LALH Books

LALH publishes books about significant North American landscapes and the people who created them. LALH books are for general readers as well as specialists.


A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era


Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma
     

A World of Her Own Making: Katharine Smith Reynolds and the Landscape of Reynolda

Henry Shaw's Victorian Landscapes

Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect: An Account of the Gardenmaker's Life 1885-1971
     

A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hill Gardens

Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England (1852)

Midwestern Landscape Architecture
     

The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman

The Muses of Gwinn

Pioneers of American Landscape Design
(Read Index)


Reprint Series

The American Society of Landscape Architects Centennial Reprint Series commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ASLA. Each volume is reprinted from the original edition with a new illustrated introduction by an authority.


The Art of Landscape Architecture

new
The Art of Landscape Architecture (1915)
     

Landscape for Living

new
Landscape for Living (1950)

Country Life

new
Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening (1859)

Book of Landscape Gardening
(1926)


     

New Towns for Old
(1927)

Landscape Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the West
(1873)

Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect
(1902)
     

The Prarie Spirit in Landscape Gardening
(1915)

Landscape-Gardening
(1920)

The Spirit of the Garden
(1923)