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Drawing and digital modeling how-to books by expert landscape architects, covering sketching, visualization, and professional workflows.

The Bookstore at the 2025 Conference on Landscape Architecture in New Orleans (ASLA / nobilephoto)

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65 Tips to Help You Evaluate Any Design / Val Brandon.

65 Tips to Help You See Your Job Site / Val Brandon.

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).

Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture : Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design / Bradley Cantrell, Wes Michaels (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2015).

Drawing the Landscape : The Art of Hand Drawing and Digital Representation / Chip Sullivan (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2014).

Field Sketching for Environmental Designers / Chip Sullivan (Routledge, 2023).

Foundations of Landscape Architecture : Integrating Form and Space Using the Language of Site Design / Norman K. Booth (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012).

France Sketchbooks / Laurie Olin (Hoboken, ORO Editions, 2020).

Freehand Drawing and Discovery : Urban Sketching and Concept Drawing for Designers / James Richards (Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2013).

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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).

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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: Analogue / Nadia Amoroso, ed. (Routledge, 2019).

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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