I am always reading lists of the "100 books you must read." Here's a list of my most revered books on landscape and garden design.
Read MoreFAVORITE GARDEN BOOKS or FAVORITE LANDSCAPE BOOKS
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Books
NO MAINTENANCE GARDEN AND LOW MAINTENANCE GARDENING
Whether your garden is a vertical landscape design or an urban landscape design it will require some maintenance. Low or easy maintenance gardening is what many people would like to embrace, either through necessity or preference. No garden will be a zero maintenance garden but most gardening activities have a lower input solution or alternative to consider.
A landscape designer can design a low maintenance garden, but there is no such situation where it could be a...
Read MoreLANDSCAPE + LAND ART IN SCOTLAND
A review of “Close: Landscape Design and Land Art in Scotland” by Allan Pollok-Morris. A monograph photography of conceptual landscape design.
Read MoreA PATTERN LANGUAGE
in Books
By the book. Or,…
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A Pattern Language
, written by several authors -- is an attempt to codify generations of architectural wisdom. While utopian in its ideals, it reveals how architecture and design connects people to their surroundings in an infinite number of ways based upon natural considerations. This book is about functional design for humans rather than design for design's sake. It promotes design which fits the needs and desires of the user, not the developer, architect or designer.
The reader is given an overview of some 250 patterns that are the units of this language, each consisting of a design problem, discussion, illustration, and solution. By understanding recurrent design problems in our environment, readers can identify extant patterns in their own design projects and use these patterns to create a language of their own.
I’ve read that the
were fashioned from this book.
A summary of the book can be found
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My thanks to
for turning me onto this amazing book.
