Landscape

Five books every new landscape student should have

• 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

 

To Design Landscape sets out a distinctively practical philosophy of design, in accessible format. Based on the notion that landscape design is a form-based craft addressing environmental processes and utility, Dee establishes a framework for approaching such craft with modesty and ingenuity, using the concept of "esthetics of thrift".

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Garden design began in West Asia and spread through Europe. This book tells how, in the British Isles, it flourished to an extraordinary degree. Following the historical method in Tom Turner’s books on Asian Gardens (2010) and European Gardens (2011), British Gardens uses almost 1000 color photographs, plans and style diagrams to provide a word and image history of garden design. Individual chapters cover the Celtic, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic, Arts and Crafts, Modern and Postmodern periods. Additional information about the gardens in the book is available on the Gardenvisit.com website, which the author edits http://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/british_gardens_companion

Click here to read a short interview with Tom Turner
 

Reviews of the previous edition:

'The book provides a good introduction to many of the recent theories on patterns in nature, and would provide an excellent starting point for further research.' - Landscape Design

'Bell includes recent concepts and provides detailed descriptions of up-to-date design methods … this ecologically insightful book raises critical issues.' - Architectural Review

'This is a wide-ranging book which seeks to synthesize knowledge across disciplines as diverse as geomorphology, ecology, psychology and philosophical esthetics.' - Landscape Research

For more information about Simon Bell's new book click here

 Sustainable Landscape Planning takes as its starting point the need to examine critically the case for landscape reconnection. It looks at alleged disconnections and their supposed consequences. It explores the arguments about reconnecting the natural and human elements of whole landscapes.

Five books for the new Landscape Architect handpicked by the Routledge Landscape Editor

• Landscape Architect’s Pocketbook, Siobhan Vernon, Nicola Garmory, Rachel Tennant
• Meaning in Landscape Architecture and Gardens, Marc Treib
• Representing Landscapes, Nadia Amoroso
• Landscape Detailing Vol 1-4, Michael Littlewood
• To Design Landscape, Catherine Dee

This year’s special focus is on water related issues.

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.
 

The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies provides up-to-date critical reviews of state of the art perspectives across this multifaceted field, embracing disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, cultural studies, geography, landscape planning, landscape architecture, countryside management, forestry, heritage studies, ecology, and fine art. It serves as an invaluable point of reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students alike, engaging in the field of landscape studies.
 

Nadia Amoroso is the Founder and Creative Director of DataAppealTM, a data-design visualization company. She also teaches design studio and visual communications at the University of Toronto. She holds and has held a number of international academic and administrative positions including Lawrence Halprin Fellow at Cornell University, the Garvan Chair Visiting Professor, and Associate Dean. She specializes in visual representation, analog and digital graphics, and architectural and landscape architectural design. 

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)
 

The top 15 best selling Landscape books published by Routledge. For more comprehensive list of what books are availble in this area see our catalogs

We are delighted to announce that RIBA Publishing books are now available via Routledge, for customers outside of the UK and Ireland. 

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

Take a sneaky peak at the first (uncorrected!) proofs of Tom Turner's new book British Gardens  - due out in April 2013 http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415518789/