Saturday, January 25, 2014

By Eliza Mendoza


Landscape design is known to be an art that has existed for about three hundred years already and is still very popular even up until today. This art came into the picture when rich homeowners had a big amount of space wherein they did not know what to do with it. Because of this, artists were brought in and decided to add a little bit of design so that the vacant space will look nice.

Now the main things that the architects in this field would be doing would be making use of the things in the area and arrange them to make the entire area look beautiful. By adding some trees, flowers, lamps, and other things, one could turn a dull area into something splendid. Some would even put a fountain or a swimming pool in there.

It was only during the year of 1800 that the demand for landscape architects increased because of the increase in number of public parks. The government wanted these architects to make these public parks look nice because of the visitors. That is why eventually, this type of career line became rather popular among the creative people.

Nowadays, being a landscaping designer is actually a very profitable job for those who are creative and know how to play around with their artistic ideas. Good landscape designs are not only limited now to the wealthy individuals or the government officials anymore. As long as one has a garden or a yard, he may actually give it a nice look.

The best part about this is that nowadays, the price of this kind of architect is not that expensive as many have found ways to cut costs to get more customers. In fact, one may actually choose his own materials in order to cut down on costs. Of course he may also leave it up to the designer if he would want the end result to be really beautiful and splendid.

In this field of architecture, the main concept would be simple balance. When one would say balance, he means that in landscapes, the right and left side must always be balance in terms of the design while the center has to only have a little bit of decorations. If one is a designer here, then he must always take note of the concept of balance in order to produce beautiful works of art.

Now color and texture will also play an important role here because it is the thing that will most likely catch the eye. When it comes to color, color combination is extremely important because one cannot have contrasting colors in a garden or yard. Of course the texture of the decorations are important because it is what the people will be eyeballing.

Now probably the most important principle of landscape design that all designers would have to follow would be the big picture. A designer has to know how to look at the area as a whole and not just concentrate on this part or that part. He has to know how to visualize the land as a whole before going to the smaller details.




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