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Title: Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers ISBN: 0-8109-4253-4 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Great coffee table book, bad text book
Comment: I had to purchase this book for my LA class and it's a bug squasher. While the pictures are impressive, and the coverage of the subject in-depth, the author can be long winded. What she covers in a page could have easily been said in a couple of paragraphs. I also don't care for the glossy pages. While they make the pictures look nice, reading the fine text that it's printed can give one a headache.
Rating: 4
Summary: A note about the photos
Comment: Very well researched history of landscape design. However, I wouldn't go so far as to describe the photographs as 'breathtaking' as does another reviewer. There are many of them, all interesting, but almost all (apart from a brief intro sequence) only quarter or eighth page size. As a result, there is no image as impressive as the front cover. This is my only quibble, and the reason for 4 not 5 stars: why have a book so big and then not make full use of its size to present such a visually-based subject?
Rating: 5
Summary: Landscape Design: A Cultural And Architectural History
Comment: From Nineveh to a mobile home in Pecos, NM, Rogers casts a wide net, exploring the evolution of formal landscaping in parallel to humansÕ urge to put their mark on the earth. A scholar, who administered New YorkÕs Central Park for two decades, she provides a compelling account of the cultural roots that underly the plantings, explaining the ideas inherent in unfamiliar and classic gardens. Every page contains sharp insightsÑfor example, her suggestion that the broken column that the Baron de Monville built as his house at the Desert de Retz outside Paris in the 1780s portended the revolution that would sweep away the civilization he cherished. The abundance of plans and illustrations do ample justice to the text. (Michael Webb is the book reviewer for LA Architect magazine.)
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Title: The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day by Geoffrey Jellicoe, Susan Jellicoe, Janet Waymark ISBN: 0500278199 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Site Engineering for Landscape Architects by Steven Strom, Kurt Nathan ISBN: 047129196X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 10 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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Title: Landscape Graphics: Plan, Section, and Perspective Drawing Landscape Spaces by Grant W. Reid ISBN: 0823073335 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: From Concept to Form: In Landscape Design by Grant W. Reid ISBN: 0471285099 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 20 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Architecture: Form, Space, and Order by Frank D.K. Ching, Francis D. Ching ISBN: 0471286168 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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