Calvert Vaux (1824–1895), better known as an architect, is most frequently remembered as Frederic...

One of the most renowned landscape architects in practice today, Laurie Olin has created designs ...

Frank Albert Waugh (1869–1943) was one of the first practitioners to conceive of a history of Ame...

Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape StudiesThis award-winning book...

In 1883, Frederick Law Olmsted moved from New York City to Brookline, Massachusetts, a Boston sub...

One of the foremost landscape architects of the early twentieth century, Fletcher Steele (1885–19...

Only a few years after marrying tobacco magnate R. J. Reynolds, young Katharine Smith Reynolds (1...

As superintendent of planting in Central Park and landscape architect to New York City for nearly...

When it was founded in 1860, Chicago's Graceland was hailed as the most “modern” cemetery in exis...

Through his many books and in the Horticulturist, the nation's first journal about landscape gard...

Carol Grove chronicles Englishman Henry Shaw's remarkable story, from his early love of plants to...

In 1928, Arthur A. Shurcliff (1870–1957) began what became one of the most important examples of ...

Selected by Gardens Illustrated for 'The Best Gardening Books to Read in 2022'Selected by America...

Robert Morris Copeland (1830–1874) was one of a small number of American landscape practitioners ...

This award-winning book offers an insightful inquiry into the intellectual and cultural origins o...

In this volume Robert E. Grese gathers together writings on nature-based landscape design and con...

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Robin Karson explores the development of a distinctly Americ...

Winner, American Society of Landscape Architects Honor AwardNamed one of the 75 Best Garden Books...

Garrett Eckbo (1910–1996) was one of the most highly respected and influential American modernist...

Winner, Center for Historic Preservation Book PrizeWinner, New York City Book Award for Landscape...

Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape StudiesIn this insightful biog...

H. W. S. Cleveland (1814–1900) first explored his “organic” design approach in 1855 at Sleepy Hol...

Winner, J. B. Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape StudiesWinner, American Associ...

The first-ever study of state park segregation across the Jim Crow SouthWinner, J. B. Jackson Boo...

'an intelligent and level-headed look at the great promise and the great problems associated with...

How the work and writings of Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American landscape architectur...

John Nolen (1869–1937) was a pioneer in the development of professional town and city planning in...

The renaissance of the New York Botanical Garden is told through dozens of engaging episodes that...

The eminent preservationist, author, and landscape historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is also a co...

The essential annotated edition of Frederick Law Olmsted's first book Before he ever dreamed of b...

Marjorie Sewell Cautley presents the life and work of one of the pioneers of American landscape d...

The internationally renowned landscape architect David Kamp, FASLA, has written a personal narrat...

Ethan Carr's forthcoming book, Boston's Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City, ...

The Laurel Hill Association, founded by Mary Hopkins Goodrich in 1853, transformed the Berkshires...

Martha Brookes Hutcheson (1871–1959) was one of the first American women landscape architects to ...

After World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet funding re...

Ossian Cole Simonds (1855–1931) was one of the country's earliest and most important landscape ar...

In 1915, Wilhelm Miller (1869–1938) published The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gardening, a profus...

Boston-based landscape architect Warren H. Manning (1860-1938) forged an innovative approach to c...