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/designing-for-conviviality-in-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/designing-for-conviviality-in-landscape-architecture/#respond Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:20:54 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125194 Landscape architecture should engage intensively with conviviality—it has the capacity to unify many issues in current theoretical debates and connect the discipline to the global network of the conviviality movement.]]> https://landezine.com/designing-for-conviviality-in-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/tuin-van-delft-by-boom-landscape/ https://landezine.com/tuin-van-delft-by-boom-landscape/#respond Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:44:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=124802 How do you transform an area defined by movement, flow, and bundled infrastructure into a tranquil space where passersby are invited to pause, slow down, and linger? The commission It sounds like a contradictory brief and objective: to create a climate-resilient and decelerating place at Houttuinplein in Delft, wedged between the bulwark, ‘het Huis van […]]]> https://landezine.com/tuin-van-delft-by-boom-landscape/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/17-21-november-13th-barcelona-international-landscape-biennial/ https://landezine.com/17-21-november-13th-barcelona-international-landscape-biennial/#respond Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:01:39 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125241 The 13th International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona will take place from 17 to 21 November 2025, under the Natural Intelligence?! theme. This edition explores both natural and artificial intelligences shaping contemporary landscapes and will feature a mix of free sessions, a symposium and awards, and a keynote lecture by James Bridle. The Programme Features: Sessions […]]]> https://landezine.com/17-21-november-13th-barcelona-international-landscape-biennial/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/kongjian-yu-1963-2025/ https://landezine.com/kongjian-yu-1963-2025/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:22:31 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125114 We are sad to report that Kongjian Yu died on September 23, 2025. Yu was a farmer’s son from Zhejiang who became the architect of a new ecological urbanism. After early studies in Beijing and a doctorate at Harvard GSD, he returned to China in the late 1990s to found the College of Architecture and […]]]> https://landezine.com/kongjian-yu-1963-2025/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/10-13-october-asla-2025-conference-beyond-boundaries/ https://landezine.com/10-13-october-asla-2025-conference-beyond-boundaries/#respond Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:48:45 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125103 The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) will hold its 2025 Conference on Landscape Architecture from 10 to 13 October at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. The event is the largest annual gathering of landscape architecture professionals in the world. This year’s general session keynote will be delivered by Mitch Landrieu, […]]]> https://landezine.com/10-13-october-asla-2025-conference-beyond-boundaries/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/19-21-october-aila-2025-festival-of-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/19-21-october-aila-2025-festival-of-landscape-architecture/#respond Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:38:35 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125081 The 2025 Festival of Landscape Architecture, organised by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), will take place in Nipaluna / Hobart from 19 to 21 October 2025, on the unceded lands of the Palawa people. The theme for this year’s edition is “DARK”—an inquiry into landscape through absence, ambiguity, and non-linearity. Curated by Miriam […]]]> https://landezine.com/19-21-october-aila-2025-festival-of-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/out-of-hand-on-non-humans-and-non-animals/ https://landezine.com/out-of-hand-on-non-humans-and-non-animals/#respond Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:54:47 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125024 An essay on how we push animals into playing roles — from fables and films to renders of biodiversity and art — tracing how these projections tame, abstract, or estrange, and how synurbists and artists unsettle the human–animal divide.]]> https://landezine.com/out-of-hand-on-non-humans-and-non-animals/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lois-weinberger-precise-carelessness/ https://landezine.com/lois-weinberger-precise-carelessness/#respond Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:08:37 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=124877 Growing up on a farm in Tyrol, surrounded by repetitions of natural processes to which rituals and traditions attune, Weinberger developed an understanding of the nature–culture relationship observed from the periphery.]]> https://landezine.com/lois-weinberger-precise-carelessness/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/feminism-in-the-wild-how-human-biases-shape-our-understanding-of-animal-behaviour/ https://landezine.com/feminism-in-the-wild-how-human-biases-shape-our-understanding-of-animal-behaviour/#respond Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:00:03 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=124254 Scientific research into animal behaviour still rests on many deeply ingrained assumptions about what is deemed to be “natural” human behaviour. For example, men—males—are assumed by nature to be more dominant and aggressive than women—females. And if men are violent, then the violent behaviour of other male animals in the wild can supposedly be explained […]]]> https://landezine.com/feminism-in-the-wild-how-human-biases-shape-our-understanding-of-animal-behaviour/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/gunther-vogt-receives-2025-ifla-sir-geoffrey-jellicoe-award/ https://landezine.com/gunther-vogt-receives-2025-ifla-sir-geoffrey-jellicoe-award/#respond Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:45:28 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=124174 The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) has announced Günther Vogt, who received LILA 2025 Honour Award, as the recipient of the 2025 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award, the highest honour bestowed by the Federation. The award recognises a landscape architect whose lifetime achievements have had a profound and enduring impact on the discipline worldwide. The […]]]> https://landezine.com/gunther-vogt-receives-2025-ifla-sir-geoffrey-jellicoe-award/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/designing-skin-to-skin/ https://landezine.com/designing-skin-to-skin/#respond Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:03:11 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122397 Skin-to-Skin Architecture is about rethinking how we design cities and buildings, not just as objects we use, but as spaces that touch us back. Inspired by the power of skin-to-skin contact in neonatal care, where a caregiver’s touch stabilizes, calms, and connects, we ask: what if our built environment could do the same? In Skin-to-Skin, […]]]> https://landezine.com/designing-skin-to-skin/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/1012-september-ifla-world-congress-2025-guiding-landscapes/ https://landezine.com/1012-september-ifla-world-congress-2025-guiding-landscapes/#respond Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:44:42 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121083 The IFLA World Congress is coming to Nantes, France, from 10–12 September 2025, bringing together leading voices in landscape architecture. With more than a thousand participants expected (professionals, researchers, businesses, etc.), this event will be a unique moment of sharing and networking.  Recognized as the largest annual event for the profession, this Congress will bring […]]]> https://landezine.com/1012-september-ifla-world-congress-2025-guiding-landscapes/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/6-10-september-eclas-conference-2025-agricultural-landscapes/ https://landezine.com/6-10-september-eclas-conference-2025-agricultural-landscapes/#respond Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:07:08 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=123869 The 2025 ECLAS Conference, themed “agriCULTURAL Landscapes,” is set to convene from 6 to 10 September 2025 at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. This edition invites scholars and practitioners to reflect on the ecological, cultural, social, and economic dimensions of landscapes shaped by agriculture. Programme Includes, among others, a Keynote Lecture by Univ.-Prof. […]]]> https://landezine.com/6-10-september-eclas-conference-2025-agricultural-landscapes/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/1617-october-new-urban-landscapes-36th-ifla-europe-conference/ https://landezine.com/1617-october-new-urban-landscapes-36th-ifla-europe-conference/#respond Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:30:42 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=123406 The Belgian Association of Landscape Architects and IFLA Europe organise an essential conference that will gather 300+ landscape architects, urban thinkers and policymakers to explore how cities can be regenerated into sustainable, inclusive and beautiful places, fully aligned with New European Bauhaus values. The conference will be held in English and is taking place in Brussels at CIVA – Centre for landscape architecture, […]]]> https://landezine.com/1617-october-new-urban-landscapes-36th-ifla-europe-conference/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/2025-rosa-barba-prize-finalists/ https://landezine.com/2025-rosa-barba-prize-finalists/#respond Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:51:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122652 Biennal Internacional De Paisatge Barcelona introduces 8 finalists for the Rosa Barba Prize 2025. The winner will be announced at the symposium, taking place in Barcelona, 17-21 November 2025, accompanied by a rich program.   Among the Finalists, there are the following projects: – Urban Balcony by Kongjian Yu – Turenscape, – Waterscape Park by […]]]> https://landezine.com/2025-rosa-barba-prize-finalists/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/hidden-in-olmsteds-shadow-the-brilliant-designer-history-forgot/ https://landezine.com/hidden-in-olmsteds-shadow-the-brilliant-designer-history-forgot/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:10:52 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122427 It was 2 AM, and I was still scrolling through thousands of digitized drawings in the Olmsted archive on Flickr. Six hours in, my avocado toast sat half-eaten, but I couldn’t pull myself away. These hand-drawn plans were so much more alive than the sterile digital renderings that I have gotten so used to seeing […]]]> https://landezine.com/hidden-in-olmsteds-shadow-the-brilliant-designer-history-forgot/feed/ 5 https://landezine.com/expanding-landscape-set-and-surplus/ https://landezine.com/expanding-landscape-set-and-surplus/#respond Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:10:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122166 