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History and Biography Books by ASLA Members
Rich histories and visual records showcasing the work and legacy of landscape architects and their firms—both contemporary and historic.
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Beauty of the Wild
A Life Designing Landscapes Inspired by Nature / Darrel Morrison (Library Of American Landscape History, 2021).
Bernard Trainor
Ground Studio Landscapes / Bernard Trainor (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019).
Beyond Bold
Inspiration, Collaboration, Evolution / Eric Groft, Sheila Brady, Lisa Delplace, Oehme, van Sweden | OvS (Pointed Leaf Press, 2022).
Charleston Gardens and the Landscape Legacy of Loutrel Briggs
James R. Cothran (Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2010).
Coen+Partners
Contextual Minimalism: Landscape Architecture and Urbanism / Shane Coen (Princeton Architectural Press, 2018).
The Cultivated Wild
Gardens and Landscapes by Raymond Jungles / Raymond Jungles; Charles A Birnbaum (New York : The Monacelli Press, 2015).
Dan Kiley
The Complete Works of America's Master Landscape Architect / Dan Kiley and Jane Amidon (Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1999).
Depositions
Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship / Catherine Seavitt Nordenson (University of Texas Press, 2018).
Doing Almost Nothing
The Landscapes of Georges Descombes / Marc Treib (ORO Editions, 2019).
Dynamic Geographies
W Architecture and Landscape Architecture / Barbara Wilks (Novato, California : ORO Editions, 2021).
Envisioning Landscapes
The Transformative Environments of OJB / OJB Landscape Architecture (New York : Monacelli, 2021).
The Essential Ian McHarg
Writings on Design and Nature / Ian L. McHarg ; edited by Frederick R. Steiner (Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2006).
Fertilizers
Olin/Eisenman / Julia Czerniak; Peter Eisenman; Claudia Gould; Laurie Olin (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, Inst. of Contemporary Art, 2006).
Frederick Law Olmsted
Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates (The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted) / Charles E. Beveridge, Lauren Meier, and Irene Mills, eds. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2020).
Garrett Eckbo
Modern Landscapes for Living / Marc Treib, Dorothée Imbert (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997).
GGN: Landscapes 1999-2018
Thaïsa Way, Jennifer Guthrie, Kathryn Gustafson, and Shannon Nichol (Timber Press, 2018).
The Good Garden
The Landscape Architecture of Edmund Hollander Design / Edmund Hollander and Anne Raver (New York : Monacelli Press, 2015).
Grounded
The Works of Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg / Michael Van Valkenburgh; Kelty McKinnon; Chris Phillips; Marta Farevaag; Greg Smallenberg; (Vancouver, B.C. : Blueimprint, 2010).
Hops
Historic Photographs of the Oregon Hopscape / Kenneth I. Helphand (Oregon State University Press, 2020).
Illustrated History of Landscape Design
Elizabeth Boults; Chip Sullivan (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2010).
Iona Dreaming
The Healing Power of Place / Clare Cooper Marcus (Lake Worth, Fla. : Nicolas-Hays, 2010).
James Rose
A Voice Offstage / Dean Cardasis (Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2017).
Landscape Design
A Cultural and Architectural History / Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2001).
Landscape Observatory
The Work of Terence Harkness / M. Elen Demming (Applied Research & Design, 2017).
Landscapes in History
2nd Edition / Philip Pregill; Nancy Volkman (New York : Wiley, 1999).
Love Every Leaf
The Life of Landscape Architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander / Kathy Stinson (Toronto : Tundra Books, 2008).
Martha Schwartz Partners
Landscape Art and Urbanism / Martha Schwartz Partners (Menges, 2018).
The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm 1857-1979
edited by Lucy Lawliss, Caroline Loughlin, and Lauren Meier (National Association for Olmsted Parks, 2008).
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Reconstructing Urban Landscapes / edited by Anita Berrizbeitia (New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2009).
Movement and Meaning
The Landscapes of Hoerr Schaudt / Douglas Hoerr, Peter Lindsay Schaudt (New York : Monacelli Press, 2017).
Nelson Byrd Woltz
Garden, Park, Community, Farm / Warren T Byrd; Thomas L Woltz; Stephen Orr; Elizabeth Meyer (New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2013).
Olmsted and Yosemite
Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea / Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr (Library Of American Landscape History, 2022).
Pioneers of American Landscape Design
Charles A. Birnbaum, Robin Karson (New York : McGraw Hill, 2000).
Public Spaces, Private Gardens
A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans / Lake Douglas (Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2011).
PWP Landscape Architecture
Building Ideas / Peter Walker, John Dixon Hunt, and Gina Crandell (ORO Editions, 2017).
Recycling Spaces
Curating Urban Evolution : The Landscape Design of Martha Schwartz Partners / Emily Waugh (San Raphael, CA: ORO Editions, 2011).
Roberto Burle Marx Lectures
Landscape as Art and Urbanism / Gareth Doherty (Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2018).
The Scenic Route
Building Minnesota's North Shore / Arnold R. Alanen (University of Minnesota, 2025).
Selected Works of Landscape Architect John L. Wong
From Private To Public Ground From Small To Tall / John L. Wong (Oscar Riera Ojeda, 2024).
Serious Fun
The Landscapes of Claude Cormier / Marc Treib and Susan Herrington (Novato, CA : ORO Editions, 2021).
Shaping the American Landscape
New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project / edited by Charles A. Birnbaum and Stephanie S. Foell (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009).
Shaping the Postwar Landscape
New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project / edited by Charles A. Birnbaum and Scott Craver (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018).
Son of a Kulák
How a Hungarian Farm Boy Survived World War II and Escaped Stalinist Oppression for a New Life in America / Julius Gy Fabos (Bloomington, Ind. : iUniverse, 2010).
Unbounded Practice
Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century / Thaïsa Way (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009).
The Vanguard Landscapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz
edited by Tim Richardson (New York : Thames & Hudson, 2004).
Warren H. Manning: Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner
edited by Robin Karson, Jane Roy Brown, and Sarah Allaback (Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2016).
Women in Landscape Architecture
Essays on History and Practice / Louise A. Mozingo and Linda Jewell (Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2012).
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