Landscape architects and designers use a variety of guidelines and tools to create attractive, functional ... form, color, texture and visual weight. These are known as the elements of design.

Within neighborhoods and cities, buildings have a role to play in the urban landscape ... form continued following function. Fortunately, 21st-century architects have learned that most design ...

Three recent landscape ... Design Studio took a different tack with the design of a campus for the visual computing company NVIDIA in Santa Clara. “We wanted to move away from an ornamental ...

Brett Robinson, founder and creative director of Melbourne-based landscape architecture ... with the Bauhaus principle of form follows function. Every garden we design must work for the people ...

Gerstle also mentions the importance of having some juxtaposition in your landscape design. “With your plants, you can try to create visual tension or contrast between form and shape ...

Yet, as Doug Tallamy, author of “Bringing Nature Home” and “The Living Landscape” has so succinctly ... Human aesthetics need not be sacrificed to function here: all our native viburnums ...