Chosen Books | Designers & Books

Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.

13 books

The Essential Garden Book Terence Conran et al. On Todd Oldham’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Filosofie van het landschap (Philosophy of Landscape) Ton Lemaire On Nathalie de Vries’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx Sima Eliovson On Todd Oldham’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Gardens of Russell Page Marina Schinz et al. On David Easton’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition Robert Pogue Harrison On Diana Balmori’s Book List Add to My Reading List	A History of Garden Art Marie Luise Gothein On James Biber’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Illustrations of Tree Roots Noboru Karizumi On Diana Balmori’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Landscape and Memory Simon Schama On Michael Manfredi’s Book List On Alan Balfour’s Book List Add to My Reading List
Landscapes John Brinckerhoff Jackson et al. On Denise Scott Brown’s Book List On Robert Venturi’s Book List Add to My Reading List	The Language of Landscape Anne Whiston Spirn On Craig Dykers’s Book List Add to My Reading List	A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time John Brinckerhoff Jackson On Paul Goldberger’s Book List On David Adjaye’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Tropical Modernism James Grayson Trulove On Hugh Newell Jacobsen’s Book List Add to My Reading List	Vogue’s Book of Houses, Gardens, People Valentine Lawford On Jeffrey Bilhuber’s Book List Add to My Reading List