https://landezine.com Landscape Architecture Platform Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:22:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://landezine.com/marina-cervera-on-the-evolving-barcelona-landscape-biennial-and-its-upcoming-13th-edition/ https://landezine.com/marina-cervera-on-the-evolving-barcelona-landscape-biennial-and-its-upcoming-13th-edition/#respond Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:22:12 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125430 Between 17 and 21 November 2025, the 13th International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona will take place under the motto Natural Intelligence. Since its beginnings in 1999, the Biennial has become one of the most significant international platforms for landscape architecture — a space where practice, research, and education converge. We spoke with Marina Cervera, executive […]]]> https://landezine.com/marina-cervera-on-the-evolving-barcelona-landscape-biennial-and-its-upcoming-13th-edition/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/jens-linnet-bogl-no-fixed-method-attuned-response/ https://landezine.com/jens-linnet-bogl-no-fixed-method-attuned-response/#respond Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:28:33 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125226 BOGL are the recipients of the 2025 LILA Office Award. They operate from offices in Copenhagen and Oslo with a steady focus on the shared grounds of urban life. Rather than seeking signature forms, the practice has built its reputation on attentiveness — to site conditions, to communities, to the long horizons of climate change, […]]]> https://landezine.com/jens-linnet-bogl-no-fixed-method-attuned-response/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/debra-solomon-multispecies-urbanism/ https://landezine.com/debra-solomon-multispecies-urbanism/#respond Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:32:35 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125019 Multispecies Urbanism (MU) concept proposes that cities be designed and governed for the multispecies whole. In her manifesto, artist, infrastructure activist, and researcher Debra Solomon argues that healthy urban environments for humans are inseparable from the flourishing of other species and their microbial consortia. MU treats ecological labour—cooling, water buffering, pollination, soil formation—as infrastructural work […]]]> https://landezine.com/debra-solomon-multispecies-urbanism/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/engaged-art-in-public-space-speaking-to-the-city/ https://landezine.com/engaged-art-in-public-space-speaking-to-the-city/#respond Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:23:30 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=123097 In this article, we enter into a conversation with Danilo Milovanović (DNLM), an artist based in Slovenia, whose practice in public space leaves behind socio-political and environmentally engaged commentaries. His interventions open up civic debate and make visible the tensions that shape contemporary urban life. Trained in the visual arts, Milovanović positions his practice outside […]]]> https://landezine.com/engaged-art-in-public-space-speaking-to-the-city/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/dr-giovanni-aloi-the-lawn-nothing-to-do-with-nature/ https://landezine.com/dr-giovanni-aloi-the-lawn-nothing-to-do-with-nature/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:15:09 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122624 In the U.S., lawns cover nearly 2 percent of the land surface and, as researcher Cristina Milesi revealed using satellite data, “could be considered the single largest irrigated crop in America”—their total area is three times larger than that of irrigated cornfields. The infatuation with lawns runs so deep that, in some cases, failing to […]]]> https://landezine.com/dr-giovanni-aloi-the-lawn-nothing-to-do-with-nature/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/tempelhofer-feld-winning-proposals-prioritize-preservation-over-construction-yet-the-pressure-continues/ https://landezine.com/tempelhofer-feld-winning-proposals-prioritize-preservation-over-construction-yet-the-pressure-continues/#respond Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:20:44 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122021 Tempelhofer Feld, one of Europe’s largest urban open spaces, has long been a focal point of debate, particularly since its closure as an airport in 2008. Over the years, the site has sparked public protests, legal disputes, and heated discussions about its future. Now, after a highly anticipated international competition, the winning proposals have been […]]]> https://landezine.com/tempelhofer-feld-winning-proposals-prioritize-preservation-over-construction-yet-the-pressure-continues/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/straub-thurmayr-horizon-of-understanding/ https://landezine.com/straub-thurmayr-horizon-of-understanding/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:05:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121362 Anna Thurmayr and Dietmar Straub, operating from Winnipeg, Canada, approach landscape architecture less as a matter of monumental authorship and more as a form of quiet insurgency. Their practice resists spectacle, embracing instead small yet resonant gestures, collective processes, and deep