Theory in Landscape Architecture - A Reader

Basic theoretical texts for landscape architects.

List of contents

Selections included in the volume:

"How to Study Landscape"—J. B. Jackson

"Design Process"—Hideo Sasaki

"Site Planning"—Kevin Lynch

"Inventive Analysis"—Bernard Lassus

"Form, Meaning, and Expression"—Laurie Olin

"Minimalist Landscape"—Peter Walker

"Must Landscapes Mean?"—Marc Treib

"Reading and Writing the Site"—John Dixon Hunt

"The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture"—Elizabeth Meyer

"Design with Nature"—Ian McHarg

"The Granite Garden"—Ann Whiston Spirn

"Principles for Regional Design"—Michael Hough

About the author

Simon Swaffield is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand.

Product details

• Assisted by: Simon Swaffield (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2002
• EAN: 9780812218213
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1821-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 251 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 594 g
• Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Arch; Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture