Landscape category: 1155 books
Foundations of Landscape Architecture
Integrating Form and Space Using the Language of Site Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
A visually engaging introduction to landscape architectural design
Landscape architectural design seeks to create environments that accommodate users' varying lifestyles and needs, incorporate cultural heritage, promote sustainability, and integrate functional requirements for optimal enjoyment....
Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies
Re-conceptualising design and making
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies explores how digital technologies are reshaping design and making in landscape architecture. While the potentials of digital technologies are well documented within landscape planning and visualisation, their application within design practice is far...
Landscape Analysis
Investigating the potentials of space and place
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
A key aspect of town planning, landscape planning and landscape architecture is to identify and then use the distinctive features and characteristics of space, place and landscape to achieve environmental quality. Landscape Analysis provides an introduction to the field both in theory and in practice....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
This unique book addresses the issue of sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture, dealing with professional practices of planners, designers and landscape managers. This second edition contains updated and new material reflecting developments during the last five years and comprehensively...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This inspiring and thought-provoking book explores how recent innovations in landscape architecture have uniquely positioned the practice to address complex issues and technologies that affect our built environment. The changing and expanding nature of "landscape" make it more important...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
On the heels of our groundbreaking books in landscape architecture, James Corner's Recovering Landscape and Charles Waldheim's Landscape Urbanism Reader, comes another essential reader, . Examining our shifting perceptions of nature and place in the context of environmental challenges and how these...
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934) was one of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn of the twentieth century, a moment when the amateur pursuit of gardening and the increasingly professionalized landscape design field were beginning to diverge. This intellectual...
Sustainable Landscape Management
Design, Construction, and Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF LANDSCAPES
A must-have guide for anyone working with landscapes, Sustainable Landscape Management eases the transition of the landscape industry into a new era of green consciousness. Filled with examples that illustrate best practices, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005
This unique book is about landscape, sustainability and the practices of the professions which plan, design and manage landscapes at many scales and in many locations; urban, suburban and rural. Despite the ubiquity of 'sustainability' as a concept, this is the first book to address the relationship...
Landscape Architecture Theory
An Ecological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
For decades, landscape architecture was driven solely by artistic sensibilities. But in these times of global change, the opportunity to reshape the world comes with a responsibility to consider how it can be resilient, fostering health and vitality for humans and nature. Landscape Architecture Theory...
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Making the Modern Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside the field know her name. Her work has been instrumental in the development of the late-twentieth-century design ethic, and her early years working with...
by Susan Herrington
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Phenomenology, Materiality, Cybernetics, Palimpsest, Cyborgs, Landscape Urbanism, Typology, Semiotics, Deconstruction - the minefield of theoretical ideas that students must navigate today can be utterly confusing, and how do these theories translate to the design studio?
Landscape Theory in...
Thinking about Landscape Architecture
Principles of a Design Profession for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
What is landscape architecture? Is it gardening, or science, or art? In this book, Bruce Sharky provides a complete overview of the discipline to provide those that are new to the subject with the foundations for future study and practice. The many varieties of landscape practice are discussed with...
Landscape as Infrastructure
A Base Primer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure—the contemporary alignment of the disciplines of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning— has become pressing. Predominant challenges facing urban regions and territories today—including...