30 Trees and Why Landscape Architects Love Them brings together thirty internationally renowned landscape architects, each nominating a favourite tree and articulating precisely why it matters — to ecology, to design, and to the projects they have built.
About This Book
Edited by Ron Henderson, this book works on two registers simultaneously. At its most personal, it is a collection of practitioner testimony: thirty landscape architects describing the trees that anchor their design thinking, illustrated through completed projects from around the world. At its most scholarly, five critical essays examine the criteria — typology, ecology, maintenance, and seasonality — that govern how trees are matched to designed landscapes. Botanical descriptions ground each species in science. The result is a compendium that bridges professional knowledge and genuine enthusiasm, equally useful to the practising landscape architect making planting decisions and the curious reader wanting to understand why certain species recur across the discipline.
Key Features
- 256 pages of practitioner insights, scholarly essays, project documentation, and botanical species descriptions
- Edited by Ron Henderson, Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago
- Over 30 projects from around the world selected by 30 international landscape architects
- Published by Birkhäuser, ISBN: 9783035627312
What You'll Discover
- How leading landscape architects form meaningful relationships with specific tree species and translate that knowledge into built work
- The scholarly criteria — typology, ecology, maintenance, and seasonality — that inform tree selection in landscape design practice
- Botanical grounding for each species discussed, connecting design thinking to horticultural and ecological fact
- A global survey of completed landscape projects in which trees are the primary design instrument, not decorative afterthought
About the Author
Ron Henderson is Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is also the founding principal of LIRIO Landscape Architecture.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 256
- Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035627312
- Publisher: Birkhäuser
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Landscape architects and students seeking both design inspiration and technical grounding in tree selection, as well as architects, urban designers, and serious garden makers with an interest in planting as a design discipline.