The Landscape Lighting Book

Richly illustrated and fully updated practical guidance on every aspect of landscape lighting LED technology offers a new light source in landscape design. In the process, it causes huge changes to the configuration of lighting fixtures. The Third Edition of The Landscape Lighting Book includes information to help guide readers on the use of LED technology. With extensive new art and photographs and changes throughout the book, this edition offers expert guidance and advice on the theory, design process, project needs, and techniques for all types of elements in landscape lighting. This new edition stresses the importance of communication with all members of a project team, planning for guidance as changes occur, and making sure that maintenance is done regularly to keep a lighting system functioning. It covers ideas and techniques required to create a wide range of landscape lighting effects, from soft through dramatic. Lighting, a relatively new part of landscape design, continues to evolve, and this important new edition: Provides a guideline for understanding LED technology now, and what to look for in the future Includes in-depth information on planning, documenting, commissioning, and maintaining projects Offers a wealth of new photographs and illustrations demonstrating examples and varying approaches to the multitude of issues in landscape spaces Features updated information on mesopic vision and control strategies, with a new approach to renderings that gives designers and clients a real view of how their landscape can look at night Covers changes in materials and finishes, and takes a fresh look at lamps and fixtures available to make gardens live at night The Landscape Lighting Book, Third Edition is an indispensable resource for lighting designers, landscape architects, architects, interior designers, developers, illuminating engineers, and urban planners, as well as for contractors, design-build professionals, and students in these fields.

Prefaces xii Acknowledgements xiv I. PROJECT DEVELOPMENT 1.Assessing Project Needs 1 2.Vision and Perception of Light 13 3.Luminous Composition 19 4.The Design Process:Documenting and Installing Landscape Lighting 33 5.Follow–up Work: Record Documents and Project Maintenance 65 II. MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY 85 6. Light Sources 87 7. Light Fixtures 105 8. Corrosion, Materials, and Finishes 137 9.Controls 155 10.Wiring 169 III.APPLICATIONS 193 11.Residential Spaces 195 12. Public Spaces 205 13. Atria 211 IV. ELEMENTS OF DESIGN 219 14. Plant Materials 221 15.Garden Evolution: Changes That Affect 16. Sculptures, Architectural Structures, and Signage 267 17.Walkways and Stairs 281 18.Building Elevation Lighting 297 19.Water Features 309 APPENDIX 321 Documents 322 Lighting Manufacturers Directory 349 Bibliography 357 INDEX 361

JANET LENNOX MOYER, IALD, COLD, is founder of The Landscape Lighting Resource (www.tllr.org) in Troy, New York. Started to promote quality landscape lighting design and installation, LLR offers educational events to help people interested in lighting become more proficient and expand their practice. She gives out the Janet Lennox Moyer Award at the national conference of the Association of Outdoor Lighting Professionals each year. Ms. Moyer practices design throughout the world and frequently writes and speaks on the subject.