What landscape architects need to know. Ruderal’s landscape on the outskirts of the Georgian capital celebrates imprecision ...
What landscape architects need to know. The honor for Grupo de Diseño Urbano reflects founder Mario Schjetnan’s focus on ...
In 1999, 20 years after establishing the design practice Grupo de Diseño Urbano in Mexico City, Mario Schjetnan, FASLA, then 55, accepted a job as the director of the University of Arizona’s landscape ...
A zigzagging network of wide paved paths brings pedestrians and cyclists down to the lake. Photo by Jin He-Candido, ASLA. “Everything in Lakeshore East is built up, not down,” says Linda Kozloski, the ...
Ipe is the most common tropical hardwood decking material in the United States, but the way it is harvested has raised concerns among ecologists. Photo by Jane Hutton. “This John Chipman bench was ...
A humble attitude brought the Charlotte firm work for three decades. Pulling out of the recession called for bolder moves. In 2014, six years after the Great Recession showed up at LandDesign’s ...
Unlike architecture, landscape architecture evolves (and almost always improves) through time. Its parks and gardens are never complete. Or rather the finished landscape of today is not the finished ...
Landscape architects are working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and building new networks through the Engineering With Nature program. The implications could be transformative for both. Monica ...
Plant-hunting is always in season at the Leach Botanical Garden in Portland, Oregon, the storybook base of the botanist Lilla Leach, where Land Morphology has begun a next-century upgrade to the ...
It was raining, so we crouched, rather than sat, in the grassy bowl that Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, had envisioned as the centerpiece of the newly completed green space and playground on Pier 3, ...
“This is one of the rarest trees in the United States,” says Andrew Wyatt of the Missouri Botanical Garden, pointing to one of two Virginia round-leaf birch trees planted outside the garden’s new Jack ...
As Canada comes to terms with a brutal colonial legacy, two landscape architect-led plans light the way toward reconciliation. The plan proposes a range of site infrastructure and interpretation, ...