ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the application of the elements of visual design as part of a comprehensive approach to teaching using some books. One of the basic things which landscape architecture students need when they enter their studies is to know how to understand the landscape as a whole. Young students entering landscape architecture programmes may have a varied range of knowledge, skills and understanding as a result of their high school education and their limited life experiences—from their home landscape, from holidays and maybe from travel in a gap year. A good way to start is by presenting the principles in a lecture as they are very graphical. Students of landscape architecture also need to be able to carry out their own research and build up the confidence to find out information from different sources to evaluate its quality as evidence of what they observe and to synthesize it into a holistic picture of the landscape.
