Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History

This is an incredible book! It is truly a cultural and architectural history – not just a history of landscape design. You can turn to any page and learn so much, even about things you may already know something about. The author is a master at bringing to bear culture, philosophy, religion, art, literature, and technology to each topic. It is dense, but if it weren't, this book would be huge. I will be reading this book for months and years and I'm so happy to have found it and recommend it to anyone, whether or not you are interested in landscape design.

WOW what a book. Incredibly interesting subject matter. It is however a very difficult books to read. The author is incredibly intelligent and knowledgable in this field, and on more than one occasion makes you take out your old grammar cards and confirm that yes... somehow the past 12 lines on this page have all been one coherent literarily sound sentence. Incredible book, but denser than the King James... and thicker! if you are reading this for a class awesome its a great read.... DO NOT WAIT till 2 days before the test, this is a book you can NOT cram read. little bit each day.

I got this book for a Landscape Architecture History class and didn't use it much. From what my teacher told me and the few chapters I did read (they're pretty long chapters, by the way) the author tends to go on and on, verging on losing the readers attention at times. What's great about this book though is that you can pick it up and read about a particular site (with great photos to accompany the text) for 10 or 15 minutes, which makes it a great coffee table book.

This is a great book. It is very readable, and even if you are not particularly interested in landscape design/architectural history, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers will inspire you. This book follows landscape and cultural architecture through history and makes me wonder why all schools - from elementary on up - don't attack history lessons from such a practical and fascinating point of view.Also, compared with other landscape Arch books this is much less narrow and really weaves in many many threads of cultural and historical interest.

The media could not be loaded.  The book came without the cover pictured, but is in excellent condition.

The book is great, just like in the picture!However, it was delivered one day later than the promised one !Unfortunately, I am a student and needed it for my class, which did not happen!

Fantastic survey of landscape design through historical periods with an abundance of information. Highly recommended.

This was recommended by one of my students, and it is terrific. It gives insights into why certain landscape and garden designs came to be, not simply how they are done. I'll refer to some of the author's specific points in my next course.

Really clear and deep description in different times.