The Book Company: New Products - Landscape

Jiangnan from the Perspective of Cultural Heritage (Ancient Gardens in Shanghai)

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:10:11 +0000

This book explores six Ming-Qing gardens in Shanghai—Qiuxia Garden, Guyi Garden, Yu Garden, Zuibaichi Garden, Qushui Garden, and Kezhi Garden—through 202 images and expert insights, revealing the cultural essence of Jiangnan garden art. Text in English and Mandarin.

This bo..

Price: $19.95

Tracé Bleu (AS in China, 20 years of practice and beyond)

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:10:04 +0000

This book presents the "Tracé Bleu" philosophy and twenty years of Architecturestudio's projects in China, showcasing how this open framework for sustainable and humanistic design reshapes architectural practice and habitat. Text in English and Mandarin.

This book presents ..

Price: $50.95

A New Theory of Landscape Aesthetics

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:23:12 +0000

This book reexamines the philosophical bases of landscape aesthetics and integrates them with the work of psychologists and neurologists to produce a revised account of landscape appreciation. It presents modern theory on landscape appreciation for academics, researchers, practitioners and adva..

Price: $57.99

Patina Meadow

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:44:06 +0000

Welcome to the new Patina Meadow farmstead, where every structure, garden path, and gathering space tells a story.

In the latest installment of the beloved Patina series, evocative new photography and deeply personal reflections capt..

Price: $45.00

Threshold (neither outside nor in)

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:12:32 +0000

We tend not to think much about thresholds. Our attention is usually more focused on being one one side of them or the other. But the threshold is perhaps the most powerful of all the elements of architecture.

Price: $32.99

Introduction to Residential Layout

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:08:11 +0000

This book sets out the key ideas and principles that underpin the design of places where people genuinely want to live. Focusing on the medium-density housing that shapes much of the world’s development, the book explores how to organise streets, spaces and buildings to create distinctiv..

Price: $51.99

Therapeutic Landscape Research Evidence in Eco-neighbourhood Design

Wed, 27 May 2026 19:40:21 +0000

This book presents how to recreate therapeutic landscapes in everyday places of eco-neighbourhoods which are characterized by many aspects related to sustainability, including protection of the environment, building social capital, ensuring a high quality of life with low costs, and promoting s..

Price: $61.99

The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II (Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities)

Wed, 27 May 2026 18:57:02 +0000

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. This multidisciplinary collection of 36 chapters provides the reader with an extensive resource of case studies and ways of thinking for architecture and urban space to becom..

Price: $67.99

Rebuilding Urban Complexity (A Configurational Approach to Postindustrial Cities)

Wed, 27 May 2026 18:45:02 +0000

This is a book about urban complexity – how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin cities, where the many different ‘parts’ (people, streets, industry sectors) interact to form an evolving ‘whole’.

Price: $61.99

Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape (Primitivism and Progress)

Wed, 27 May 2026 18:33:47 +0000

Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape explores the impact of photography at a pivotal moment in Italian architecture and culture, focusing on the period between 1910 and the mid-1970s.

Price: $61.99