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Landscape Architecture Books
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Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 648 ratings — published 1969
Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.22 — 255 ratings — published 1997
Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.30 — 50 ratings — published 2011
Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards (Wiley Graphic Standards)
by (shelved 15 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 62 ratings — published 2006
Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.22 — 215 ratings — published 2002
The Planting Design Handbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published 1992
The Landscape of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.21 — 126 ratings — published 1975
Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 843 ratings — published 2015
Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.62 — 421 ratings — published 1975
Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
by (shelved 11 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 3.65 — 62 ratings — published 2002
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,373 ratings — published 1961
The Landscape Urbanism Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 3.83 — 144 ratings — published 2006
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 50 ratings — published 2010
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 10 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,499 ratings — published 1977
Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 3.72 — 79 ratings — published 2001
Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.07 — 125 ratings — published 1999
Site Engineering for Landscape Architects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 3.86 — 56 ratings — published 1985
The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 3.62 — 47 ratings — published 2009
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,068 ratings — published 1999
Language of Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.02 — 93 ratings — published 1998
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.44 — 81 ratings — published 1996
Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Land Planning and Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 3.75 — 67 ratings — published 1961
Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture: A Visual Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.43 — 42 ratings — published 2001
Constructing Landscape: Materials, Techniques, Structural Components (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.54 — 39 ratings — published 2008
Residential Landscape Architecture: Design Process for the Private Residence (6th Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 186 ratings — published 1991
Detail in Contemporary Landscape Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 48 ratings — published 2008
The Granite Garden: Urban Nature And Human Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.19 — 100 ratings — published 1984
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,045 ratings — published 1949
Landscape Architecture: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 3.81 — 27 ratings — published 2014
30:30 Landscape Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published 2015
Illustrated History of Landscape Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 33 ratings — published 2010
Planting: A New Perspective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.34 — 449 ratings — published 2013
Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 3.68 — 28 ratings — published 1971
Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,222 ratings — published 2011
Phyto Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.32 — 28 ratings — published 2015
Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 3.78 — 32 ratings — published 2000
Gardens Are for People (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.28 — 47 ratings — published 1955
Plan Graphics for the Landscape Designer: With Section-Elevation And Computer Graphics (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 35 ratings — published 2002
Projective Ecologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.15 — 26 ratings — published 2013
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.33 — 934 ratings — published 1980
The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 135 ratings — published 1980
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,620 ratings — published 1993
Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 3.65 — 51 ratings — published 1996
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,999 ratings — published 1962
Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.12 — 26 ratings — published
From Concept to Form: In Landscape Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 74 ratings — published 1993
The Course of Landscape Architecture: A History of our Designs on the Natural World, from Prehistory to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 2014
Site Planning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.16 — 189 ratings — published 1962
Ecological Urbanism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.17 — 108 ratings — published
The Sustainable Sites Handbook: A Complete Guide to the Principles, Strategies, and Best Practices for Sustainable Landscapes (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design)
by (shelved 5 times as landscape-architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 19 ratings — published 2011
“The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo sapiens, the arts of garden and landscape design probably spread to Europe from West Asia.”
― British Gardens: History, philosophy and design
― British Gardens: History, philosophy and design
“An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills." — Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick Law Olmstead”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City