I have spent the last two weeks conducting field research at a large music festival located in the interior of Portugal. Every day, I would wake up in my tiny tent and walk into a stunning landscape. Walking around the grounds of the festival every morning was my favorite activity, indulging in the lake around […]]]> https://landezine.com/expanding-landscape-set-and-surplus/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/healing-landscapes-designing-with-empathy-in-the-shadows-of-trauma/ https://landezine.com/healing-landscapes-designing-with-empathy-in-the-shadows-of-trauma/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:38:47 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121980 Mental health disorders such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and paranoid schizophrenia affect masses of people worldwide. These conditions not only challenge individuals but also deeply affect their relatives and communities. While clinical treatments remain essential, there is increasing recognition of the therapeutic role landscapes can play in supporting mental health recovery. Historically, nature […]]]> https://landezine.com/healing-landscapes-designing-with-empathy-in-the-shadows-of-trauma/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/25-september-alcatraz-as-demonstration-grounds/ https://landezine.com/25-september-alcatraz-as-demonstration-grounds/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:27:02 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122142 Organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), the online event commemorates the occupation of the Alcatraz Island by the Indigenous people. On March 9, 1964, five Lakota Sioux briefly occupied Alcatraz Island, declaring it “Indian Land.” A longer and more influential occupation followed from November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971, when the group “Indians […]]]> https://landezine.com/25-september-alcatraz-as-demonstration-grounds/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/29-august-landscape-scholarship-by-fbsr/ https://landezine.com/29-august-landscape-scholarship-by-fbsr/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:07:39 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122138 Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche (FBSR) invites you to apply for yearly landscape study scholarships. The next year’s edition will grant two six-month scholarships for research into the landscape and garden culture, around the thematic areas of Landscape project, Theories and policies for landscape and Nature and gardens. Young graduates are welcome to apply by Friday, […]]]> https://landezine.com/29-august-landscape-scholarship-by-fbsr/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/finding-mary-miss/ https://landezine.com/finding-mary-miss/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:01:49 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121779 On a mild evening last April, Room 304 in Pratt Institute’s architecture school, Higgins Hall—an oddly grandiose double-height classroom space with a view of the Manhattan skyline—is packed. The Landscape Seminar Series—launched in 2022 in conjunction with Pratt’s Master of Landscape Architecture program—has invited the iconic land artist and activist Mary Miss to speak as […]]]> https://landezine.com/finding-mary-miss/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/7-november-uia-international-student-competition/ https://landezine.com/7-november-uia-international-student-competition/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:20:40 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122099 The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 in Barcelona has launched an international student competition under the theme “Becoming. Architectures for a Planet in Transition.” The call invites students in architecture, landscape, and urban disciplines to propose time-based spatial interventions addressing political, social, and environmental transformation. Participants will submit three richly illustrated drawings reflecting found […]]]> https://landezine.com/7-november-uia-international-student-competition/feed/ 0 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/asla-2025-awards-celebrating-expanding-ethos/ https://landezine.com/asla-2025-awards-celebrating-expanding-ethos/#respond Sun, 13 Jul 2025 19:37:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122016 The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced its 2025 Honours, recognising leading figures who are shaping the profession’s future across practice, academia, community engagement, and ecological stewardship. This year’s awards reflect a broadened disciplinary scope and a more urgent public mandate.  Below is only a selection of the received honours; we congratulate all […]]]> https://landezine.com/asla-2025-awards-celebrating-expanding-ethos/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/territories-of-extraction-mapping-palimpsests-of-appropriation/ https://landezine.com/territories-of-extraction-mapping-palimpsests-of-appropriation/#respond Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:41:44 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121755 How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? 1. Introduction In his book Norrland, journalist Po Tidholm opens with a poem that captures a long-standing reality: northern Sweden has long been a site of resource extraction— iron […]]]> https://landezine.com/territories-of-extraction-mapping-palimpsests-of-appropriation/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/generation-alpha-trapped-between-two-worlds-can-landscape-come-to-the-rescue/ https://landezine.com/generation-alpha-trapped-between-two-worlds-can-landscape-come-to-the-rescue/#respond Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:28:29 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121382 As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of what was formerly called ‘the European Landscape Convention’ spare a thought for upcoming generations: Generation Z and especially Generation Alpha are having a difficult time. