Theory in Landscape Architecture: A Reader [Paperback]

Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political structures,Theory in Landscape Architecturereminds readers that the discipline of landscape architecture can be both practical and formally challenging. Covering the past fifty years of theory, this primer makes an important contribution to a student's emerging professional ethics.

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

Basic theoretical texts for landscape architects.