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Books with more than one recommendation have asterisks (*). The top two most recommended are Design with Nature and A Sand County Almanac. Two books rank as the third most recommended: A Pattern Language and The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Titles in each category are arranged from shortest to longest number of pages. This approach helps identify lighter reads from textbooks. But, of course, reorganize as best suits you. –LH



Architecture

Building the Unfinished: Architecture and Human Action by Lars LeRup (169 pages)

The Return of Sacred Architecture: The Golden Ratio and the End of Modernism by Herbert Bangs (240 pages)

The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton (288 pages)

The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius (368 pages)

Business

Staying Small Successfully: A Guide for Architects, Engineers, and Design Professionals by Frank A. Stasiowski (336 pages)

Recommended authors: The Kriers



Design

Anatomy of a Park, The Essentials of Recreation Area Planning and Design by Bernard Dahl and Donald J. Molnar (200 pages)

Lighting the Landscape by Roger Narboni (230 pages)

Landscape for Living by Garrett Eckbo (262 pages)

Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Land Planning and Design by John Ormsbee Simonds and Barry Starke (396 pages)**

Road Ecology: Science and Solutions by Richard T.T. Forman, Daniel Sperling, John A. Bissonette and Anthony P. Clevenger (504 pages)



Ecological Planning

Design with Nature by Ian L. McHarg (208 pages)********* (9)
Comment on post: is what got me into Landscape Architecture and eventually into GIS. I believe it should be required reading for anyone going into either profession. Probably wouldn't hurt engineers to read it either.

Human Ecology: Following Nature's Lead by Dean Frederick Steiner and Richard T.T. Forman (256 pages)

Ecological City by Rutherford H. Platt, Rowan A. Rowntree and Pamela C. Muick (304 pages)

Earthscape a Manual of Environmental by John Simonds (352 pages)

Ecological Design and Planning edited by George F. Thompson and Frederick R. Steiner (368 pages)

Landscape Ecology by Richard T. T. Forman and Michel Godron (640 pages)

Garden Design

Tropical Garden Design by Made Wijaya (208 pages)

Gardens are for People by Thomas Church (256 pages)***

Bold Romantic Gardens by James van Sweden and Wolfgang Oehme (310 pages)**

Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglas W. Tallamy (360 pages)
Comment on post: Career changing

Golf

Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy (240 pages)
Comment on post: More of a right time, right place read. Read it at a time where I was able to take the lessons about life and golf and apply it to design. Taught me to read and trust what was in my mind's eye. Visualize the space.

Golf Has Never Failed Me: The Lost Commentaries of Legendary Golf Architect Donald J. Ross by Donald J. Ross (272 pages)

History

Italian Gardens of the Renaissance by John C. Shepherd and G. A. Jellicoe (200 pages)

A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time by John Brinkerhoff Jackson (224 pages)

English Garden through the 20th Century by Jane Brown (288 pages)

Garden History: Philosophy and Design 2000 BC - 2000 AD by Tom Turner (304 pages)**

The Landscape of Man by Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe and Susan Jellicoe (408 pages) ****

A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era by Robin Karson (428 pages)

The Earth, the Temple and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture by Vincent Scully (498 pages)

Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architecture by Norman T. Newton (744 pages)**

American Space: The Centennial Years, 1865-1876 by J.B. Jackson**

Recommended author: J.B. Jackson



Horticulture

Better Homes and Gardens New Garden Book
Comment on Post: I LOVED that book!

Arborists' Certification Study Guide by ISA (352 pages)
Comment on post: I studied this book before taking my arborist exam in 1994. As an LA, I didn't realize how little I knew about tree biology, horticultural needs, and biomechanics in urban environments - and, as far as I'm concerned, most LAs still have a ways to go.

Plants for the South: A Guide for Landscape Design by Neil G. Odenwald and James R. Turner

Plants, people, and environmental quality: A study of plants and their environmental functions by Gary Robinette

Up by Roots by James Urban
Comment on post: The current definitive "how-to" for proper design of planting environments

Inspiration

Walking by Henry Thoreau (28 pages)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (165 pages)**

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (752 pages)

Recommended authors: James Mitchner, Wallace Stegner



Inspiration in Children’s Literature

The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton (44 pages)

Babar the King by Jean de Brunhoff (56 pages)

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (64 pages)
Comment on post: Great message; it helped give my kids an understanding of why Dad is who he is, and what nature "gives" us all

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (100 pages)

Legacies

Abstracting the Landscape: The Artistry of Landscape Architect A. E. Bye by Eliza Pennypacker, Kristi A. Wormhoudt and Catherine Howett (121 pages)

New Brazilian Gardens: The Legacy of Roberto Burle Marx by Roberto Silva (192 pages)

The Complete Landscape Designs and Gardens of Geoffrey Jellicoe by Michael Spens (212 pages)

Dan Kiley: The Complete Works of America's Master Landscape Architect by Dan Kiley (224 pages)

Gardens of Luciano Giubbilei by Andrew Wilson (224 pages)
Comment on post: Ultra chic.