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place, between the perils of the real world and the dangers of life in […]]]> https://landezine.com/generation-alpha-trapped-between-two-worlds-can-landscape-come-to-the-rescue/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/15-september-aiph-world-green-city-awards-2026/ https://landezine.com/15-september-aiph-world-green-city-awards-2026/#respond Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:20:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121667 Call for entries! The AIPH World Green City Awards return! For the third edition, they invite cities worldwide to participate in this prestigious competition. Share your city’s innovative approaches to urban greening and contribute to the global conversation on sustainable urban development. Building on the success of previous editions, the 2026 awards will celebrate inspiring […]]]> https://landezine.com/15-september-aiph-world-green-city-awards-2026/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lila-2025-recognitions-announced/ https://landezine.com/lila-2025-recognitions-announced/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:08:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121595 The jury (Maria Goula, Sotiria Kornaropoulou, François Vadepied, Martin Rein-Cano and Zaš Brezar) selected the projects for the 10th edition of LILA. The editors of Landezine selected the 2025 Honour Award, Office Award and Portfolio Award for Students and Young Professionals.]]> https://landezine.com/lila-2025-recognitions-announced/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/8-september-ifla-europe-2025-youth-competition-for-landscape-architecture-students-and-young-professionals/ https://landezine.com/8-september-ifla-europe-2025-youth-competition-for-landscape-architecture-students-and-young-professionals/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121301 IFLA Europe is proud to launch its 2025 Youth competition for Landscape Architecture students and young professionals entitled ‘NEW URBAN LANDSCAPES – Regenerating Cities – Revealing new urban landscapes’ IFLA Europe Landscape Architecture Students and Young Professionals Competition offers a unique opportunity for emerging landscape architects to gain visibility and recognition for their work at […]]]> https://landezine.com/8-september-ifla-europe-2025-youth-competition-for-landscape-architecture-students-and-young-professionals/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/july-31-2025-asla-emerging-professionals-design-competition-beyond-boundaries/ https://landezine.com/july-31-2025-asla-emerging-professionals-design-competition-beyond-boundaries/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:36:09 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121246 Calling all emerging professionals in landscape architecture! Showcase your creativity, innovation, and design excellence in the ASLA Emerging Professionals Design Competition. This exciting opportunity invites early-career landscape architecture professionals and students to tackle real-world challenges, gain national recognition, and elevate your portfolio. Submit your boldest ideas and be part of shaping the future of the […]]]> https://landezine.com/july-31-2025-asla-emerging-professionals-design-competition-beyond-boundaries/feed/ 0 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/7-may-13-july-bap2025-biennale-darchitecture-et-de-paysage-3rd-edition/ https://landezine.com/7-may-13-july-bap2025-biennale-darchitecture-et-de-paysage-3rd-edition/#respond Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:11:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120786 From May 7 to July 13, 2025 Versailles hosts the Architecture and Landscape Biennale ‘Bap!’ initiated by the Ile-de-France region; the theme of this 3rd edition: ‘La ville vivante’, the living city. The preservation of life, in all its forms and adaptations, lies at the heart of our concerns in the face of climate disruption […]]]> https://landezine.com/7-may-13-july-bap2025-biennale-darchitecture-et-de-paysage-3rd-edition/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/31-july-6-august-elasa-2025-slovakia-x-czech-republic-beyond-borders/ https://landezine.com/31-july-6-august-elasa-2025-slovakia-x-czech-republic-beyond-borders/#respond Mon, 26 May 2025 09:59:06 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120637 The meeting’s theme Beyond Borders invites you to reflect on the visible and invisible boundaries that shape our landscapes, societies, and our profession. The European Landscape Architecture Student Association (ELASA) team of “Czechoslovakian” students has prepared an engaging program that will guide you through the landscape architecture of these two neighboring countries, exploring how different types […]]]> https://landezine.com/31-july-6-august-elasa-2025-slovakia-x-czech-republic-beyond-borders/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landezine-awarded-plecnik-medal-for-enrichment-of-spatial-culture/ https://landezine.com/landezine-awarded-plecnik-medal-for-enrichment-of-spatial-culture/#respond Tue, 20 May 2025 13:37:53 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120449 The Plečnik Awards are among the highest national recognitions for works realised in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism in Slovenia. Each year, the Jože Plečnik Fund acknowledges outstanding contributions