Modern Landscape features over 30 international projects, including schemes by both architects and landscape architects, often working in collaboration. Following an in-depth introduction, the book is arranged in four thematic sections of extensively illustrated case studies, each of which deals with a different aspect of landscape design - Parkland, Architecture as Landscape, Garden Landscapes and Urban Interventions - to identify it in the light of historical and contemporary precedents.

Michael Spens is Reader in Architecture at Dundee University. He has written extensively on the subject of landscape, focusing especially on the integration of buildings with landscape. His books include Landscape Transformed (editor, 1995), The Complete Landscape Designs and Gardens of Geoffrey Jellicoe (1994) and Viipuri Library by Alvar Aalto (1993). He has been awarded a knighthood in Finland for his services to architecture.