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Landscape Architecture

Selected Books on Landscape Architecture

 

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Design

Landscape design: theory and application

Residential landscape architecture: design process for the private residence

Residential landscape sustainability: a checklist tool

Site Planning & Furnishings

Environmental planning for site development: a manual for sustainable local planning and design

Measuring landscapes: a planner's handbook

Site engineering for landscape architects

Site furnishings: a complete guide to the planning, selection and use of landscape furniture and amenities

Site planning

Site planning and design handbook

Details & Graphics 

Digital drawing for landscape architecture: contemporary techniques and tools for digital representation in site design

Drawing basics

Landscape graphics: plan, section, and perspective drawing of landscape spaces

Plan graphics for the landscape designer: with section-elevation and computer graphics

Construction + Materials

Alternative construction: contemporary natural building methods

Building construction illustrated

Constructing landscape: materials, techniques, structural components

Landscape architecture construction

Landscape construction

LEED reference guide for new construction & major renovations

Sustainable landscape construction: a guide to green building outdoors

Weathering and durability in landscape architecture: fundamentals, practices, and case studies

Wood in the landscape: a practical guide to specification and design

Cost Data

Landscape estimating methods

Standards

International environmental standards handbook

Landscape architectural graphic standards

Time-saver standards for landscape architecture: design and construction data

Time-saver standards for site planning

Time-saver standards: site construction details manual

Selected Books on Significant California Landscape Architects

 

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 Church, Thomas Dolliver, 1901-1978

Gardens are for people

Thomas Church, landscape architect: designing a modern California landscape

 Delaney, Topher

Ten landscapes

 Eckbo, Garrett, 1910-2000 

The Donnell and Eckbo gardens: modern Californian masterworks

Garrett Eckbo: a bibliography

Garrett Eckbo: modern landscapes for living

Landscape architecture: the profession in California, 1935-1940, and Telesis

Greene, Isabelle, 1934- 

Isabelle Greene: shaping place in the landscape

 Halprin, Lawrence, 1916- 

Lawrence Halprin [bibliography]

Lawrence Halprin: the choreography of private gardens

Notebooks, 1959-1971

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 

The California frontier, 1863-1865

Frederick Law Olmsted : essential texts

Frederick Law Olmsted : designing the American landscape

Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.; founder of landscape architecture in America

 Scott, Geraldine Knight, 1904-1989 

Geraldine Knight Scott, 1904-1989, a woman in landscape architecture in California, 1926-1989

 Sessions, Kate (Katherine) Olivia, 1857-1940

The Complete writings of Kate Sessions in California garden, 1909-1939

Kate Sessions history notes [bibliography of journal and newspaper articles by Sessions regarding the design of Balboa Park]

California garden [v.44 n.3, autumn 1953]

Kate Sessions: pioneer horticulturist

Yoch, Florence, 1890-1972 

Landscaping the American dream: the gardens and film sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972

Personal Edens: the gardens and film sets of Florence Yoch