Research Guides: Landscape Architecture: Media

Citing Films or Videos

Title of Film or Video. Name of Director, Film Studio or Distributor, and the Release Year.

You may include other data that seems pertinent such as names of the screenwriter, performers, and producer after the name of the director. For films dubbed or subtitled in English, you may give the English title and follow it with the original title, italicized, in square brackets.

The format (film, DVD, VHS, etc.) on which the work was viewed is no longer included.

Example - Film, Video, DVD, VHS, etc.:

It's a Wonderful Life. Directed by Frank Capra, performances by James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, and Thomas Mitchell, RKO, 1946.

For audio and video content found online, include descriptive information to help readers understand the type of source you are citing. If the author and the uploader are the same, only cite once. If they are different, place the author’s name before the title.

Example - YouTube, Vimeo, etc:

“Academy of Art University April 2009 Fashion Show.” YouTube, uploaded by Academy of Art University, 29 June 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUFar8VwJXY.

Selected DVDs for Landscape Architecture

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life
Biophilic Design points the way toward creating healthy and productive habitats for modern humans.
e² Design Season 1
An original six-part series that explores the vitality of the environment through eco-friendly architecture. Traversing the globe, the series chronicles important stories of green architecture as they exist in New York, Chicago, China, and into the future. Narrated by Brad Pitt and masterfully shot in high-definition, the series introduces us to the inventive leaders and technologies driving sustainable practices worldwide in the design of buildings where we live, work, and play
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Contents: The green apple -- Green for all -- The green machine -- Gray to green -- China : from red to green -- Deeper shades of green.
e² Design Season 2
Global in scope and comprised of six 30-minute chapters filmed in HD, e² design season two features the designers and drivers of change in the world of sustainable architecture. Equal parts visual style and storytelling acumen, each episode explores the potential of the built environment to help reverse our global climate crisis.
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Contents: The Druk White Lotus School, Ladakh -- Greening the federal government -- Bogotá : building a sustainable city -- Affordable green housing -- Adaptive reuse in the Netherlands -- Architecture 2030
e² Design Season 3
Global in scope and comprised of six 30-minute chapters filmed in HD, e² design season three features the innovators and pioneers in the world of sustainable architecture. This ongoing series explores real solutions to pressing environmental and social challenges, presented with a combination of compelling storytelling, provocative cinematography and an emotive original music score.
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Contents: A garden in Cairo -- The village architect -- Melbourne reborn -- The art & science of Renzo Piano -- New Orleans : the water line -- Super use
The Garden
The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Chronicles the history of America's national parks system from its birth in the middle 1800s to the present day.
Olmsted and America's Urban Parks
This film examines the creation of America's great city parks in the late 1800s through the enigmatic eyes of Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary urban planner and landscape architect.
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
A small group of observers, the "Street Life Project", sets out to study how people use the parks and plazas of the city. With the help of time-lapse filming they find that what makes a place work are the basics--a place to sit, for example, food, sun, a passing show.
Yoshio Taniguchi: The New Museum of Modern Art
Architect Yoshio Taniguchi, revered in his native country of Japan for the design of consummately minimal museums, won the much-coveted commission to expand and renovate the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1997.

TED talks for Landscape Architecture

DVD Checkout Policies

The Academy of Art Library has an extensive film collection that is located in the main library.

Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Circulating DVDs:

3 DVDs for 3 days. 1 renewal allowed.

Course Reserve DVDs must be viewed in the library.

Faculty and Department Directors

Circulating DVDs:

5 DVDs for 7 days. 1 renewal allowed.

Course Reserve DVDs may be borrowed to screen in class and must be returned as soon as possible after viewing.