Landscape category: 1155 books
Visualization in Landscape and Environmental Planning
Technology and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
This major reference presents the challenges, issues and directions of computer-based visualization of the natural and built environment and the role of such visualization in landscape and environmental planning. It offers a uniquely systematic approach to the potential of visualization and the writers...
by Nick Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Since the first edition was published in 1992, Nick Robinson's The Planting Design Handbook has been widely used as a definitive text on landscape architecture courses throughout the world. It remains one of the few titles written by a practicing landscape architect and educator who is also a horticulturalist...
Reimagining Industrial Sites
Changing Histories and Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The discourse around derelict, former industrial and military sites has grown in recent years. This interest is not only theoretical, and landscape professionals are taking new approaches to the design and development of these sites. This book examines the varied ways in which the histories and qualities...
The Crosby Arboretum
A Sustainable Regional Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Since its genesis in 1980, Crosby Arboretum in southern Mississippi has attracted international recognition for its contributions to architecture, biology, and landscape design. Now owned and operated by Mississippi State University, Crosby is the first fully realized ecologically designed arboretum...
Designing the Sustainable Site, Enhanced Edition
Integrated Design Strategies for Small Scale Sites and Residential Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The full-color, practical guide to designing sustainable residential landscapes and small-scale sites
Enhanced with three video walk-throughs of case studies, Designing the Sustainable Site: Integrated Design Strategies for Small-Scale Sites and Residential Landscapes Enhanced eBook gives site...
To Heal the Earth
Selected Writings Of Ian L. McHarg
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Ian L. McHarg's landmark book Design with Nature changed the face of landscape architecture and planning by promoting the idea that the design of human settlements should be based on ecological principles. McHarg was one of the earliest and minfluential proponents of the notion that an understanding...
Landscape Construction
Volume 3: Earth and Water Retaining Structures
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Landscape Construction Volume 1 deals with elements of landscape construction which are required to provide enclosure, privacy, demarcation of land, shelter and security. The elements discussed include free-standing brick and stone walls, fences, gates and railings. Fittings and finishes are also...
Codify
Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture provides a series of essays that explore what it means to use, modify and create computational tools in a contemporary design environment. Landscape architecture has a long history of innovation in the areas of computation and...
by Chip Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This elegant Fourth Edition of Chip Sullivan's classic Drawing the Landscape shows how to use drawing as a path towards understanding the natural and built environment. It offers guidance for tapping into and exploring personal creative potential and helps readers master the essential principles,...
Representing Landscapes
Analogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The fourth book in Nadia Amoroso‘s Representing Landscapes series, this text focuses on traditional methods of visual representation in landscape architectural education. Building on from the previous titles in the series, which look at digital and hybrid techniques, Representing Landscapes: Analogue...
Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context
Volume 3 Geo-Architecture Blending into Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book explores the concept of geo-architecture by analyzing the ways architectures are related to the local geography, including mingling or contrasting with surrounding landscape, adapting to mountainous or aquatic terrain, and selection of construction materials. Architectures build with such...
Immigrant Pastoral
Midwestern Landscapes and Mexican-American Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Immigrant Pastoral examines the growth of new Mexican heritage communities in the Midwest through the physical form of their cities and neighborhoods. The landscapes of these New Communities contrast with nearby small cities that are home to longstanding Mexican-American communities, where different...
Your Rad Garden
Freedom, Purpose, and Meaning in Your Backyard
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Create a rad garden that reflects your personal lifestyle!
This book is for independent thinkers who love beauty and nature and want to enhance their outdoor living experience.
You’ll discover that architectural function, beauty, and sustainability can all be achieved together. “Your...
The Artful Garden
Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
**“I want to put the mystery back into the heart of garden design, where it needs to be. It’s what lures you in through the gate, keeps you moving through the landscape, and fills you with excitement along the way. The sense of mystery is what turns a mere display of plants, paths, and ornaments...