Texas A&M MLA Reading List

Suggested Readings - LAUP
Students should be familiar with some of the following publications before entering the MLA program. They are essential to landscape architecture and the MLA program dealing with values, perceptions, and techniques.

1.Booth NK 1983. Basic Elements of Landscape Architectural Design. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.

2.Davis, D. and Walker, T. 1999. Plan Graphics, 5th Edition. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

3.Doyle, M. 2006. Color Drawing. 3rd edition. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

4.Motloch JL 2001. Introduction to Landscape Design, 2nd Edition. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

5.Petrie, F. 1992. Drawing Landscapes In Pencil. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications.

6.Reid GW 1993. From Concept to Form in Landscape Design, New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

7.Sullivan, C. 2004. Drawing The Landscape. 3rd edition. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

University of Georgia MLA Reading List

MLA Reading List

 

This is the recommended reading list for the MLA program at the University of Georgia.

 

 

Books

• American Landscape Architecture, edited by William Tishler
• Architecture: Form, Space & Order, Francis D.K. Ching
• Bounded People, Boundless Lands, Eric Frey Fogle
• Celebrating Third Place, edited by Ray Oldenburg
• Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
• Design with Nature, Ian L. McHarg
• Earth in Mind, David Orr
• Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray
• Experience of Place, Tony Hiss
• Genus Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture, Christian Norberg-Schultz
• The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
• God, Dr. Buzzard and the Bolito Man, Cornelia Walker Bailey
• Great Streets, Allan B. Jacobs
• The Granite Garden, Urban Nature, and Human Design, Ann Whiston Spirn
• The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch
• Keeping Time, William Murtaugh
• Landscape Architecture: An Illustrated History, William Mann
• Landscape Journal: Eco-Revelatory Design, Special Issue 1998
• Landscape Planning – Environmental Applications, William Marsh
• Placing Nature, Culture, and Landscape Ecology, edited by Joan Nassaver
• The Meaning of Gardens, edited by Mark Francis and Randolph T. Hester
• A Moment on the Earth, Gregg Easterbrook
• A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman
• A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander
• The Necessity for Ruins, John Brinckerhoff Jackson
• Reading the Landscape of America, May Theilgaard Watts
• Rural by Design, Randall Arendt
• A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
• Second Nature, Michael Pollan
• The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William H. Whyte
• Trees in Urban Design, Henry F. Arnold
• Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature, edited by William Cronon

Journals

• American Forests
• Architectural Record
• Environment and Behavior
• Historic Preservation
• Landscape Architecture
• Landscape Journal
• Places
• Restoration and Management Notes
• Urban Land