The Design Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together

By Bobbie Schwartz

This book is a collection of essays written from thirty-five years of experience by a gardener/designer. The first section is about the principles of landscape design and how they can be manipulated... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971631719
• ISBN13: 9780971631717
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Self
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

Extremely well written and a must-have for garden lovers and landscape designers!

As the former president of Association of Professional Landscape Designers and a member of Perennial Plant Association, Bobbie Schwartz summarized her over 30 years of gardening experience and over 20 years of professional landscape design experience in "The Design Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together." "...Good Design is based upon many components: aesthetics, function, plant knowledge, graphic presentation and above all, design principles. A solid understanding of these principles is the foundation for professional design, the base for problem solving in the designing process..." Bobbie Schwartz wrote. She continued to discuss useful design principles such as order, unity and rhythm, repetition, variety, balance and interconnection, massing, emphasis and scale, color, line, form, texture. She also discussed plant materials (bulbs, culinary plants, cultivars, ornamental grasses, see-through plants, foliage palette, etc), containers in the gardens, light and shadow, seasonal effects, soil preparation, etc. Bobbie Schwartz is also a talented lecturer and writer, she travels and lectures nationally for landscape associations and botanical gardens. "The Design Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together" is a compilation of articles she has written over the years for many publications. In a sense, it is a puzzle of excellent design articles that she put together. "The Design Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together" has 260 pages and many fine interior line drawings. It is extremely well written and a must-have for garden lovers and landscape designers! Gang Chen, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Author of "Planting Design Illustrated," "LEED GA Exam Guide," "Architectural Practice Simplified," and other books on various LEED exams, architecture, and landscape architecture