| |
|
Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review
The MIT Press, 1994
Understanding modern garden design
+ Lagging behind architecture, but finally catching up.
This book is a rare find since it is a collection of articles which help explain the origins of the Modern Garden . Through it you can trace the formation of midcentury design . Through it you can learn what Modernist garden designers were reacting to in traditional garden design and architecture , ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller
E. P. Dutton, 1978
Control, Operate and Plan Your Spaceship
+ system enginnering for idiots
+ Not What I Expected But Hugely Satisfying
+ readable bucky
+ You need to read this book!
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory
Princeton Architectural Press, 1999
Not just for Landscape Architects
Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, proposes that when landscape is considered solely as a noun, its active role in the everyday lived experiences of humankind is lost. In this light, the volume seeks to recover landscape as not only a verb, "as process or ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Roberto Burle Marx: The Lyrical Landscape
Marta Iris Montero
University of California Press, 2001
Roberto Burle Marx: The Lyrical Landscape
This is a beauteful book about the life and work of this very important Landscape Architect. I am pleased to have it in my Collection.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Praxis, Journal of Writing and Building, Issue 4: Landscape
Amanda Reeser, Ashley Schafer
Praxis, Inc., 2002
PRAXIS
a fantastic review of relatively current landscaping projects and their importance in the urban and architectural realm!
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Case: Downsview Park Toronto (Case Series)
Prestel Publishing, 2002
In 1999, an international competition was held to select an urban park design for a former military base in Toronto. This 320-acre federal park will provide natural and formal garden environments, offering both passive and active recreation while promoting such themes as environmental sustainability, new ecologies, and the rich heritage of the site. Contributors to this volume analyze the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller
Lars Müller Publishers, 1999
Superb - organization, production, and editing
+ Exploring Buckyıs Archive is always a treat.
+ Your Private Sky
"Your Private Sky" is a must-have book for Bucky fans. In addition to presenting a wealth of new material from Fuller's archives it also arranges and presents Bucky's life and works in an innovative format that emphasizes the larger view of his work and the natural progression of his thoughts. ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Gardens Are For People, Third edition
Thomas D. Church, Grace Hall, ...
University of California Press, 1995
A classic
+ My grandfather was Thomas Church
I loved to read this book. After reading it you can clearly see how much Thomas Church influenced the modern designers. I really enojoyed reading the needs of the clients for their garden and then how Church solved and designed great gardens based on the clients'needs. A Classic.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape
Assistant Professor James Corner, Mr. Alex S. MacLean
Yale University Press, 2000
You've never seen anything like this
+ Thought provoking
+ A Must Have!
+ Excellent graphic representation of landscape documentation
+ Excellent for all
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Synergetics
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Macmillan Pub Co, 1982
An A + that he wouldn't have given to himself
+ A Beautiful Mind of Extraordinary Scope
+ The General Structure of the Universe
+ like spinach to a child, so good for you, so hard to read
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning
Wenche Dramstad, James D. Olson, ...
Island Press, 1996
Good refresher or introduction
Quick read if you want to avoid digging through peer-review journals to learn the same principles.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002
Insight Into Some of the Greatest Minds in the Profession
+ Good primer
I am a senior in Landscape Architecture and we have read several of the sections of this book in my design theory class before I decided to purchase. Excellent writing and theory, but as the previous reviewer said, It deal with complex issues and is not a light read. Must buy for any design ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002
Insight Into Some of the Greatest Minds in the Profession
+ Good primer
I am a senior in Landscape Architecture and we have read several of the sections of this book in my design theory class before I decided to purchase. Excellent writing and theory, but as the previous reviewer said, It deal with complex issues and is not a light read. Must buy for any design ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Synergetics
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Macmillan Pub Co, 1982
An A + that he wouldn't have given to himself
+ A Beautiful Mind of Extraordinary Scope
+ The General Structure of the Universe
+ like spinach to a child, so good for you, so hard to read
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Theory
Princeton Architectural Press, 1999
Not just for Landscape Architects
Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, proposes that when landscape is considered solely as a noun, its active role in the everyday lived experiences of humankind is lost. In this light, the volume seeks to recover landscape as not only a verb, "as process or ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
