Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #227231 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

A must-have for landscape architecture students and design professionals!
Professor Stein was the Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program in the School of Architecture, University of Southern California (USC) when I was studying in USC. She is one of the best teachers and most talented professors that I have ever met and I learned a lot from her, including motivation for study, design methodology, landscape theory, etc. She was my teacher and she'll always be my teacher. I have great respect for her.

Even though there are a variety of garden styles in the world, they can be put into two major landscaping systems: formal gardens and naturalistic gardens. The formal gardens are represented by Egyptian gardens, Persian gardens, Islamic gardens, Moroccan gardens, Italian gardens, French gardens, some American gardens and some English gardens, etc. The naturalistic gardens are represented by Chinese traditional gardens, some English gardens, some Japanese gardens and some American gardens, etc.

Professor Stein has done research on gardens in arid climates for decades. "Morocco: Courtyards and Gardens" is a significant contribution to the field of landscape architecture. It is extremely well-written and comprehensive, filled with striking photos. It covers the social and cultural influences, basic Moroccan garden categories and layout, plant materials, ornamental schemes, and shade and shadow, etc.

"Morocco: Courtyards and Gardens" is one of the best on this subject. It is written by a great professor with many years of experience and excellent design expertise. It is a must-have for landscape architecture students and design professionals!

Gang Chen, Author of "LEED AP Exam Guide" & "Planting Design Illustrated." LEED AP, AIA

Misleading title: Rural Morocco
This is a beautiful illustrated book about rural Morocco. It is not exclusively about Moroccan courtyards and gardens. Many illustrations are of the Moroccan countryside within the context of deprivation of resources, poverty and faded grandeur. It is page 50 before the first illustration of a courtyard (in Fez). And there is one chapter titled Courtyard Gardens, which is two pages long and has one illustration. There are no illustrations of private courtyards and gardens, many illustrations are of mosque or palace gardens. I admit I was looking for a book that would help me create a Moroccan themed courtyard garden, and this was not it.