Simply put, Landscape for Architects is a design manual, using questions to address the key considerations of landscape architecture. "What defines the structure of the landscape?" "How can the landscape be made accessible?" "How can the past be anchored permanently in memory?" These and the dozens of other questions in each volume are accompanied by drawings, many of them populated by pictograms, and a list of reference projects, some of them keyed to the answers (precedents) that follow the questions. In turn, each concise precedent refers back to multiple questions, allowing the book to be read in multiple ways, much like navigating the internet through hyperlinks.

Everything about Landscape for Architects — its format, size, drawings, design, and concision — make it appropriate for students of landscape architecture. It's no surprise then that the book came out of seminars run by Gabriele G. Kiefer and Anika Neubauer at the Institute of Landscape Architecture | TU Braunschweig.