Student Book List
Please see below our recommended book list. Just click on the links or images and you will be taken to the book entry on Amazon.co.uk. Add the book to your basket and then click the back button on your browser to select any further books that you require.
Plan Graphics for the Landscape...
Tony Bertauski
This text was created to teach students in introductory landscape design basic drawing and drafting skills. Though computer graphic software and techniques are described, the bulk of the text teaches the materials and techniques used for drafting by hand.
Landscape Detailing: Enclosure
Michael Littlewood
This handbook covers walls (free-standing, screen and retaining), fences, gates, barriers and bollards. Each section begins with technical guidance notes on design and construction and then provides a list of points against which specifications can be checked. This is followed by a set of drawn-to-scale detail sheets, which can be traced for direct incorporation into a set of contract drawings. This book is designed to be of interest to landscape architects and contractors, architects, surveyors and students of landscape and architecture.
Residential Landscape Architecture:...
Booth
Written for courses in landscape design, this text is aimed at students who are beginning their design careers, as well as those currently practicing residential design. It provides the quality fundamentals of residential site design - exploring functional and artistic considerations.
The Planting Design Handbook
Nick Robinson, Jia-Hua Wu (Illustrator)
First published in 1992, this text is widely used on landscape architecture courses around the world. It examines the horticultural, ecological and aesthetic characteristics of plants, and discusses the structural and decorative roles of planting, spatial composition, species selection, planting plans and spacing, and the vital role of management. With its fresh look at aesthetic principles and its analysis of the design process, it reveals how a systematic approach can allow the greatest freedom for the creative imagination.
Spon's Landscape and External Works...
Davis Langdon & Everest (Editor)
This work offers a comprehensive source of detailed landscape and external works costs. It covers all the items to be found in hard and soft landscape contracts, and is therefore is aimed at quantity surveyors, landscape architects, and contractors. This edition has been organized in accordance with the Common Arrangement and SMM7. Every rate has been reworked and recalculated by Davis Langdon & Everest, in conjunction with Sam Hassall, one of the UK's leading landscape surveying and cost management experts. A full index and list of manufacturers and suppliers gives easy reference to all items.
From Concept to Form in Landscape Design
Grant W. Reid
Use this toolbox of techniques to bridge the distance between concept and form. New approaches, featuring the use of naturalism as a form determinant, ease the transition from general concepts to specific physical shapes and detailed organization of spaces.
Gardens Are for People
Thomas D. Church, Grace Hall, Michael Laurie
This text contains the essence of Thomas Church's design philosophy, as well as practical advice. It is illustrated by site plans and photographs of some of the 2000 gardens that Church designed during his career. Called "the last great traditional designer and the first great modern designer", Church was one of the central figures in the development of the modern Californian garden. For the first time, West Coast designers based their work not on imitation of East Coast traditions, but on climatic, landscape and lifestyle characteristics unique to California and the West. Church viewed the garden as a logical extension of the house, with one extending naturally into the other.
Landscape Detailing: Structures
Michael Littlewood
This volume covers structures (pergolas, arches, arbours, decks, shelters, information signs) and furniture (bollards, seats, litter bins, tables). Each section begins with technical guidance notes on design and construction. A list of points against which specifications can be checked and a set of drawn-to-scale detail sheets are included.
Landscape Detailing: Surfaces
Michael Littlewood
Covers surfaces including foundations, kerbs and paving - vehicular and pedestrian, steps and ramps, margins and edges, kerbs and wheelstops and drainage channels. The book is a reference for landscape designers.
