10 BOOKS TO READ IN YOUR FIRST

YEAR OF LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTURE

1- Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture (Tim Waterman)

The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture provides an introduction to the key elements of
this broad field. It serves as a guide to the many specialisations complimentary to landscape
architecture, such as landscape management and planning, and urban design. This book
explains the process of designing for sites, including historical precedent, evolving philosophies,
and how a project moves from concept to design to realization.

2- Destination Art (Amy Dempsey)

Destination Art remains the only illustrated guide to modern and contemporary art sites outside
the confines of museums and galleries. Revised and updated in paperback, the book profiles
more than 200 of the most important contemporary art sites around the world, including four new
sites in Tennessee, Norway, China and Scotland. From massive land and environmental works to
extensive sculpture parks, some of the most crucial and popular international artists are profiled,
from Henri Matisse, Anoni Gaudi and Constantin Brancusi to James Turrell, Antony Gormley and
Olafur Eliasson.

3- Architectural Model Making (Nick Dunn)

The physical scale model is often cited as an important tool of communication for architecture
students and practitioners alike. Through description of the use of different models in different
contexts, this book provides a guide to how and why models are used, what they are used for,
and, furthermore, how they relate to architecture education.

4- Landscape Graphics (Grant W. Reid)

Landscape Graphics is the architects ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in
landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more
sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design
process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming,
perspective drawing, section elevations and more. It also features carefully sequenced exercises,
a complete file of graphic symbols for sections and perspectives, and a handy appendix of
conversions and equivalents.

5- Theory in Landscape Architecture (Simon Swaffield)

Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a
single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific

connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political
structures, Theory in Landscape Architecture reminds readers that the discipline of landscape
architecture can be both practical and formally challenging. Covering the past fifty years of theory,
this primer makes an important contribution to a students emerging professional ethics.

6- Drawing for Urban Design (Lorraine Farrelly)

Explores a range of ways to represent the city, from freehand sketching to the sophisticated
interactive computer model of the city of the future. This book provides an introduction to the
techniques while explaining the processes associated with describing and designing urban
environments.

7- Drawing for Landscape Architecture Sketch to Screen to Site (Edward Hutchison)

This essential publication reintroduces the importance of learning to see by hand, to visualize
large-scale design schemes and explain them through drawing, before using the digital tools that
are so crucial to efficient and cost-effective building solutions. Combining traditional drawing
techniques with those from CAD rendering, in nine chapters, Drawing for Landscape
Architecture guides practitioners from their very first impression of a site, through concept and
schematic design and client presentation to construction and site drawings, concluding with two
case studies that show the final result. Just as hand-drawing returns to design courses around
the world, this welcome publication celebrates the best aspects of traditional techniques while
incorporating them into todays digital design methods.

8- Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture(Catherine Dee)

Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture provides an original, visual approach to the study of
landscape architecture by creating a spatial morphology based on use and experience of
landscapes. It explores aesthetic, spatial and experiential concepts by providing a structure
through which landscapes can be understood and conceived in design. Fabric is the integrated
structure of whole landscapes, while form refers to the components that make up this fabric.
Together form and fabric create a morphology of landscape useful for the development of visualspatial design thinking and awareness. This book is intended as both an introduction to the
discipline for students of landscape architecture, architecture and planning, and a source of
continuing interest for more experienced environmental designers.

9- The Architectural Drawing Course (Mo Zell)

This practical foundation course in architectural design offers key advice on the principles,
practice and techniques of the subject. Dealing with much more than just the technical aspects of
drawing, it introduces the reader to the visual language of architecture, encouraging them to think
spatially and question the built environment. All architecture students, and anyone interested in
the creative side of architecture, will find this book an invaluable tool and reference. (13.07)

10- The Planting Design Handbook (Nick Robinson)

Nick Robinsons The Planting Design Handbook has been widely used as a definitive text on
landscape architecture courses throughout the world. It examines the horticultural, ecological and
aesthetic characteristics of plants, discusses the structural and decorative roles of planting,
spatial composition, species selection, planting plans and spacing, and the vital role of
management. With its fresh look at aesthetic principles and its analysis of the design process, it
reveals how a systematic approach can allow the greatest freedom for the creative imagination.