full of photos, plans and construction details of sixty projects in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan. Roof Gardens also offers a historical perspective and advice on site considerations, design elements, maintenance, and appendices of useful data and sources of supply and information.
Rooftop landscape architecture promises to greatly beautify our environment by greening our buildings. We highly recommend this easy to understand, invaluable reference for anyone interested learning about in-depth roof garden design and construction, from homeowner to city planner.
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|green roofs,
This book could be written only by someone who has a large experience
and an enhusiastic approach not only to landscape architecture, but also to all elements needed to complete such project, as the roof garden. Roof gardens do not only mean “plants on the roof”, they are result of many other ‘bits and pieces’. For those who want to find a reason why and how to build or design an roof garden, and have a studious approach to what they intend do, this book is to be recomended by all means.
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|Greener on Top,
I bought this book thinking in learn everything about green roofs, and realy, this is the bible. The book have history informations, projects, practical construction information, project details, informations about benefits and possible problems. But there isnt specific scientific or data informations. It is a very complete introduction book in using green in the roofs, but i needed more…
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|Great little starter book.,
I just moved into a new apartment with a patio, and needed inspiration on how to decorate it, or make it more welcoming. This little book was very inspiring, it gets straight to the point, and you are left wanting to know more. Towards the end of the book, there are examples of layouts and, setups, to give you more concrete examples, which I thought was very helpful.
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