attentiveness to context—whether planting 20,000 crocuses into a lawn or constructing an ephemeral Snow […]]]> https://landezine.com/straub-thurmayr-horizon-of-understanding/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lars-hopstock-hermann-mattern-idyll-and-ideology/ https://landezine.com/lars-hopstock-hermann-mattern-idyll-and-ideology/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:51:20 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121038 Lars Hopstock’s Idyll and Ideology: Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live In is a heavy-lifter historiographic study. Published by Jovis in 2024, the volume arrives as a carefully crafted and tactile artefact in Jagd style, with hunting-green viscose-flocked covers reminiscent of a mounted trophy. Indeed, Hopstock has ventured deeply into archival “woods”, emerging with meticulous evidence and nuanced narratives around Hermann Mattern (1902–1971), one of Germany's most significant yet contentious landscape architects. His expansive research not only sets the bar incredibly high for any similar undertakings but vividly frames Mattern’s navigation between aesthetic idyll and loaded ideology.]]> https://landezine.com/lars-hopstock-hermann-mattern-idyll-and-ideology/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/surfacedesign-there-is-no-fixed-formula/ https://landezine.com/surfacedesign-there-is-no-fixed-formula/#respond Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:29:05 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121103 Led by James A. Lord and Roderick Wyllie, Surfacedesign, Inc. is a San Francisco–based landscape architecture and urban design studio known for bold, material-driven work that blends architectural clarity with a sculptural, site-attuned sensibility. From public parks and international airports to intimate gardens and experimental studios, their projects push against the conventions of globalised sameness, […]]]> https://landezine.com/surfacedesign-there-is-no-fixed-formula/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/bap-2025-by-agence-ter-we-the-climate/ https://landezine.com/bap-2025-by-agence-ter-we-the-climate/#respond Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:54:20 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120949 The 2025 edition of the Biennale d’Architecture et de Paysage (BAP!) is taking place in Versailles from May 7 to July 13. This third edition, titled “The Living City”, focuses on preserving life in all its forms amidst climate disruption and dwindling resources. It aims to open new perspectives and sharing of knowledge and innovation […]]]> https://landezine.com/bap-2025-by-agence-ter-we-the-climate/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lucia-tozzi-human-desertification-in-competing-cities/ https://landezine.com/lucia-tozzi-human-desertification-in-competing-cities/#respond Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:43:59 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120666 Lucia Tozzi is a Milano-based journalist and urban researcher known for her incisive critiques of gentrification, tourism-driven development, and the commodification of public space. Her writing spans cultural criticism, investigative reporting, and political analysis, appearing in publications such as Il Tascabile, NERO, Altreconomia, il manifesto, and other journals. She is the editor and author of […]]]> https://landezine.com/lucia-tozzi-human-desertification-in-competing-cities/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/anette-freytag-academia-can-and-must-reach-the-public/ https://landezine.com/anette-freytag-academia-can-and-must-reach-the-public/#comments Thu, 29 May 2025 07:48:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120693 Dr. Anette Freytag is a relentless researcher, moving between academia, activism, and public engagement. She taught at ETH Zurich, the University of Basel, and the Technical University of Innsbruck before joining Rutgers University, where she is the Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape Architecture at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Freytag […]]]> https://landezine.com/anette-freytag-academia-can-and-must-reach-the-public/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/de-demonising-fire-designing-with-disturbance/ https://landezine.com/de-demonising-fire-designing-with-disturbance/#respond Mon, 26 May 2025 10:17:49 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120532 The volume On the Side of Fire. Rites, approaches and cultivation practices in landscapes is the twenty-first edition in the “Memorie” series by the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche (FBSR), a Treviso-based international centre for landscape studies and research, founded by Luciano Benetton in 1987, focusing on history, geography, natural and cultural heritage. Opening space for […]]]> https://landezine.com/de-demonising-fire-designing-with-disturbance/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-europe-full-of-life/ https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-europe-full-of-life/#respond Wed, 07 May 2025 11:33:41 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120153 The Landscape Architecture Europe Foundation (LAE) has published the 7th edition of its book series, titled Full of Life. With each issue released triennially, the editorial board delves into high-quality landscape architecture projects, tracing