The Architecture of Trees

Beautiful book and a perfect gift for my arborist father.

An utterly breathtaking book, full of meticulous illustrations of trees, with and without leaves, along with diagrams of their shadows through the year. I use it as inspiration for painting trees, but come back to it often just to admire the drawings.

I bought this book as a Christmas gift for a family member. He loved it! The book is absolutely gorgeous with fantastic illustration. I highly recommend if you love trees, plants, and landscape architecture.

Not only are the illustrations great, the explanations are worth reading and show us the wonderful complex world of trees

This massive book lines up images of trees, with and without their leaves, to illustrate their structure and overall shape. They are all in scale to each other, with a scale ruler included. It is an amazing source book for my studio, providing the underlying elegance of willow trees and oaks, palm trees and maples. Large and heavy. I have it propped on a drafting table. A delight for tree geeks, artists, and serious landscape designers.

Beautiful book, so many lovely drawings of trees! Nice book as a gift or just keep in the family.

This is a gorgeous coffee table book. The illustrations are framable. Unfortunately I was looking more for a winter tree ID book. This didn’t fit the bill for me. If you like black and white drawings, this book is for you. Definitely worth the price.

This book can help with winter identification when the leaves are gone. For example, the book has nice line drawings for both the red oak (Quercus rubra) and pin oak (Quercus palustris) that clearly show the pin oak has limbs and branches that are completely haywire and chaotic in comparison to the red oak. Most of the trees in the book aren't native to America, but many of our trees are no longer native because of pests and diseases. There are now many Asian and European native trees that line our streetscapes- katsura, zelkova, Japanese lilac, London Plane (a hybrid), European hornbeam, etc. Many of our non-native trees are illustrated in this book.

Este libro es hermoso de principio a fin. Una obra de arte!

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Such a great book! I bought it for the detailed illustrations so I can learn how to draw trees. It lists the Latin name for trees. Really great resource for designers, landscapers, and illustrators.

This book was well packaged and the o/seas delivery super fast. Superb content and drawings.

A must have for architects and landscape architects, but especially architects such as myself, who have no idea about the specificity of different kinds trees and shrubs, and whose knowledge on the subject ends at the level of "green" or "evergreen", big or small. The illustrations in scale are absolutely fantastic and the entire publication is very luxurious and a pleasure to hold and look at.