The Landscape Lighting Book

The Landscape Lighting Book, 2nd 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 prize-winning 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, 2nd 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 teaches landscape lighting design nationally and internationally.