Timeless Landscape Design The Four-part Master Plan

Timeless Landscape Design The Four-Part Master Plan Hugh Dargan, ASLA and Mary Palmer Dargan, ASLA In Timeless Landscape Design: The Four-Part Master Plan, renowned landscape architects Hugh and Mary Palmer Dargan share the secret to creating an unforgettable landscape with the "Four-Part Master Plan"-a unique method they've perfected over the past two-and-a-half decades of creating award-winning gardens and landscapes for clients. The Dargans share a blend of specific design techniques and practical advice on how to achieve the sophisticated look of a professionally designed landscape on any size and type of property. The four-part plan includes: The approach and arrival sequence The hub The perimeter Passages to destinations Examples of specific design treatments are beautifully illustrated with scores of color photographs taken from their own archives, plus landscape plans from historic gardens around the world that have provided inspiration to the authors, and before and after examples of the authors' award-winning work. Learn how to apply this unique master plan that gives homeowners a simple and systematic means of planning their gardens. The most important ingredients of a powerful landscape are usually not plants, flowers, buildings, or trees. The key to success lies in the basic tools of visual art: the four art elements (line, color, form, and texture) and the broader principles of design such as proportion, scale, and focalization. All gardens that have stood the test of time convey the power these tools hold over the human imagination. Crafting a four-part master plan depends on their skillful application-a lifelong pursuit. Thefollowing is a small taste of what these tools are and how they work on the land.Dargan, Mary Palmer is the author of 'Timeless Landscape Design The Four-part Master Plan', published 2006 under ISBN 9780941711852 and ISBN 0941711854.