the evolution of this young profession and highlighting the significance of addressing climate and social issues while crafting beautiful spaces. The […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-europe-full-of-life/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/soil-contains-social-relations-and-its-our-external-gut-thinking-through-soil-by-seth-denizen/ https://landezine.com/soil-contains-social-relations-and-its-our-external-gut-thinking-through-soil-by-seth-denizen/#respond Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:14:40 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119741 The book, Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley, by Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen, came out last week, published by Harvard University Design Press. It is an enormous study, partly conducted through the Thinking Through Soil studio course at the GSD, Department of Landscape Architecture, and with the help of the […]]]> https://landezine.com/soil-contains-social-relations-and-its-our-external-gut-thinking-through-soil-by-seth-denizen/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/pleasure-gardens-self-actualization/ https://landezine.com/pleasure-gardens-self-actualization/#respond Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:09:45 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119761 The first parks open to the public in Western society date back to the late 18th century, with the Englischer Garten in Munich (1789), named by the renowned Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, followed by Maksimir Park in Zagreb (1794). Birkenhead Park, described as a “People’s Garden” by Olmsted and designed by Joseph Paxton in Liverpool […]]]> https://landezine.com/pleasure-gardens-self-actualization/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/retreat-as-approach-landscapes-of-retreat-by-rosetta-s-elkin/ https://landezine.com/retreat-as-approach-landscapes-of-retreat-by-rosetta-s-elkin/#respond Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:32:07 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119636 Landscapes of Retreat, a book by Rosetta S. Elkin, is informed by land-based practice, observation, and paying close attention to the multifaceted changes occurring in landscapes and their impact on communities. The second edition of this award-winning book (originally published in 2022), which gained considerable attention within the landscape architecture community, has been released this […]]]> https://landezine.com/retreat-as-approach-landscapes-of-retreat-by-rosetta-s-elkin/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/edible-earth-with-dr-masharu/ https://landezine.com/edible-earth-with-dr-masharu/#respond Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:25:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119442 Soil is a strange soup of minerals, organic matter, gases and liquids, bound to mediate between lower and higher strata. While one can think of soil eating as bizarre, one can also imagine taking minerals in a form of a pill and why one wouldn’t eat forest soil or soils outside polluted areas? It gives […]]]> https://landezine.com/edible-earth-with-dr-masharu/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/being-hyper-aware-cobe/ https://landezine.com/being-hyper-aware-cobe/#respond Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:45:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119409 Cobe is on the side of the “progressives” in the profession, working at one of the most urban-eco-technologically progressive centres worldwide, Copenhagen in Denmark. Their merging of cross-disciplinary work into a “meaningful whole”, creating interfaces at different scales of contact, pushing the boundaries of engagement – from the threshold of their office, into the neighbouring […]]]> https://landezine.com/being-hyper-aware-cobe/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/too-dirty-to-enter-on-passporting-traceability/ https://landezine.com/too-dirty-to-enter-on-passporting-traceability/#respond Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:41:16 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119302 In December this year, the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation will start to apply to medium and large operators and traders. For micro and small enterprises, the same rules will apply next year. This means that if a commodity, such as cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soya, rubber, or wood, and products derived from those commodities, […]]]> https://landezine.com/too-dirty-to-enter-on-passporting-traceability/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-losing-function-the-sleeping-dike-by-dingeman-deijs/ https://landezine.com/landscape-losing-function-the-sleeping-dike-by-dingeman-deijs/#respond Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:01:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118557 With a highly influential line of land artists creating large-scale earthworks, especially in the North American deserts, one asks: “Where did land art go?” Did works like The Lightning Field (1977) by Walter De Maria, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973–76), and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) conclude with Michael Heizer’s City—a project started in 1970 […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-losing-function-the-sleeping-dike-by-dingeman-deijs/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/forest-urbanisms-new-non-human-and-human-ecologies-for-the-21st-century-by-bruno-de-meulder-and-kelly-shannon/ https://landezine.com/forest-urbanisms-new-non-human-and-human-ecologies-for-the-21st-century-by-bruno-de-meulder-and-kelly-shannon/#respond Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:48:20 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117386 The book Forest Urbanisms brings together underlying ideas, the concept of forest urbanism, and global practices and research that engage with forests through a critical and nuanced lens. Using the world is forest as the guiding principle, the authors put the forest in a central role of the spatial organization across regions, scales and quantities – from a solitary tree to an interplay of buildings and trees. This expanding notion of forest expects new morphologies and typologies of forest urbanism. The authors open the controversies regarding humankind's relations to forests and offer thinking tools past the greenwashing paradigms.]]> https://landezine.com/forest-urbanisms-new-non-human-and-human-ecologies-for-the-21st-century-by-bruno-de-meulder-and-kelly-shannon/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/m-paul-friedberg-1931-2025/ https://landezine.com/m-paul-friedberg-1931-2025/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:21 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117286 We share the news of the passing of a highly influential landscape architect. His extensive body of work will continue to inspire and leave a lasting impact. Our condolences go out to his family, friends, and colleagues. Born in New York City, M. Paul Friedberg earned a B.S. in 1954 in ornamental horticulture at Cornell […]]]> https://landezine.com/m-paul-friedberg-1931-2025/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/battlefield-by-gabriella-hirst/ https://landezine.com/battlefield-by-gabriella-hirst/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:13:52 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116980 Battlefield project started when artist Gabriella Hirst discovered a rose cultivar named after the WWI battle in France in 1916, the ‘Hell of Verdun’. The act of commemorating the loss of 300,000 lives by cultivating the plant, made Gabriella think of ways the plants unknowingly contribute to shaping narratives of war and destruction. Since 2013, […]]]> https://landezine.com/battlefield-by-gabriella-hirst/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/forest-intercalations/ https://landezine.com/forest-intercalations/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:39:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116571 Collectively, all humans experience 8 billion days in 24 hours. That is about 22 million years lived in one day. When one starts to think about time in that way, it seems inevitable to envision the collective impact of human life on Earth. ]]> https://landezine.com/forest-intercalations/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/futures-of-the-river-by-landscape-architects-reimagining-birrarung/ https://landezine.com/futures-of-the-river-by-landscape-architects-reimagining-birrarung/#respond Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:22:23 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116309 At a moment when another “inanimate natural entity”, the Taranaki Maunga, a mountain in New Zealand, is granted personhood, The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne, Australia, is holding an exhibition, Reimagining Birrarung, Design Concepts for 2070, on the future of Yarra River, it’s catchment area and people, envisioned by landscape architects. The exhibition […]]]> https://landezine.com/futures-of-the-river-by-landscape-architects-reimagining-birrarung/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/kamel-louafis-arabesques/ https://landezine.com/kamel-louafis-arabesques/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:25:21 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115685 Kamel Louafi is a landscape architect with a touch of classic grandiose. His work is instilled with a perennial feel that abides by the expressive tools of the visual art theory yet includes a strong design voice of personal poetics. The difference Kamel Louafi creates, the un-anonymity of his work could be even marked as […]]]> https://landezine.com/kamel-louafis-arabesques/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/if-its-green-its-good-modern-urban-ecology-by-del-tredici/ https://landezine.com/if-its-green-its-good-modern-urban-ecology-by-del-tredici/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:36:37 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115794 Del Tredici’s argument is that these spontaneous plants are “de facto native urban flora” considering the novel conditions produced by humans. It is an argument against perceiving spontaneous vegetation including invasive, non-native plants and plants considered as weeds, to be less worthy. Labelling a plant “invasive” or “weed”, says Del Tredici, gives people the licence to blame it for ruining the environment and to get rid of it.]]