Botanica Atlanta - Landscape Design, Construction & Maintenance

Light in design is an often overlooked technique in landscape design.  Good architects and landscape designers use this element to get further mileage out of the standard color – texture – form trio.  Here are some examples, taken in 2008

    Photos: Cloud Q. Conrad              

at the Getty Museum in LA.  Imagine that this solar pageant will change a seemingly infinite number of times in a day as the sun and clouds make their way across the sky.  In anticipation of that, observing a chosen design theme with consistency will give interesting ways to measure the changing drama of natural light as it encounters manmade objects in the landscape.  Here careful attention has been paid to the visitor's experience of light in the landscape and the visitor is able to appreciate light and time in the design through the interplay of light and shadow on the buildings, terraces and patios.

See how the regulated geometric forms of the shadows resonate with the grid-like pattern of the terrace trees?  It’s brilliant how this architecture creates its own gardens of light.  Do you know of some more great examples of light as a design element in the Atlanta landscape?