Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture is the discipline of designing outdoor environments, from gardens to territories. The term itself has roots in 18th-century British landscape painting, where “landscape” was first framed as an aesthetic category. The French designer Jean-Marie Morel (1728–1810) is credited with formulating architecte-paysagiste, first describing himself as architecte et paysagiste before the title became formalized at his death. This origin matters: landscape architecture emerged from artifice and representation, bound up with colonial and aristocratic ideals of scenery. To decolonize the field is to question these beginnings and the exclusions they carried. Since then, landscape architecture has grown into a global practice entangled with ecology, planning, infrastructure, public space, and politics. Today, the discipline continues to expand, digesting vast issues of climate crisis, biodiversity, social justice, and community life. It is no longer only about arranging scenery but about negotiating survival and meaning across scales, situating it in public perception for confrontation, reflection, and possibly - political action.

/ Zaš Brezar

Arsenal Oasis is a unique project located in Tbilisi Georgia. It was designed for the Tbilisi Architecture Biennale by an urban design and research studio Ruderal. In this video, the designer Sarah Cowles explains the forces and circumstances that shaped the project. The LILA 2021 jury wrote: Arsenal Oasis is an experimental project that deals […]

/ Mladen Dolar

Photographs have been taken at the gardens of Versailles, on February 2015. They accompany the Slovenian translation of the tiny but marvellous book Portret srečnega človeka – André le Nôtre 1613–1700 (Portrait d’un home heureux – André le Nôtre 1613–1700), translated from French by Zoja Skušek, *cf., 2016, written by a renown French author Érik Orsenna, who, among other things, for five years presided L’ École nationale supérieure du paysage at Versailles.

/ Udo Weilacher

More and more, experts worldwide recommend „GI“ as the best remedy for all kinds of unwelcome side-effects related to current changes in the environment such as climate change, agricultural revolution, urban transformation and so on. Within the strategy “Europe 2020”, the EU for example wants to enhance Europe’s natural capital1, and the board of the […]

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