> https://landezine.com/if-its-green-its-good-modern-urban-ecology-by-del-tredici/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/daniel-ganz-landscape-architecture-is-independent/ https://landezine.com/daniel-ganz-landscape-architecture-is-independent/#respond Mon, 20 Jan 2025 09:54:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115605 Daniel Ganz is a founder of a renowned office based in Zurich, Ganz Landschaftsarchitekten, whose work received many recognitions by opening the field into diverse directions resulting in unusual designs. In 2021, the monograph Ganz – Contemporary Swiss Landscape Architecture was published, presenting the reader with 10 works outlined by key themes like pleasure, labour, […]]]> https://landezine.com/daniel-ganz-landscape-architecture-is-independent/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/alexis-sanal-on-ordinary-utopias/ https://landezine.com/alexis-sanal-on-ordinary-utopias/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:08:03 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115091 "The tool is trying to counter the friction of power and reposition power as cooperation and co-creation early on to generate mature design briefs from the get-go. And that the process of participating for all parties is not a drudgery of boredom, frustrations and resulting anger or dismissal of feedback loops" ]]> https://landezine.com/alexis-sanal-on-ordinary-utopias/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-as-a-common-field-landscape-research-group/ https://landezine.com/landscape-as-a-common-field-landscape-research-group/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:31:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114917 Landscape Research Group (LRG) is a long-standing international and interdisciplinary community founded in England in 1967, dedicated to advancing landscape research. Landscape is a field of interest for many professionals, including geographers, archaeologists, ecologists, lawyers, urban planners, landscape architects and others, whose work can be reciprocally informed by sharing research and practices.  LRG is a […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-as-a-common-field-landscape-research-group/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-gardens-of-la-gara-by-anette-freytag/ https://landezine.com/the-gardens-of-la-gara-by-anette-freytag/#respond Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:53:06 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114717 One would ask what is a motif today to collect such a volume book about one particular garden. One could answer: Because it’s La Gara, one exclusive example of a manor garden in Geneva that has undergone a continuous transformation by 18 generations of owners, and even squatters, with the first mention in 1555, up […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-gardens-of-la-gara-by-anette-freytag/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/culture-of-artifacts-postnatural-by-richard-pell/ https://landezine.com/culture-of-artifacts-postnatural-by-richard-pell/#respond Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:29:42 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113761 Domesticated and genetically engineered organisms are usually overlooked by natural museums and institutions for cultural history. There is no space for artifacts such as dogs, chickens and corn. The Center for PostNatural History is the sequel to the natural history museum, and takes agriculture’s evolution as a starting point. CPNH focuses on the deliberate alterations […]]]> https://landezine.com/culture-of-artifacts-postnatural-by-richard-pell/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/how-not-to-build-tempelhofer-feld/ https://landezine.com/how-not-to-build-tempelhofer-feld/#comments Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:23:16 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113980 The famous Bartleby quote: “I would prefer not to”, is often the paradoxical silent monologue of a professional working in development. You need the job but you don’t always believe the project’s brief is fully justified, in line with the values and needs of users, sometimes even feels forced to produce revenue which can put […]]]> https://landezine.com/how-not-to-build-tempelhofer-feld/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/the-dutch-landscape-by-alexandra-tisma-han-lorzing/ https://landezine.com/the-dutch-landscape-by-alexandra-tisma-han-lorzing/#respond Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:05:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113398 The Dutch Landscape, The Ultimate Guide for Study, Professional and Personal Use by Alexandra Tišma[1] and Han Lörzing[2] is a “text-book” and a thorough yet very accessible guide on landscapes in the Netherlands – described from many angles and scales, historical, geographical, geological and biotic layers, cultural landscapes, from development, and planning to conservation – […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-dutch-landscape-by-alexandra-tisma-han-lorzing/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/art-rethinking-nature-giovanni-aloi/ https://landezine.com/art-rethinking-nature-giovanni-aloi/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:22:38 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113322 Giovanni Aloi is an author, curator, and creator with a PhD from Goldsmiths University, focusing on natural history in art representation. His work examines depictions of flora and fauna to uncover societal values and foster shifts in these through critical reflection. Through publishing, curating