Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for construction and human use, investigation of existing social, ecological, and soil conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of other interventions that will produce desired outcomes.

The scope of the profession is broad and can be subdivided into several sub-categories including professional or licensed landscape architects who are regulated by gov ...more

Landscape Architecture Books

Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site

Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards (Wiley Graphic Standards)

Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces

Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes

Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses

Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History

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Lists

A Clearing in the Distance by Witold Rybczynski

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Frederick Law Olmsted

24 books — 4 voters

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

Illustrated History of Landscape Design by Elizabeth Boults

Best of Landscape Architecture (nonfiction)

61 books — 9 voters

101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew Frederick

Jane Jacobs

17 books — 4 voters

Shaping the Postwar Landscape by Charles A Birnbaum

Landscape Architecture and Design

28 books — 4 voters

The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler

Urban/Urban Landscape (nonfiction)

94 books — 15 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Landscape Architecture”

“ It’s a tree in the strictest sense of the word — deciduous and woody enough it wasn’t some freakish weed, tall enough it wasn’t a shrub, but its scrawniness wasn’t really something I thought added a huge amount of curb appeal. ”
― Matt Puchalski, A Pandemic Gardening Journal

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“ A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a plot, connecting moments and incidents into a narrative. The narrative structure might be a simple chain of events with a beginning, middle, and end. It might be embellished with diversions, digressions, and picaresque twists, be accompanied by parallel ways (subplots), or deceptively fork into blind alleys like the alternative scenerios explored in a detective ...more ”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

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