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LAR 220 A&B Landscape Architecture Site Design Studio I
LAR 220 C Composite Landscape Architecture Site Design Studio I
Recommended Texts
for Design Studio
"Because the sketchbook requires concentrated
involvement and can lead outwards into ... further investigations ... it is a
great deal more useful than the camera. The camera can only record -- it
cannot edit, select or interpret. A trained photographer may use the
camera creatively, but its educational benefits are limited. By
encouraging us to become more visually literate through the countless
photographs produced each year, the camera has had the adverse effect of
focusing our attention upon the superficialities of subject and form, rather
than upon their underlying structure and meaning."
Brian Edwards (1994) Understanding
Architecture Through Drawing, London: E & FN Spon, p. 61.
These books:
- provide useful information, and
- present wonderful imagery that will
- stimulate the imagination.
They will:
- help you develop your powers of observation
which in turn will
- improve your abilities to see and analyze
relationships and
- help make compelling drawings with which you
can
- represent the designed and natural environment,
or
- communicate abstract ideas.
The knowledge and skills addressed in them will enable you
to:
- visualize the physical/ spatial/ visual
possibilities for a new
- meaningful, beautiful and (hopefully) sustainable future.
Highly recommended:
- Adams, James, Conceptual Blockbusting
- Albers, Josef, The Interaction of Color
- Alexander, Christopher, A Pattern Language
- Arnold, Henry, Trees in Urban Design, 2d ed.
- Ashihara, Yoshinobu, Exterior Design in Architecture
- Baker, Geoffrey, Le Corbusier: An analysis of form
- Bloomer and Moore, Body, Memory and Architecture
- Booth, Norman, Basic Elements of Landscape Architectural Design
- Bye, A.E., Art into Landscape; Landscape into Art
- Ching, ______, Design Drawing
- Ching, ______, Drawing: A Creative Process
- Clark, Roger, and Michael Pause, Precedents in Architecture
- Cullen, Gordon, The Concise Townscape
- Dee, Catherine (2001) Form and Fabric in Landscape
Architecture: A visual introduction. London: Spon Press.
- Dondis, A Primer of Visual Literacy
- Edwards, Betti, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- Edwards, Brian, Understanding Architecture Through
Drawing
- Herzog, et al,
Timber Construction Manual, Birkhäuser, TA
666 .H47 2004 (check the Reserves Desk)
- ____________, The Ted Kautzky Pencil Book, Combined Edition
- Koberg, Ian, and Jim Bagnall, The Universal Traveler: A
soft-systems guide to creativity, problem solving, and the process of reaching goals
- Lockard, Kirby, Design Drawing
- Lorenz, Albert, and Leonard Lizak, Architectural Illustration
Inside and Out
- Lynch, Kevin, Image of the City
- Lynch, ____, anything by this author
- Lyndon, Donlyn, and Charles Moore, Chambers for a Memory Palace
- Marcus, Clare Cooper, People Places
- Markus, Thomas A and Deborah Cameron, The
Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language, London and NYC:
Routledge. 2002 NA 2543 .L34 M37 2002
- McHarg, Ian, Design with Nature
- Moore, Chas., et al, The Poetics of Gardens
- Moore, Chas., et al, The Place of Houses
- Motloch, John, Introduction to Landscape Design
- Olin, Laurie, Across the Open Field
- Pena, William, Problem Seeking: An architectural programming
primer, 3rd ed.
- Potteiger, Matthew, and Jamie Purinton, Landscape Narratives:
Design practices for telling stories
- Preece, R. A, Designs on the Landscape
- Reid, Grant, From Concept to Form in Landscape Design
- Reid, Grant, Landscape Graphics
- Simonds, John, Landscape Architecture: A manual of site planning
and design
- Spirn, Ann Whiston, The Granite Garden: Urban nature and human
design
- Spirn, _________ , The Language of Landscape
- Sullivan, Chip, Drawing the Landscape
- Trancik, Roger, Finding Lost Space: Theories of urban design
- Treib, Marc, ed. Representing Landscape Architecture
- Treib, Marc, Modern Landscape Architecture: A critical review
- Walker, Peter and Melanie Simo, Invisible Gardens: The search for
modernism in the American landscape
- Walker, Theodore, Site Design and Construction Detailing
- Walker, _______, Plan Graphics
- Walker, _______, Perspective Sketches
- Wang, Thomas, Pencil Sketching
- White, Edward, Site Analysis: Diagramming information for
architectural design
- White, ______, Path Portal Place: Appreciating public space in
urban environments
- Whyte, William H., The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
- von Meiss, Pierre, Elements of Architecture: From form to place
- Zevi, Bruno, Architecture as Space: How to look at architecture
Note that many of these books are out in
second, third, and even fourth editions.
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