exhibitions, delivering talks, and editing Antennae: The Journal of Nature in […]]]> https://landezine.com/art-rethinking-nature-giovanni-aloi/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/codesigning-hope-aqueous-landscapes-in-transition-by-laura-cipriani/ https://landezine.com/codesigning-hope-aqueous-landscapes-in-transition-by-laura-cipriani/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:03:39 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112902 Laura Cipriani is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Delft University of Technology and a founder of Superlandscape, a landscape and urban design firm. She holds a Ph.D. in Landscape Urbanism from IUAV, a master’s degree in landscape and urban issues from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a master’s in Architecture from IUAV. […]]]> https://landezine.com/codesigning-hope-aqueous-landscapes-in-transition-by-laura-cipriani/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/charged-landscapes-nuclear-chronicles-by-andrew-madl/ https://landezine.com/charged-landscapes-nuclear-chronicles-by-andrew-madl/#respond Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:29:25 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113146 The Nuclear Chronicles: Design Research on the Landscapes of the U.S. Nuclear Highway by Andrew Madl is an exploration of unrealized U.S. government nuclear proposals and their speculative impact on the western landscape. Through fictional narratives in a graphic novel format, the book imagines cultural and ecological shifts, illustrating infrastructures and economies that might emerge […]]]> https://landezine.com/charged-landscapes-nuclear-chronicles-by-andrew-madl/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/ https://landezine.com/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:00:08 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112035 Planet City is a worldbuilding project by Liam Young, envisioned as a multilayered city, occupying as little as 0,02 percent of Earth's surface yet hosting all of the human population. Planet City is testing the Half-Earth idea by Edward O. Wilson, where we put aside half of the planet, to keep biodiversity. We spoke with Liam Young about the idea and the exhibition he curates, Visions of Planet City.]]> https://landezine.com/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/ https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:31:22 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112385 Almost every park needs a playground area and children’s playgrounds are one of the toughest typologies to design. The equipment available is either ugly or beyond budget, especially in the public realm. Then the programme is repetitive — poles, slides, swings, climbing walls, sandpits. For the designer to cover the developmental needs of all ages […]]]> https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/sara-eichner-on-public-and-data-through-design/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 07:33:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111401 Sara Eichner is a visual artist and designer with a keen interest in data visualisations and cartography. She works with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and programming languages like Python and uses design software to translate data into comprehensible visual stories. Her work is people-centred and she often uses data to represent less-heard voices. Eichner is […]]]> https://landezine.com/tropical-forest-versus-mies-van-der-rohe-by-caio-reisewitz/ https://landezine.com/tropical-forest-versus-mies-van-der-rohe-by-caio-reisewitz/#respond Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:30:07 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111176 Caio Reisewitz has created an artistic intervention in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, titled “Suspendre el Cel”. To Suspend the Sky is the artist’s reference to activists shamans Davi Kopenawa and Ailton Krenak, alluding to Indigenous practices and beliefs of Amazonian people that the earth is made out of the sky, so the sky […]]]> https://landezine.com/tropical-forest-versus-mies-van-der-rohe-by-caio-reisewitz/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/book-c-th-sorensen-39-unusual-gardens-for-an-ordinary-house/ https://landezine.com/book-c-th-sorensen-39-unusual-gardens-for-an-ordinary-house/#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:54:21 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110626 The book by the legendary Danish landscape architect, Carl Theodor Sørensen (1893-1979), originally published in 1966, is for the first time published in English, with a foreword by Joost Emmerik and an Introduction by Lodewijk Wiegersma. Published by Blawdruk Publishers and Sonja Poll, the 39 Unusual Gardens for an Ordinary House is a landmark book […]]]> https://landezine.com/book-c-th-sorensen-39-unusual-gardens-for-an-ordinary-house/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/under-the-bridge/ https://landezine.com/under-the-bridge/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:41:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=109483 Bridges allow the landscape to flow underneath – or as in recent endeavours, in land bridges or ecoducts, nature flows over. In the latter, a bridge adjoins disconnected landscape portions created by cuts in the terrain. In any case, bridges form connections and links when