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   5 Books for New Landscape Architecture Students

   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
   
    

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   LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK -  To Design Landscape

   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".

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

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   5 books for Design Studio Modules

   Five books for Design Studio modules hand picked by the Routledge Landscape Editor

   • Form and Fabric In Landscape Architecture, Catherine Dee
   • Representing Landscapes, Nadia Amoroso
   • To Design Landscape, Catherine Dee
   • Overlooking the Visual, Kathryn Moore
   • On Landscape, Susan Herrington
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   Representing Landscapes (March 2012)

   The choice of medium for visualizing an idea is something that faces all students of landscape architecture and urban design, and each medium and style option that you select will influence how your idea is seen and understood. Responding to demand from her students, Nadia Amoroso has compiled successful and eye-catching drawings using various drawing styles and techniques to create this book of drawing techniques for landscape architects to follow and - more importantly - to be inspired by. More than twenty respected institutions have help to bring together the very best of visual representation of ideas, the most powerful, expressive and successful images. Professors from these institutions provide critical and descriptive commentaries, explaining the impact of using different media to represent the same landscape.
    

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   Elements of Visual Design

   What makes a visually appealing landscape? How can the design and use of a landscape be harmonised? These are just some of the questions tackled in this refreshing approach to the subject, where the author explains a range of design principles.

   This new edition includes revised and updated text that will link to other areas of research and disciplines such as aesthetic philosophy and psychology. A third of the photographs have been replaced with new photographs showing better and more recent examples and also reflecting landscape in a wider range of countries.
    

6. 

   To Design Landscape

   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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   Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture

   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.

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   Captured Landscape by Kate Baker

   This book discusses the continuing relevance of enclosed gardens to contemporary architecture by describing some of the greatest and most influential historical and contemporary examples. The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place set apart from the wider terrain where architecture, architectural elements and landscape meet. By its nature it is ambiguous. Is it an outdoor room, or is it captured landscape?

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