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Reading List

 

SUGGESTED READING LIST

 

DESIGN PRINCIPLES / VISUAL STUDIES

Author  

  Date

Title

Publisher

Birren, F,[ed] Itten

1991

The Elements of Colour

Van Nostrand

Brookes J

2001

Garden Design

London: Dorling kindersley

Ching, F.

2007

Architecture, form space and order

London:Van Nostrand Reinhold

Crowe, S

1994

Garden Deisgn

Garden Art Press

Elam, K

2011

Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and composition

Princeton Univ. Press

Jeffrey Kastner and Brian Wallis

2010

Land and Environmental Art

Phaidon

Robert W Gill

2006

Perspective from the basic to the creative

Thames and Hudson

Sausmarez, M de

2002

Basic Design: the dynamic of visual form

London: A&C, Black

PLANT SCIENCE AND SOILS  

Adams, C.R., K.M. Bamford and M.P. Early

2008

Principles of horticulture

Butterworth-Heinemann

Capon, B

2005

Botany for gardeners an introduction and guide

Timber Press

Clegg, C.J.

2003

Green plants: the inside story

John Murray

Ingram, D.S., D Vince-Prue and P.J. Gregory (eds.)

2002

Science and the garden: the scientific basis of horticultural practice

Blackwell

Harrison, L

2012

RHS Latin for gardeners

Mitchell Beazley

Ridge, I (ed.)

2002

Plants

Open University

Brady, N.C. and Weil, R.R

2008

The nature and properties of soils

Prentice Hall

Davies, B, Eagle, D.J and Finney, J.B

2005

Resource management: soil

Farming Press

Petschek, P

2008

Grading for Landscape Architects and architects

Germany: Birkhauser Verlag AG

Handreck, K, and Black, N.

2005

Growing media for ornamental plants and turf

University of New South Wales

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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