READ AND WATCH

Those interested in pursuing landscape architecture at the University of Tennessee are encouraged to read, watch, listen, and explore some of the following resources. This evolving list is intended to not only provide students with a survey of important or canonical texts, media, and tools for the discipline of landscape architecture, it is also intended to provide an understanding of the particular attitude through which the discipline is engaged at UT. 
BLOGS
BldgBlog
The Dirt
Landscape Archipelago
Mammoth
Pruned
BOOKS
Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy by Dave Hickey
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture by Bradley Cantrell and Wes Michaels
Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America by Alan Berger
Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics by Timothy Morton
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Graphic Design for Architects by Karen Lewis
The Landscape Urbanism Reader by Charles Waldheim
Landscape Architecture and Digital Technologies: Reconceptualising Design and Making by Jillian Walliss and Heike Rahmann
Learning from Logistics by Clare Lyster
Living Systems by Liat Margolis and Alexander Robinson
Modern Landscape Architecture: A Critical Review by Marc Treib
The Necessity For Ruins: And Other Topics by J.B. Jackson
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture edited by James Corner
Representing Landscapes edited by Nadia Amoroso
Representing Landscapes: Digital edited by Nadia Amoroso
Responsive Landscapes: Strategies for Responsive Technologies in Landscape Architecture by Bradley Cantrell and Justine Holzman
Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings edited by Nancy Holt
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Toward an Urban Ecology by Kate Orff/Scape
Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications edited by Niemela et al.
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
ESSAYS
Corporate Ecologies by Brett Milligan
From Architecture to Landscape: The Case for a New Landscape Science by Brian Davis and Thomas Oles
Isthmus by Brian Davis, Rob Holmes, and Brett Milligan
Patent and Place: Intellectual Property and Site-Specificity by Rich Hindle
Poli-Fi by R.E. Somol
Slipstreaming by Gale Fulton and Stewart Hicks
Towards Landscape Intelligence by Gale Fulton
FILM
The Big Lebowski, directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
Dogtown and Z-Boys, directed by Stacy Peralta
Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas directed by Terry Gilliam
The Fifth Element, directed by Luc Besson
Fight Club, directed by David Fincher
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