Landscape Art & Architecture

How two New Yorkers led the transformation of a derelict elevated railway into a grand--and beloved--open space The High Line, a new park atop ...

Today, there is a growing demand for designed landscapes - from public parks to back gardens - to be not only beautiful and functional, but also su...

Revel in the extraordinary expressions of water-inspired architecture known as AquaTekture! Discover the vision and construction challenges imagina...

This is the first book to address how to design therapeutic gardens. Landscape architect Daniel Winterbottom and occupational therapist Amy Wagenfe...

A manual, monograph, and call to action, Toward an Urban Ecology points to the future of landscape architecture's role in making resilient, sustain...

This book is specifically designed for those interested in creating natural swimming pools. It covers all stages, from understanding the system, ma...

From Frederick Law Olmsted to Richard Neutra, Michelle Obama to our neighbors, Americans throughout history have revealed something of themselves -...

Based upon the best-selling book Architectural Detailing by Edward Allen and Patrick Rand, Landscape Architectural Detailing applies the same organ...

John Dixon Hunt introduces PWP Landscape Architecture: Building Ideas with a discussion of how we read landscapes and, hence, how they are designed...

The more intensively we exploit the urban and rural landscape, the greater the demands we place on our environment and what it can provide. Demogra...

Detailing makes a landscape unique, and a landscape architect outstanding. Featuring many of the world''s most highly acclaimed landscape architect...

The reconstructed Berliner Schloss in the heart of the German capital is both a monument of Baroque architecture and a vital new cultural building ...

Landscape architects rely heavily on graphics to communicate content and ideas. From large-scale master plans and strategic visions, to design conc...

This book chronicles and analyses the role of the perspective within the history and evolution of landscape architecture and design. The first par...

Pete Nelson, the worlds best-known treehouse designer and builder, wants to put readers in treeshis motto is, get er done, so you can BE in a TREE....

Reducing Boundaries offers a new perspective on an often under researched topic: what is the upper and middle classes perception of their own secur...

Richmond Park is the largest Royal Park in London, covering an area of 2,500 acres. From its heights there is an uninterrupted view of St Pauls Cat...

Manchesters Philips Park was the worlds first designed public park in an industrial city, but it is more than the celebration of a single park. Unl...

Our great British parks are one of the finest legacies of the Victorian age. Designed and bequeathed to the masses as part of a movement encouragin...

Islamic gardens are enchanting places. Just the names of some of the most beautiful gardens in the world - the Alhambra, the Generalife, the Shali...