Recommended Reading

- Bateson, Gregory, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1972/2000).
- Beckman, John (ed.), The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998).
- Berrizbeita, Anita, and Linda Pollak, Inside/Outside: Between Architecture and Landscape (Rockport, 1999).
- Beardsley, John, Earthworks and Beyond (New York: Abbeville Press, 1998).
- Bye, Arthur Edward, Art into Landscape: Landscape into Art (Mesa, AZ: PDA Publishers, 1983).
- Calvino, Italo, Invisible Cities (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997).
- Corner, James, and Alex MacLean, Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).
- Corner, James (ed.), Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture (New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999).
- Cosgrove, Denis and Stephen Daniels (eds.) The Iconography of Landscape (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
- Cosgrove, Denis, Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984/1998).
- Cosgrove, Denis (ed.), Mappings (London: Reaktion, 1999).
- Czerniak, Julia (ed.), CASE: Downsview Park (London: Prestel, 2002).
- Dorst, J.D., The Written Suburb (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989).
- Duncan, James and David Ley, Place/Culture/Representation (London & NY: Routledge, 1993).
- Evernden, Neil, The Social Creation of Nature (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1992).
- Forman, Richard, Land Mosiacs (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996).
- Francis, Mark and Hester, Randolph (eds.), The Meaning of Gardens (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990).
- Garreau, Joel, Edge Cities (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
- Glacken, Clarence, Traces on the Rhodian Shore (Berkeley, CA: University of California, Press, 1967).
- Gustafson, Kathryn, Sculpting the Land (Washington DC: Spacemaker Press, 1999).
- Hays, Michael (ed.), Architecture Theory Since 1968 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999).
- Hunt, John Dixon, Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992).
- Hunt, John Dixon, Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).
- Jackson, J.B., The Necessity of Ruins (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980).
- Jackson, J.B., Landscape in Sight: Looking at America (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999).
- Jellicoe, Geoffrey & Susan, The Landscape of Man: Shaping the Environment from Prehistory to the Present Day (New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1975).
- Kiley, Dan and Jane Amidon, Dan Kiley: The Complete Works of America's Master Landscape Architect (London: Thames and Hudson, 1998).
- Koolhaas, Rem and Bruce Mau, S, M, L, XL (New York: Monacelli Press, 1996).
- Lassus, Bernard, The Landscape Approach (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).
- Leatherbarrow, David, Uncommon Ground (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000).
- Lynch, Kevin and Gary Hack, Site Planning (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986).
- Maas, Winy and Jacob Van Rijs, and Richard Koek, FARMAX: Excursions on Density (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1998).
- Maas, Winy, et-al. (MVRDV), Metacity / Datatown (Rotterdam: 010 Pub., 1999).
- McHarg, Ian, Design with Nature (New York, NY: Natural History Press, 1969).
- Meinig, D.W., (ed.) The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1979).
- Merchant, Carolyn, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution (San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1980).
- Miller, Naomi, and Kathryn Gleason, The Archaeology of Garden and Field (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994).
- Moore, Charles W., William J. Mitchell and William Turnbull, The Poetics of Gardens (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991).
- Mosser, Monique & Georges Teyssot, The Architecture of Western Gardens (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991).
- Mostafavi, Mohsen and David Leatherbarrow, On Weathering (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994).
- Muschamp, Herbert, The Once and Future Park (New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1993).
- Olin, Laurie, Across the Open Field (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).
- Olin, Laurie, Transforming the Commonplace (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996).
- Pogue-Harrison, Robert, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
- Rose, Dan, Patterns of American Culture (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989).
- Rowe, Peter, Making the Middle Landscape (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989).
- Schama, Simon, Landscape and Memory (New York: Knopf, 1995).
- Schwartz, Martha, Transfiguration of the Commonplace (Washington DC: Spacemaker Press, 1997).
- Smithson, Robert, The Writing of Robert Smithson, ed. Nancy Holt (New York, NY: New York University Press, 1979).
- Spirn, Anne Whiston, The Granite Garden (New York, NY: Basic Book, Inc., 1984).
- Steenbergen, Clemens, Architecture and Landscape: The Great Experiment of the European Gardens and Landscapes (New York: Prestel, 1996).
- Teyssot, Georges, et-al, The American Lawn (New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999).
- Thompson, George, and Frederick Steiner (eds.), Ecological Design and Planning (New York, NY: John Wiley, 1996).
- Tiberghien, Gilles, Land Art (New York: Princeton Architectural press, 1994).
- Treib, Marc (ed.), Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review (Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1993).
- Tschumi, Bernard, Event Cities: Praxis (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994).
- Tschumi Bernard, Architecture and Disjunction (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994).
- Tufte, Edward, Envisioning Information (Graphics Press, 1993).
- Walker, Peter, Minimalist Gardens (Washington, DC: Spacemaker Press, 1996).
- Ward, Alan, American Designed Landscapes (Washington, DC: Spacemaker Press, 1998).
- Watts, May Theilgard, Reading the Landscape of America (New York: MacMillan, 1957).
- Weilacher, Udo, Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art (Basel: Birkhauser, 1996).
- Weiss, Allen S., Unnatural Horizons: Paradox and Contradiction in Landscape Architecture (New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998).

Also, the following journals and magazines are recommended:
- Architecture
- Archis (Netherlands)
- Daidalos
- Garten und Landscaft (Germany)
- L'architecture d'aujourd'hui (France)
- Landscape Architecture Magazine
- Land Forum
- Landscape Journal
- Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
- Topos: European Landscape Magazine