a river or other barrier needs to be crossed. As […]]]> https://landezine.com/under-the-bridge/feed/ 4 https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-ethics-and-design-with-nature-debunking-ian-mcharg/ https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-ethics-and-design-with-nature-debunking-ian-mcharg/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:06:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108472 In the conversation with the landscape architecture professor, artist and writer Denise Hoffman Brandt, we speak about the morality issues attached to “doing good” while debunking Ian McHarg’s problematic position in Design with Nature. In the conversation, Brandt points out how our assumptions about nature shape our actions, why stewardship is problematic and what landscape […]]]> https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-ethics-and-design-with-nature-debunking-ian-mcharg/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lydia-kallipoliti-histories-of-ecological-design/ https://landezine.com/lydia-kallipoliti-histories-of-ecological-design/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:06:06 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=107875 In the talk, Lydia Kallipoliti – #architect #educator #researcher #thinker – presents her newly published book Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia, followed by a Q&A where we talk about the intentions of writing the book, about how the “waste speaks of the incomplete perception of the World”, the psychological profile of ecological designers and […]]]> https://landezine.com/lydia-kallipoliti-histories-of-ecological-design/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/palimpsestous-landscapes-post-industrial-parks/ https://landezine.com/palimpsestous-landscapes-post-industrial-parks/#comments Fri, 03 May 2024 10:52:11 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106504 A post-industrial park is typically a sexy landmark, easy to make a story of, photogenic, and a palimpsest in itself. It presents a victory of public use over the private and industrial by opening previously closed-off spaces. A post-industrial park offers some crucial topics of remediation, adaptive reuse, and social integration, among others. For a […]]]> https://landezine.com/palimpsestous-landscapes-post-industrial-parks/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/circles-disks-and-rings/ https://landezine.com/circles-disks-and-rings/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:36:25 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=105586 Observed as a recurring phenomenon in nature and universally interpreted, the circle stands as a fundamental geometric shape. It symbolizes various concepts such as infinity and unity, among others. In constructed environments, the focal or central point of a circle can be represented by a tree as the axis mundi, a fire pit or an […]]]> https://landezine.com/circles-disks-and-rings/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/the-novel-city-faux-nature-maze/ https://landezine.com/the-novel-city-faux-nature-maze/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:42:53 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104755 When we speak of Nature in cities, the question we want to stress is, is nature in cities natural or in fact an artefact? When we speak of natural processes, they of course take place but apart from spontaneous nature, left to random succession, emerging in spaces that Gilles Clément calls the third landscapes, there […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-novel-city-faux-nature-maze/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/ https://landezine.com/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/#comments Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:40:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104001 HPO is an art and event-architecture group from Ferrara. Their work has been, among other venues, presented at Milan Design Week and 18. Venice Biennale. In the interview, we discuss the marginal position, DIY, incomplete architecture and the importance of play.]]> https://landezine.com/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/ https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/#respond Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:49:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103907 Landezine talks to Andre Dekker, who, together with Ruud Reutelingsperger, Lieven Poutsma and Geert van de Camp, forms a public art collective Observatorium. In the video, Dekker gives a 30-minute-long presentation of some of Observatorium’s most recent and most important works. Their artworks traverse the realms of urban planning, landscape design, architectural innovation, and artistic […]]]> https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/ https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:03:39 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=102644 Landezine met with Taktyk at the XII Barcelona International Landscape Biennial in November 2023, at the same place where we made the first interview, seven years ago. Taktyk’s work is a collage of collaborations showing sensitivity to the site, tackling its most vulnerable spots. Sébastien Penfornis and Thierry Kandjee seek through prospective visions, on-site works […]]]> https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/feed/ 0