Sagmeister: Made You Look by Stefan Sagmeister (292 pages)

A Clearing in the Distance by Witold Rybczynski (480 pages)
Comment on post: Illustrates the struggle and challenges Olmsted faced in life and career, and can be used to inspire knowing his successes, achievements, devotion, and failures.

Genius of Place: The Life of Fredrick Law Olmsted by Justin Martin (496 pages)
Comment on post: Even though he was the main catalyst of our profession, FLO contributed to our nation in many more ways.

Nature

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (300 pages)******* (7)
Comment on post: [This book] should be required reading for all LA students, and maybe a couple CEPH for all pros; it can be a goosebump read with a "natural" prose that borders on being poetry.


Reading the Landscape of America by May Watts (372 pages)

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv (390 pages)***
Recommended movie paring: Cinema Paradesio or Second-hand Lions

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (400 pages)

Philosophy

Siftings by Jens Jensen (136 pages)**

Gardens Make Me Laugh by Jim Rose (182 pages)**

The RSVP Cycles by Lawrence Halprin (207 pages)**

On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (208 pages)

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard (288 pages)**

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Gustav Jung (448 pages)

The Bible


Comment on post: You'd be surprised at the references to environmental stewardship and the importance for human beings to be in balance with nature (life changing)

Poetry

“Hamatreya” by Ralph Waldo Emerson


Comment on post: I'll also throw in two great poems about the durability of humanity's works

"Epistle IV, to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington" by Alexander Pope


"Consult the genius of the place in all;/That tells the waters or to rise, or fall;/Or helps th' ambitious hill the heav'ns to scale,/Or scoops in circling theatres the vale;/Calls in the country, catches opening glades,/Joins willing woods, and varies shades from shades,/Now breaks, or now directs, th' intending lines;/Paints as you plant, and, as you work, designs."

“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley


Comment on post: I'll also throw in two great poems about the durability of humanity's works
(Available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias)

Readers and Essay Collections

The Poetics of Gardens by Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell and William Trunbull, Jr (272 pages)

Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review edited by Marc Treib (306 pages)

S,M,L,XL by Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Hans Werlemann (1376 pages)

Reference

A Comparison of Five Inner-City Parks: Implications for Planning by Mark Gladysz with City of Toronto (42 pages)

Bioengineering for Land Reclamation and Conservation by Hugo Schiechtl (404 pages)

Handbook of Landscape Architectural Construction by Maurice Nelischer

Regional

Midwestern Landscape Architecture edited by William Tishler (272 pages)

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaus (320 pages)

Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West by Wallace Stegner (384 pages)

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner (608 pages)

Sociology

Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (132 pages)

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink (288 pages)

Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan (496 pages)
Comment on post: Explore how we experience, perceive, and remember places.

Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama.(672 pages)**
Comment on post: Explore how we experience, perceive, and remember places.

Sustainability

Tomorrow by Design: A Regional Design Process for Sustainability by Prof. Philip H. Lewis (258 pages)

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler (304 pages)
Recommended movie pairing: Man in the Gray Flannel Suit or From the Terrace

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck (320 pages)**

Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development by John Tillman Lyle (353 pages)

Green Urbanism: Learning From European Cities by Timothy Beatley (491 pages)

Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman (528 pages)
Comment on post: Just started it, but so far very impactful

Urban Planning

Garden Cities of To-morrow by Ebenezer Howard (112 pages)

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H. Whyte (125 pages)

Image of the City by Kevin Lynch (194 pages)**

The Landscape Urbanism Reader edited by Charles Waldheim (288 pages)

Concise Townscape by Gordon Cullen (300 pages)**

Design of Cities by Edmund Bacon (336 pages)

Great Streets by Allan Jacobs. (344 pages)**
Comment on post: Wonderful analysis of key elements that create the fabric of our cities.

The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design by Anne Whiston Spirn (352 pages)***
Comment on post: Great book illustrating how strong an influence our cities have on nature, and vice-versa.

Good City Form by Kevin Lynch (524 pages)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (640 pages)*****(5)
Recommended movie pairing: West Side Story

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein (1171 pages)*****(5)

Handbook of Urban Landscape by Cliff Tandy

Recommended author: Kevin Lynch
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