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Landscape Architecture Books by ASLA Members
Landscape architecture design and coffee table books—rich histories, incisive analyses, and inspiring ideas for built and natural environments.
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Accidental Wilderness
The Origins and Ecology of Toronto's Tommy Thompson Park / Walter H. Kehm (University of Toronto, 2020).
Anatomy of a Park
Essentials of Recreation Area Planning and Design / Donald J. Molnar (Long Grove, Illinois : Waveland Press Inc., 2015).
The Art of Landscape Detail
Fundamentals, Practices, and Case Studies / Niall Kirkwood (New York : Wiley & Sons, 1999).
Basic Elements of Landscape Architectural Design
Norman K. Booth (Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, 1990).
Becoming a Landscape Architect
A Guide to Careers in Design / Kelleann Foster (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2010).
Book of Landscape Gardening (1926)
(American Society of Landscape Architects Centennial Reprint) / F. A. Waugh; Library of American Landscape History. (Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press : in association with Library of American Landscape History, 2007).
Connection to Nature at the Building Edge
Towards a Therapeutic Architecture for Dementia Care Environments / Garuth Chalfont (Saarbrücken, Germany : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011).
Design & Play
Imagination Needs Places to Thrive / Sam Aquillano and Amanda Hawkins (Boston: Design Museum Foundation, 2017).
Design for Nature in Dementia Care
Garuth Chalfont (Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2015).
Design with Culture
Claiming America's Landscape Heritage / Charles A Birnbaum; Mary V Hughes (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2005).
Designing Outdoor Environments for Children
Landscaping School Yards, Gardens and Playgrounds / Lolly Tai (New York : McGraw-Hill, 2006).
Designing Small Parks
A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns / Ann Forsyth; Laura Musacchio; Frank Fitzgerald (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
The Eye Is a Door
Landscape, Photography, and the Art of Discovery / Anne Whiston Spirn (Wolf Tree, 2014).
From Art to Landscape
Unleashing Creativity in Garden Design / W. Gary Smith (Portland, Ore. : Timber Press, 2010).
From Eye to Heart
Exterior Spaces Explored and Explained / Jon Burley and Patricia Machemer (Cognella, 2015).
Graphic Standards Field Guide to Hardscape
Leonard J. Hopper (Hoboken, N.J : John Wiley, 2010).
Graphic Standards Field Guide to Softscape
Leonard J. Hopper (Hoboken, N.J : John Wiley, 2010).
Groundswell
Constructing the Contemporary Landscape / Peter Reed (New York : Museum of Modern Art, 2008).
Groundwork
Between Landscape and Architecture / Diana Balmori; Joel Sanders (New York : Monacelli Press, 2011).
A Guide to Site Planning and Landscape Construction
Harvey M. Rubenstein (New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1996).
Healthy Environments, Healing Spaces
Practices and Directions in Health, Planning, and Design / Timothy Beatley, Carla L. Jone, and Reuben Rainey, eds. (University of Virginia, 2018).
Hidden in Plain Sight
Theory and Practical Principles Employing Shadows for Creating Memorable Landscapes / Bruce Gary Sharky (Sentia, 2022).
How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business
7th edition / Owen E. Dell (Lanham, Md. : Taylor Trade Publishing, 2015).
Ideal Landscapes the Deep Meaning of Feng Shui
Patterns of Biological and Cultural Genes / Kongjian Yu (ORO Editions, 2020).
Inhabiting the Sacred in Everyday Life
How to Design a Place That Touches Your Heart, Stirs You to Consecrate and Cultivate It as Home, Dwell Intentionally within It, Slay Monsters for It, and Let It Loose in Your Democracy / Randolph T. Hester Jr. and Amber D. Nelson (George F. Thompson, 2019).
The Inspired Landscape
Twenty-One Leading Landscape Architects Explore the Creative Process / Susan Cohen (Portland, Ore. : Timber Press, 2015).
Irrigation Fundamentals
An Applied Technology Text for Teaching Irrigation at the Intermediate Level / George H. Hargreaves; Gary P. Merkley (Highlands Ranch, Colo. : Water Resources Publication, LLC, 1998).
Is Landscape... ?
Essays on the Identity of Landscape / Gareth Doherty; Charles Waldheim (New York : Routledge, 2016).
K-12 Landscape Architecture Education
An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Guide for Art, STEM and Vocational/Trade Educators / Arnaldo Cardona (Columbus, OH : Gatekeeper Press, 2021).
Landscape Architect's Portable Handbook
Nicholas T. Dines; Kyle D. Brown (New York : McGraw-Hill, 2001).
Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards
Leonard J. Hopper (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2007).
Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, Student Edition
Leonard J. Hopper (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2007).
Landscape Architectural Research
Inquiry, Strategy, Design / M. Elen Deming; Simon Swaffield (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2011).
Landscape Architecture
Fifth Edition: A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design / Barry W. Starke; John Ormsbee Simonds (New York : McGraw-Hill, 2013).
Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise
Innovative Global Solutions / Galen D. Newman and Zixu Qiao, eds. (New York : Routledge, 2022).
Landscape Is...!
Essays on the Meaning of Landscape / Gareth Doherty and Charles Waldheim (Routledge, 2025).
Large Parks
Julia Czerniak; George Hargreaves (New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2008).
Letting Play Bloom
Designing Nature-Based Risky Play for Children / Lolly Tai (Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2022).
Manufactured Sites
Rethinking the Post-Industrial Landscape / Niall Kirkwood (London : Taylor and Francis, 2011).
My Kind of Countryside
Roger G. Courtenay (Chicago : the University of Chicago Press, 2010).
Nature in Play
Measuring the Relationship of Nature and Unstructured Play through Case Studies / Lisa Horne (Lap Lambert Academic, 2010).
The Nature of Inclusive Play
A Guide for Designers, Educators, and Therapists / Amy Wagenfeld and Chad Kennedy (Routledge, 2023).
Nature through a Hospital Window
The Therapeutic Benefits of Landscape in Architectural Design / Shan Jiang (Routledge, 2022).
The New Landscape Declaration
A Call to Action for the Twenty-First Century / Landscape Architecture Foundation (Los Angeles : Rare Bird Books, 2017).
Outdoor Environments for People
Considering Human Factors in Landscape Design / Patsy Eubanks Owens, Jayoung Koo, and Yiwei Huang (Routledge, 2023).
Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II
Making Postwar Landscapes Visible / Charles A. Birnbaum with Jane Brown Gillette and Nancy Slade (Washington, DC : Spacemaker Press, 2004).
Professional and Practical Considerations for Landscape Design
Steven L. Cantor (Oxford University Press, 2020).
The Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture
A Complete Guide to Starting and Running Your Own Firm / Walter Rogers (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2013).
Ready, Set, Practice
Elements of Landscape Architecture Professional Practice / Bruce Sharky (New York : Wiley, 1994).
Recovering Landscape
Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture / James Corner (New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2006).
Residential Landscape Architecture
Design Process for the Private Residence / Norman K. Booth; James E. Hiss (New York : Pearson, 2018).
Responsive Landscapes
Strategies for Responsive Technologies in Landscape Architecture / Bradley Cantrell and Justine Holzman (New York, NY : Routledge, 2016).
Sam the Landscape Architect
An Environmental Design Story / Shannon Gapp (Bolton & Menk, 2017).
Schools That Heal
Design with Mental Health in Mind / Claire Latane (Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2021).
Security and Site Design
A Landscape Architectural Approach to Analysis, Assessment, and Design Implementation / Leonard J. Hopper, Martha J. Droge (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
The Shape of the Land
Topography & Landscape Architecture / Marc Treib (ORO Editions, 2023).
Silt Sand Slurry
Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making / Rob Holmes, Gena Wirth, Brett Milligan (Applied Research & Design, 2024).
Site Engineering for Landscape Architects
Steven Strom, Kurt Nathan, Jake Woland (Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2013).
Site Furnishings
A Complete Guide to the Planning, Selection and Use of Landscape Furniture and Amenities / Bill Main and Gail Greet Hannah (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2010).
The Spoils of Dust
Reinventing the Lake that Made Los Angeles / Alexander Robinson (Applied Research & Design, 2018).
Taking Measures Across the American Landscape
James Corner; Alex S. MacLean, photographs ; foreword by Michael Van Valkenburgh (New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1996).
Tangier Gardens
…out of the classroom into real life…via plant portals / Edward Flaherty (flahertylandcape, 2022).
Thinking about Landscape Architecture
Principles of a Design Profession for the 21st Century / Bruce Sharky (New York, NY : Routledge, 2016).
Timberline Lodge
The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon / Sarah Baker Munro ; with photographs by Aaron Johanson ; foreword by Richard Moe (Portland, Ore. : Timber Press, 2009).
Time-Saver Standards
Site Construction Details Manual / Nicholas T. Dines & Kyle D. Brown (New York : McGraw-Hill, 1999).
Time-Saver Standards for Landscape Architecture
2nd Edition / Charles W. Harris & Nicholas T. Dines (New York : McGraw-Hill, 1998).
Values in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Finding Center in Theory and Practice / M. Elen Deming, ed. (Louisiana State University Press, 2015).
Waterstained Landscapes
Seeing and Shaping Regionally Distinctive Places / Joan Woodward ; drawings by Kiku Kurahashi (Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
Weathering and Durability in Landscape Architecture
Fundamentals, Practices, and Case Studies / Niall Kirkwood (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, 2004).
Wisdom of Place
The Elemental Landscape: Recovering the Sacred Origins of Landscape / Chip Sullivan and Elizabeth Boults (ORO Editions, 2025).
Wisdom of Place
The Elemental Landscape: Tarot Deck: Cards and Guidebook / Chip Sullivan and Elizabeth Boults (ORO Editions, 2025).
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