Landscape category: 1155 books
Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings
A Handbook for Reproducing and Creating Authentic Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
It’s been more than forty years since the second edition of this landmark guide to the preservation and restoration of gardens and landscapes at historic sites was published.
Since the last edition came out, author Rudy Favretti, the nation’s foremost authority in this area, has worked...
Constructed Ecologies
Critical Reflections on Ecology with Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Today, designers are shifting the practice of landscape architecture towards the need for a more complex understanding of ecological science. Constructed Ecologies presents ecology as critical theory for design, and provides major ideas for design that are supported with solid and imaginative science.
In...
by Lynn M. Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
This new and updated edition of Landscaping with Native Plants of Minnesota combines the practicality of a field guide with all the basic information homeowners need to create an effective landscape design. The plant profiles section includes comprehensive descriptions of approximately 150 flowers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Through stories of diverse landscapes from around the world, this book captures human cultures and their land use practices in the environments they inhabit. The chapters cover topics from heritage in the 21st Century, appreciating and safeguarding values while facing challenges wrought by change.
This...
Home Outside
Creating the Landscape You Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Would you like to make your outdoor living spaces a beautiful, functional extension of your home?
Home Outside will give you all the big picture design concepts you need to create an outdoor paradise -- and all the step-by-step details to bring your vision to life.
Acclaimed landscape...
Urban Nature Conservation
Landscape Management in the Urban Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Urban nature conservation is a field that has grown rapidly in importance over the past 20 years and will continue to do so in the coming years as landscape ecology and greenspace planning become established disciplines. A widespread concern and interest in the wild plants and animal life found in...
Essay on Gardens
A Chapter in the French Picturesque
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning landscape,...
Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context
Volume 4 Symbolism and the Language of Geo-Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book approaches the concept of geo-architecture by analyzing the symbolic characters of architectures. It proves that the relationship between architecture and geography is not merely an embodiment of physical and functional demands but rather a formal expression of the materialization of culture....
by Jan Johnsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
“Gardentopia is that rare marriage of the art of landscaping and the technical knowledge of how to compose a landscape—boiled down to readily understood and easily executed actions. This book puts you in the driver’s seat and shows you how to chart the course to your own personal garden utopia.”...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation. From Photoshop mixed with digital maps, to hand drawings overlaid with photos and modelling combined with sketches, the possibilities are endless.
In this book, Amoroso curates over...
by Peter C Bosselmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regionsis about environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas. In decades to come, climate change will affect cities everywhere, but nowhere have the effects of climate change already been felt as strongly as in low-lying coastal...
The Frightened Land
Land, Landscape and Politics in South Africa in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
An investigation into the spatial politics of separation and division in South Africa, principally during the apartheid years, and the effects of these physical and conceptual barriers on the land. In contrast to the weight of literature focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, the focus of this book...
Designed for the Future
80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
In Designed for the Future, author Jared Green asks eighty of today's most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable future is possible? Their imaginative answers—covering...
The Florentine Villa
Architecture History Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day.
Defying...