The Architecture of Trees

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.

Beautiful book and a perfect gift for my arborist father.

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.

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

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

Considering the amount of love these 2 italians put into this exquiste life's work.. the publisher could have printed it a bit nicer. The work itself is EXTRAORDINARY. If your into trees, landscaping, scientific illustration, botanical art or pen &ink.. you will find this book amazing.

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.

In depth detail. Specific information. Outstanding graphics and illustrations. Bought this as a gift for my girlfriend - who is a certified landscape designer and architect. She was blown away!!