Landscape Architecture Resources: Reference

• American garden literature in the Dumbarton Oaks collection (1785-1900): from the New England farmer to Italian gardens: an annotated bibliography. Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn and Jack Becker. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998.
• L'Art des jardins: catalogue des collections de la bibliotheque administrative de la Ville de Paris, de la Bibliotheque Forney, de la bibliotheque historique de la Ville de Paris, de la bibliotheque de l'ecole du Breuil. [coordination Claudine Chevrel]. Paris: Paris bibliotheques, 1999.
• Bibliography of landscape architecture, environmental design, and planning. Antoinette Paris Powell. Phoenix: Oryx Pr., 1987.
• The Built environment: a subject index 1800-1960. Brookfield, VT.: Dist. in the USA by Gower, 1989. 
  Vol. 1 includes gardens and landscape design.
• Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University.  2d ed., enl. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1968. 
  Includes landscape architecture.
• Catalogue of the Library of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1968--.
• Environmental literature: an encyclopedia of works, authors, and themes. Patricia D. Netzley, comp. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
• Gardeners delight: gardening books from 1560 to 1960. Martin Hoyles. Boulder, CO: Pluto Pr., 1994.
• The Island Press bibliography of environmental literature. Joseph A. Miller, [et al.], comps. Covelo, CA: Island Pr., 1993.
• Making educated decisions: a landscape preservation bibliography. Charles A. Birnbaum & Cheryl Wagner, eds. Washington, D.C.: Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Preservation Assistance Division, Historic Landscape Initiative, 1994.
• One hundred years of American garden design literature: 1840-1940. Roger Franklin. 1979. Master's thesis, Landscape Architecture, Univ. of California, Berkeley.

See the Plants & Horticulture section for additional encyclopedias.

• Decorating Eden: a comprehensive sourcebook of classic garden details.  Elizabeth Wilkinson and Marjorie Henderson, eds., San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992.
• Dictionary of art. Jane Turner, ed. NY: Grove, 1996. Not a dictionary, in spite of its name. Includes excellent articles on landscape topics. Bibliographies & illustrations. Available online as Grove art online.
• Dictionary of gardening. Anthony Huxley, ed. in chief; Mark Griffiths, ed. 4 vols. NY: Stockton Press, 1992. 
  Includes plant descriptions, plant science, garden history, horticultural science, gardening techniques, biographies.
• Dictionnaire historique de l'art des jardins. Michel Conan. [Paris]: Hazan, [1997]. 
  Includes quotations.
• Dictionary of environment and sustainable development. Alan Gilpin. NY: Wiley, 1996.
• Encyclopedia of gardens: history and design. Chicago Botanic Garden. Candice A. Shoemaker, ed. 3 volumes. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001--. Excellent source for landscape design history. Substantive signed articles are illustrated and each includes a brief bibliography. Chronologies of of selected projects are given for landscape designers.
• Environmental encyclopedia. William P. Cunningham ... [et al.], eds. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 1998.
• Environmental literature: an encyclopedia of works, authors, and themes. Patricia D. Netzley, comp. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
• Larousse gardening and gardens. Pierre Anglade, ed. NY: Facts On File, 1990.
• Lexicon of garden and landscape architecture. Meto J. Vroom. Boston: Birkhauser-Publishers for Architecture, 2006. Contains short illustrated articles on landscape architecture concepts and practices.
• The Oxford companion to the garden.  Patrick Taylor, ed. NY: Oxford Univ. Pr., 2006. Online table of contents. A one-volume encyclopedia of short authoritative articles on notable gardens, landscape designers, garden features, etc. New ed. of the classic The Oxford companion to gardens. Selectively illustrated. Bibliography: pp.531-538.

Electronic Resources:

See the Plants & Horticulture section for additional dictionaries.

• Dictionary - landscape and urban planning: multilingual dictionary on environmental planning, design and conservation.  Evert Klaus-Jurgen, ed. NY: Springer, 2001. English, German, French, Spanish.
• A Dictionary of environmental quotations. Barbara K. Rodes & Rice Odell, comps. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
• A Dictionary of landscape: a dictionary of terms used in the description of the world's land surface. George A. Goulty. Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1991.
• A Dictionary of landscape architecture. Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Pr., 1987.
• Dictionnaire historique de l'art des jardins. Michel Conan. [Paris]: Hazan, [1997].
• Elsevier's dictionary of environment: in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.  M. Bakr, comp. NY: Elsevier, 1998.
• The Environment dictionary.  David D. Kemp. NY: Routledge, 1998.
• The Penguin dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture. John Fleming, Hugh Honour, Nikolaus Pevsner. 5th ed. NY: Penguin Books, 1998.
• Spanish/English landscape dictionary. Sacramento: California Landscape Contractors Association, [1992?]
• A Technical glossary of horticultural and landscape terminology. Washington, DC: Horticultural Research Institute [1971]

See also the series of topical research guides to UC Berkeley Library and web resources for landscape architecture.

• Landscape architecture sourcebook: a guide to resources on the history and practice of landscape architecture in the United States. Diana Vogelsong, Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 1997.
• Thesis and dissertation research. A strategic guide for city planning, urban design, and landscape architecture graduate students beginning their thesis or dissertation work at UC Berkeley.
• The School in a garden: foundations and founders of landscape architecture. Gordon T. Millichap, J. Gordon Millichap. Chicago: PNB Publishers, 2000.

• The American Horticultural Society A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants, Christopher Brickell, Trevor Cole, eds.-in-chief. Rev. ed. NY: DK Pub., 2004.
• The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's gardener's desk reference. Janet Marinelli, general ed. NY: H. Holt, 1998.
• The Design characteristics of plant materials; plant form studies, by Gary O. Robinette, [Madison, WI, College Printing & Typing Co., 1967].
• A Gardener's book of plant names; a handbook of the meaning and origins of plant names, by Archibald Smith. NY: Harper & Row [1963].
• The Gardener's dictionary of horticultural terms, Harold Bagust, comp. NY: Dist. in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co., 1996.
• The Hillier gardener's guide to trees & shrubs: a directory of more than 4,000 high-performance trees and shrubs for the garden, John Kelly, ed.; John Hillier, consultant ed. North American ed. Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, [1997?] 
  Each listing describes the plants growth habit. The color photos are excellent; however, not all cultivars listed are illustrated. Has a greater range of plants than Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs, although Dirr's photos are generally better at giving a sense of the plant form.
• Hortus third: a concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada, L.H. Baily, comp. NY: Macmillan, 1976.
• The Oxford encyclopedia of trees of the world, Bayard Hora, consultant ed. NY: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1981. 
  Especially useful for images of trees in the landscape.
• The Plant List.  An online list of over 1.3 million different plants with images
• Plants and their names: a concise dictionary, by R. Hyam, R. Pankhurst. NY: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1995.
• Trees in the urban landscape: principles and practice, by Anthony Bradshaw, Ben Hunt, and Tim Walmsley. NY: E & FN Spon, 1995.