RIBA Enterprises remains the exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland.
 

RIBA Publishing is one of the leading providers of high quality information for architects, built environment professionals and students around the world and is therefore an ideal complement to our own Routledge Architecture, Construction, Planning and Landscape lists. For full details of this distribution deal click here

See below for some of the key, new and forthcoming titles from RIBA Publishing.

• Representing Landscapes, Nadia Amoroso
• Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process 2nd edition, Simon Bell
• Form and Fabric, Catherine Dee
• Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens, Marc Treib
• Exploring the Boundaries of Landscape Architecture, Simon Bell, Ingrid Herlin, Richard Stiles

 

She is the author of The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles (Routledge, 2010) and Representing Landscapes: A Visual Collection of Landscape Architecture Drawings ( Routledge 2012)
 

1. What do you think is the most exciting development in landscape architecture at the moment?

There is a lot of exciting moves happening in landscape architecture. Landscape urbanism design is becoming quite popular in the course of study in many university studio settings. Also, the wave of digital visual representation is becoming more standard in the design communication and research aspects. Students are using PhotoShop and Illustrator to visualize environments in more photo-realistic ways. Some students are using more complex 3D programs such as Rhino with Grasshopper plugin to generate parametric landscape designs.

2. What are your 3 favourite landscape architecture books?

-Great City Parks

-Recovering Landscapes: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture

-Taking Measure across the American Landscape

3. What made you choose to have a career in landscape architecture, and what would you be doing now if you had gone down a different path?

I enjoyed designing spaces for people, and environmental design. I also enjoy geographical design and mapping.

Not quite sure what I would be doing, I have always had a desire to pursue a career in graphics, architecture, and a landscape since a young age, but I would probably speculate something in the field of health and fitness, if I did not pursue this path..

4. Sum up the profession in 3 words.

Art, environment, mapping

5. What advice would you give to aspiring authors in landscape architecture?

-understand what the trends in design, research , technology or visual representation are in landscape architecture, and see if they are fully covered in other publications, and discover what are the missing points in other publications. These gaps or un-tackled issues can be the main concept of your book.
 

Click here to read a short interview with Tom Turner
 

1. What do you think is the most exciting development in landscape architecture at the moment?

Design methods, having advanced from 2D to 3D, with help from CAD, is now advancing to 4D, with help from Geographical Information Systems. Landscape designs can look back to the distant past and forward to imagined futures.

2. What are your 3 favourite landscape architecture books?

Jellicoe, GA and S The Landscape of Man
Whyte, WH The Last Landscape
Hough, M City Form and Natural Process

3. What made you choose to have a career in landscape architecture, and what would you be doing now if you had gone down a different path?
A love of photography, painting and landscapes. I guess I would have been a town planner or architect if not a landscape architect
 

4. What advice would you give to aspiring landscape architects?

Don't wait for people to give you commissions: persuade the public, organisations and clients that they can and should have better designed landscapes

5. Sum up the profession in 3 words.

Sublime, Ridiculous, Fascinating

Not sure that this is the right book for your course?  then take a peak inside by following the link  here

1. What do you think is the most exciting development in landscape architecture at the moment?

Design methods, having advanced from 2D to 3D, with help from CAD, is now advancing to 4D, with help from Geographical Information Systems. Landscape designs can look back to the distant past and forward to imagined futures.

2. What are your 3 favourite landscape architecture books?

Jellicoe, GA and S The Landscape of Man
Whyte, WH The Last Landscape
Hough, M City Form and Natural Process

3. What made you choose to have a career in landscape architecture, and what would you be doing now if you had gone down a different path?
A love of photography, painting and landscapes. I guess I would have been a town planner or architect if not a landscape architect
 

4. What advice would you give to aspiring landscape architects?

Don't wait for people to give you commissions: persuade the public, organisations and clients that they can and should have better designed landscapes

5. Sum up the profession in 3 words.

Sublime, Ridiculous, Fascinating

 

For the duration of the Olympics and Paralympics we will be showcasing some of our new and key books and journals related to the Games.

Featured titles from Routledge

Disability in the Global Sport Arena

Ethics, Disability and Sports

Disability and Youth Sport

Disability, Sport and Society

News

Paralympics: Coaches in Wales behind disabled sport elite

By Natalie Grice - BBC news - 30 August 2012

For books on sport coaching click here

News

Authors of Dynamic Landscape are part of the design team for the Olympic 2012 Park Gardens

Professors James Hitchmough and Nigel Dunnett of the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield were appointed in 2008 as principal horticultural and planting design consultants for the Olympic Park, working with LDA/Hargreaves.

