Comments on: Hundred best books on landscape architecture

By: Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architecture — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:56:38 +0000

Thanks tom for sharing this useful link, architecture includes lots of creativity, technique, ideas and this books are surely being a great help.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:49:40 +0000

In reply to Lawrence. A list of the top ten best landscape architecture forums is a good idea - but I would not know what to put on the list!

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:05:40 +0000

Some interesting suggestions have come out of a post on ‘Linked In’: “What are the ten most important texts for a Landscape Architect/ Urban Planner?”

[ http://www.linkedin.com/groups/What-are-ten-most-important-36697.S.94525655?qid=0db0374d-e801-48ca-80ae-f1647d5403f5&trk=group_most_recent_rich-0-b-ttl&goback=%2Egmr_36697 ]

Now that LARCH-L has lost its pre-eminence as a forum, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find one’s way through all the information on offer. Perhaps it’s time for a “Hundred Best Online Landscape Forums”?

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:33:55 +0000

Thank you for the suggestion. I will re-read Spirn’s book but, in comparison with the Granite Garden in in view of the fascinating title, I remember being disappointed by the Language of Landscape when I first read it.

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:24:11 +0000

Ann Spirn’s more recent book “The Language of Landscape” seems an important theoretically-oriented text: it is an exploration of the ideas and concepts informing landscape design in a range of different environments. I’d advocate for its inclusion.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:38:09 +0000

Thanks Chris, I will add both books to the list

By: Chris Ellis

Chris Ellis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:55:52 +0000

I would recommend William Marsh’s book “Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications”. If Design with Nature provides a basic framework for regional design, Landscape Planning begins to fill in the details.

An excellent companion book that bridges environmental design into regional planning is Environmental Land Use Planning and Management by John Randolph. This book–also expanding on the work of Ian McHarg–covers the basic regulatory and management frameworks that directly affect landscape architecture practice.

Both of these books are helpful for teaching/learning about landscape planning.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:03:03 +0000

Thanks Gordon, I will re-read it! [Having done so, I have added the book to the list]

By: Gordon Evans

Gordon Evans — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:58:10 +0000

How about “Perennials and their garden habitats” by Richard Hansen and Friedrich Stahl? By taking a radically different approach to that of Gertrude Jekyll, backed up by decades of research at the trial gardens in Weihenstephan, Hansen and Stahl laid the framework for maintainable and sustainable herbaceous plantings on the grand scale in the public realm, at the same time completely redefining the aesthetic range of this kind of planting, taking it out of the “gardens of a golden afternoon” category and putting it in a far more challenging category.

By: Tom Turner

Tom Turner — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:22:10 +0000

Thanks Ryan, but I do not remember Residential Landscape Architecture making a useful contribution to design theory of practice. Other views welcome.