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"Any landscape architect worth their soil should pick up The Architecture of Trees , an all-encompassing atlas of all things tree-related."-- The Architect's Newspaper



An incredible book for anyone interested in trees, this botanical masterwork's new edition preserves the original magnificent illustrations and text, translated into English for the first time. Selected as an "Oprah's Favorite Things" pick upon its release, The Architecture of Trees is a gorgeous, large-format volume that features more than 550 exquisite quill-pen drawings of trees. The result of over twenty years of dedicated study by landscape architects Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi, this is a legendary and unsurpassed masterwork.



This new edition's features include: Each of the 212 tree species drawn to a scale of 1:100, with and without foliage. Tables of seasonal color variation and projections of shadows cast during the hours of daylight and season by season. Detailed and scientific drawings found in no other tree book.

Considered a standard in many landscape architecture firms, this botany book's drawings, essays, and charts are essential for large-scale landscaping projects and a helpful tool for backyard renovations. Landscape designers will think in new ways about the effect of seasons and the time of day on trees, and anyone interested in nature and trees will be captivated by the hand-drawn illustrations, each stunning in detail.



An oversized, captivating coffee table book for lovers of art and nature illustrations, The Architecture of Trees "could be considered the Bible for tree lovers " ( Western Art & Architecture ). With its accurate drawings of trees and detailed looks at branches, leaves, and fruit, it also serves as a helpful tree identification book and a reference guide for landscape architecture, botany, dendrology, architecture, and illustration students.

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Scientists studying trees have considered all aspects except beauty. Landscape architects consider form along with technical details of size, transparency, and shape, but they typically stop just short of beauty. Architects Leonardi and Stagi, however, use the tools of evolutionists and engineers to create an aesthetic sense of trees. They do so by being overly precise: colored diagrams to capture the dominant color of each species through the seasons, analyses of shadows cast, and 368 highly realistic black-and-white drawings of whole trees and 180 of their parts. Flipping page after page slowly seduces the scientist into considering beauty. This oversized book (15 by 10 inches) would make a bold statement on any coffee table, but the drawings, systematic arrangement of species, detailed species listings, translation of Latin names, and the aforementioned color phenology and shadow sequences make this much more than an "art" book. The drawings are rendered so precisely that leaf shapes, crown architecture, and stem structure are captured. To call them works of art is appropriate, but they are more accurately said to be works of some hybrid of art and science. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels. --George C. Stevens, formerly, University of New Mexico

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In 1963, as an undergraduate at Florence University of the Arts, Cesare Leonardi (1935-) opened a design practice with Franca Stagi (1937-2008), a postgraduate at Milan Polytechnic. Together they designed the celebrated Nastro, Eco, and Dondolo chairs before turning to urban and landscape design, renovation, and redevelopment in Modena and its surroundings.