Product Description

A detailed guide to the art and science of designing, building and maintaining an outdoor lighting system. The book describes how to plan, design and build a project, reviews all technical components and materials, and discusses the specific issues of landscape design.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1842531 in Books
• Published on: 1992-11-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Review
“…a thoroughly comprehensive, detailed guide to all stages of designing, installing and maintaining the lighting of gardens and landscapes.” (The Lighting Journal, Nov/Dec 2005)

"...many bright ideas and extremely detailed practical advice...." (Town and Country, June 2006)

“…a thoroughly comprehensive, detailed guide to all stages of designing, installing and maintaining the lighting of gardens and landscapes.” (The Lighting Journal, Nov/Dec 2005)

"...many bright ideas and extremely detailed practical advice...." (Town and Country, June 2006)

From the Back Cover
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, Second Edition 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 visually stunning insights into new and creative ways that lighting can transform landscapes. This fully updated edition covers the latest technologies and equipment and features new chapters on installation, documentation, and seasonal lighting. You′ll also find:

• 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

Whether you′re seeking to sculpt a landscape with light or make an outdoor space useable at night, The Landscape Lighting Book, Second Edition shares all the technical and creative insights you′ll need to beautify your landscaping projects and consistently win client approval.

About the Author
JANET LENNOX MOYER, IALD, is the Design Principal at MSH Visual Planners, Brunswick, New York. She is an award-winning lighting designer, and she teaches landscape lighting design nationally and internationally.

Customer Reviews

The doyen of Landscape Lighting
Janet Moyer is the doyen of Landscape Lighting having spent the majority of her career on the West Coast and now teaching in New York discovering the effect of real winter and snow on landscape lighting!

This book is a comprehensive review of the practise of landscape lighting, not like many books a self congratulatory review of projects by the author. This book uses not just the authors work but uses many designers projects and design information and is laid out in chapters covering project and technical detail including many helpful drawings and sketches providing useful information for developing your own work.

In short this is an excellent example of what lighting design books should be, more than a bare list of technical information or a monograph on a particular designer but a comprehensive and helpful guide to specific aspects of lighting design.

Superb, comprehensive content
This book has provided all the detail I need to read and review the knowledge required to create fantastic light plans, through to the completion of a project.

Well written and illustrated, the author, authoritively conveys her detailed knowledge and experiences of lighting landscapes.

By far, the the most useful and comprehensive title on the subject.