Description
Colour Trilogy in Landscape Design is a book that introduces landscape design methods, starting from surveying and field assessment, to discussing multi-sensory approaches and then going on to lay out ways of building landscape architectural design ideas. The book is aimed at students majoring in landscape architecture, planning, and urban design; it shall serve as a handbook for landscape architectural design.
The book focuses on three core components of landscape: green space, water surface space and architectural elements in space. Accordingly, the book is organized, based on three basic colours, into three chapters with the following names:
BOOK OF GREEN, The green book, taking green space as the main theme
BOOK OF BLUE, The blue book, taking the water surface as the main theme
BOOK OF GREY, The grey book, taking the architectural elements in the space as the main theme
About the authors
Nguyen Thai Huyen
Nguyen received a master’s degree at Hanoi Architectural University. After graduating at Bordeaux School of Architecture (France), she went on to receive a practical master’s degree in Urban Design in 2005 and a PhD in Urban and Spatial Planning in 2011. She’s the Vice director of Institute of International Training and Cooperation Hanoi (Vietnam).
Viraj Chatterjee
Viraj is the founder and design principal of ONE Landscape — an international design studio that specializes in landscape architecture, urban design and planing with its head office in Hong Kong and regional studios in India, Thailand, and Vietnam. He teaches Landscape Architecture at the Hong Kong University and at the School of Planning and Architecture in Bhopal, India.
Bui Thi Thuy Ngoc
Having Graduated with honours in Landscape Architecture major from Hanoi Architectural University in 2016, she was recruited directly into the Master of Landscape program of the National University of Architecture and Landscape Bordeaux (ENSAP Bordeaux), France. At this university, she was the valedictorian at the Graduate Council of Master of Landscape.