The 2012 gardens in the London Olympic Park are a spectacular celebration of contemporary horticulture and planting design, comprising half a mile of naturalistic perennial plantings. While the main focus in the Olympic Park as a whole is on native biodiversity and ecological approaches, the 2012 gardens explore the horticultural diversity of British gardens and take visitors on a tour of the biodiversity hotspots of the world that have been the major source of plants for UK gardeners over the past 600 years.

(extract taken from Nigel Dunnett's website - to read it in full click here)

Click here for more information about their bestselling book Dynamic Landscape,

News

London 2012 Olympics: A story of sustainable architecture
By Tierney Smith in Responding to Climate Change - 23rd July 2012

Routledge books in this area include ...

• Sustainable Olympic Design and Urban Development - Adrian Pitts and Hanwen Liao
• BREEAM and the Code for Sustainable Homes on the London 2012 Olympic Park
  Lessons from the Velodrome, Aquatics Centre and the Olympic and Paralympic Village - Neil Paterson, Adam Robinson and Robin Brylewski
• Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings - Paul Appleby
• New Directions in Sustainable Design - Edited by Adrian Parr and Michael Zaretsky
• Sustainable Buildings in Practice  - George Baird
• The Green Studio Handbook 2nd Edition - Alison Kwok and Walter Grondzik
   

A full range of sustainable architecture and environment books can be found in the latest catalogues

 A Bit of Fun ...

 Time Lapse Videos on You Tube

Samsung sponsor London Olympics 2012 - watch these three time lapsed videos of the main stadiums being built. http://youtu.be/0PpLB4nB9N8

ITN - Watch a spectacular timelapse video of London's Olympic Velodrome being built. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1lFG3dL-0

Telegraphtv - Unveiled in Kew Gardens to mark 100 days to go until London 2012 gets underway, time-lapse and aerial footage shows how five giant Olympic ring flowerbeds took shape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AAB8hLjNoE

Related book

Stadia
The Populous Design and Development Guide - Geraint John, Rod Sheard, Ben Vickery
 

In this fully updated and redesigned edition of the essential and long-established Stadia, the authors offer their unrivalled expertise to all professionals who commission, plan, design, and manage high-quality sports venues.

Ideas about the design and use of stadiums continue to evolve and this fifth edition includes the latest developments in the field. Including updated chapters on sustainability and masterplanning, new chapters on temporary sports buildings and branding, and new global case studies, Stadia 5th edition is the ultimate guide to stadium design, from local club buildings to international showpieces.

Other Featured titles

Featured Title
Planning Olympic Legacies
Transport Dreams and Urban Realities
By Eva Kassens-Noor
When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions and challenges this fundamental assertion of host cities who claim to have used the Olympic Games as a way to move forward their urban agendas
For more information about Planning Olympic Legacies click here

Other featured titles include:

• Olympic Cities, John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
• Understanding the Olympics, John Horne and Garry Whannel
• The Olympics: The Basics, Andy Miah and Beatriz Garcia
• Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
  Volume One: Making the Games, Vassil Girginov
• International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System, Jean-Loup Chappelet and Brenda Kubler -Mabbott

Olympic Stadium is in the running for Stirling prize gold
London 2012 Games venue makes unexpected appearance on list of architectural prize nominees
By Vanessa Thorpe - The Observer, Sunday 22 July 2012

For more detail on the RIBA Stirling Prize click here

Stirling Prize winners and London architecture books from Routledge

BEST SELLER
Will Alsop : The Noise
Tom Porter

James Stirling
Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture
Edited by Mark Crinson

BEST SELLER
Short Stories: London in Two-and-a Half Dimensions
CJ Lim and Ed Liu

London’s Contemporary Architecture 5th Edition
Ken Allinson

Architects and Architecture of London
Ken Allinson
 

The 2012 gardens in the London Olympic Park are a spectacular celebration of contemporary horticulture and planting design, comprising half a mile of naturalistic perennial plantings. While the main focus in the Olympic Park as a whole is on native biodiversity and ecological approaches, the 2012 gardens explore the horticultural diversity of British gardens and take visitors on a tour of the biodiversity hotspots of the world that have been the major source of plants for UK gardeners over the past 600 years.

(extract taken from Nigel Dunnett's website - to read it in full click here)

Click here for more information about their bestselling book Dynamic Landscape,
 

Nigel Dunnett and James Hitchmough have a wide experience of theory and practice in contemporary planting design in Europe, Norht America and Australia, and are leading academic researchers in the field of new sustainable landscape plantings. Both are based at the University of Sheffield.
 

Now in its 32nd edition, SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK 2013 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs.
 

For more inforamtion about the award click here