This series introduces innovative work in landscape architecture and serves as a venue for important critical, practical, theoretical, and historical works to make their appearance in print. The full scope of concerns in the field—from gardens to regional planning, from private to public, present to future, from design to garden history—is embraced by Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Books in the series are intended for practitioners, academics, and general readers. Recipient of the Award of Honor in Comunications from the American Society of Landscape Architects, 2006.
Series Editor:
John Dixon Hunt
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania School of Design
Staff Editorial Contact:
Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief wbiggins@upenn.edu
Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles
Thomas F. Hedin
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812253757
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
Ovid tells the story of Latona, the mother by Jupiter of Apollo and Diana. In her flight from the jealous Juno, she arrives faint and parched on the coast of Asia Minor. Kneeling to sip from a pond,...
Western admirers have long seen the Islamic garden as an earthly reflection of the paradise said to await the faithful. However, such simplification, Ruggles contends, denies the sophistication and...
Moss, stone, trees, and sand arranged in striking or natural-looking compositions: the tradition of establishing and refining the landscape has been the work of Japanese gardeners and designers for...
Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight...
Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Liz Bellamy
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812250831
Pub Date: March 2019
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
In The Language of Fruit, Liz Bellamy explores how poets, playwrights, and novelists from the Restoration to the Romantic era represented fruit and fruit trees in a period that saw significant...
Dilip da Cunha integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted a special role in defining human...
One may visit famous gardens in Tokyo, Kyoto, or Osaka—or one may visit Japanese-styled gardens in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Berlin, London, Paris, São Paulo, or Singapore. We often...
Paula Deitz has delighted readers for more than thirty years with her vivid descriptions of both famous and hidden landscapes. Her writings allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive...
Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are...
Contributions by Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812248005
Pub Date: May 2016
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see...
