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Drawing and Design Books by ASLA Members
Drawing and digital modeling how-to books by expert landscape architects, covering sketching, visualization, and professional workflows.
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Cartographic Grounds
Projecting the Landscape Imaginary / Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim, eds. (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016).
Cartooning the Landscape
Chip Sullivan (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016).
Codify
Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture / Bradley Cantrell and Adam Mekies, eds. (Routledge, 2018).
Design Visualization
Exploring Expressive Visualization Through Art Fundamentals / Shima Rabiee (ORO Editions, 2019).
Detailing for Landscape Architects
Aesthetics, Function, Constructibility / Tom Ryan; Edward Allen; Patrick Rand (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2011).
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture
Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design / Bradley Cantrell, Wes Michaels (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2015).
Digital Land
Integrating Technology into the Land Planning Process / James L. Sipes; Mark S. Lindhult (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2007).
Drawing the Landscape
The Art of Hand Drawing and Digital Representation / Chip Sullivan (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2014).
Foundations of Landscape Architecture
Integrating Form and Space Using the Language of Site Design / Norman K. Booth (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012).
Freehand Drawing and Discovery
Urban Sketching and Concept Drawing for Designers / James Richards (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2013).
The International Geodesign Collaboration
Changing Geography by Design / Thomas Fisher, Brian Orland, and Carl Steinitz (Esri Press, 2020).
Landscape Graphics
Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing of Landscape Spaces / Grant W. Reid (New York : Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002).
Landscape Site Grading Principles
Grading with Design in Mind / Bruce Sharky (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014).
Materials and Their Applications in Landscape Design
Rob W. Sovinski (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009).
Modeling the Environment
Techniques and Tools for the 3D Illustration of Dynamic Landscapes / Bradley Cantrell, Natalie Yates (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012).
Representing Landscapes
A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings / Nadia Amoroso (Routledge, 2012).
Representing Landscapes
One Hundred Years of Visual Communication / Nadia Amoroso and Martin Holland (Routledge, 2022).
Simplified Irrigation Design
Professional Designer and Installer Version / Pete Melby (New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995).
SketchUp for Site Design
A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture / Daniel Tal (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2016).
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