in the categories of Public Space, Large Scale Realisations, Small Scale Realisations, Professional Publications, and Enrichment of Spatial Culture — the latter being the category in […]]]> https://landezine.com/landezine-awarded-plecnik-medal-for-enrichment-of-spatial-culture/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/on-designing-just-urban-waterfronts/ https://landezine.com/on-designing-just-urban-waterfronts/#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 09:16:35 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119899 Despite ambitious sustainability frameworks, current modes of urban waterfront redevelopment tend to reinforce existing or create new socio-spatial divides in the city. Although the projects regard urban water as a public good, it is oftentimes the most privileged groups that get to enjoy the improved environmental amenities and reap their benefits, at the expense of […]]]> https://landezine.com/on-designing-just-urban-waterfronts/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/july-4-ifla-apr-la-and-luminary-awards-2025-submission/ https://landezine.com/july-4-ifla-apr-la-and-luminary-awards-2025-submission/#respond Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:06:55 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121661 1. IFLA APR LA AWARDS 2025 The IFLA Asia-Pacific region Landscape Architecture Awards, also known as the IFLA APR LA Awards provide an international platform to showcase and promote the achievements and work of landscape architects in the Asia-Pacific region. These prestigious awards aim to create continuous awareness and recognition of landscape architecture together with […]]]> https://landezine.com/july-4-ifla-apr-la-and-luminary-awards-2025-submission/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/asla-ncc-announces-2025-award-recipients-for-exceptional-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/asla-ncc-announces-2025-award-recipients-for-exceptional-landscape-architecture/#respond Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:52:44 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119835 ASLA Northern California Chapter is pleased to present 2025 Professional and Student Design Award winners. The annual program honors excellence in landscape architecture, recognizing the innovative and impactful work of local landscape architects across nine (9) different categories. This year, the jury has selected one (1) Award of Excellence, nine (9) Honor and fifteen (15) […]]]> https://landezine.com/asla-ncc-announces-2025-award-recipients-for-exceptional-landscape-architecture/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/june-29-europan-competition-e18-re-sourcing/ https://landezine.com/june-29-europan-competition-e18-re-sourcing/#respond Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:07:06 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117949 The new Europan competition E18 on the topic of „Re-Sourcing” has started on March, 3rd 2025. Europan is a competition of projects at different scales – from territory to proximity – aimed at young European professionals in architectural, urban and landscape design under the age of 40. Each biennial session, around fifty cities in Europe […]]]> https://landezine.com/june-29-europan-competition-e18-re-sourcing/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/26-june-wgin-webinar-the-role-of-nature-based-solutions-in-post-conflict-reconstruction/ https://landezine.com/26-june-wgin-webinar-the-role-of-nature-based-solutions-in-post-conflict-reconstruction/#respond Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:55:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121431 The World Green Infrastructure Network (WGIN) and The Ukrainian Association of Green Infrastructure (UAGI) welcome interested experts and stakeholders to their webinar series for discussion, exchange of ideas and knowledge and developing initiatives for optimizing the integration of green infrastructure and nature based solutions in post conflict reconstruction. Two powerful talks by Dr. Kathleen Wolf […]]]> https://landezine.com/26-june-wgin-webinar-the-role-of-nature-based-solutions-in-post-conflict-reconstruction/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/june-9-open-call-prague-castles-landcape-park-looking-to-the-future-application-deadline/ https://landezine.com/june-9-open-call-prague-castles-landcape-park-looking-to-the-future-application-deadline/#respond Mon, 21 Apr 2025 06:52:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120467 An exceptional design competition has been announced for the renewal of Chotkovy sady, a historic park forming part of the iconic Prague Castle and the city’s skyline. With views of the Castle, the oldest parts of Prague and the Queen Anne’s Summer Palace as a centerpiece, the site offers a rare chance to reimagine a […]]]> https://landezine.com/june-9-open-call-prague-castles-landcape-park-looking-to-the-future-application-deadline/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/june-2-raumscape-open-call-for-competition-in-prague/ https://landezine.com/june-2-raumscape-open-call-for-competition-in-prague/#respond Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:10:11 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120398 CCEA MOBA is launching the RaumScape, an urban design competition dedicated to redefining public space in the heart of Prague’s city center. RaumScape—A Unique Piazzetta in Old Town, Prague RaumScape aims to blend public space with new programs, shaping a vibrant urban landscape. This urban design competition seeks solutions that reimagine public space and architecture […]]]> https://landezine.com/june-2-raumscape-open-call-for-competition-in-prague/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/june-10-la-journal-call-for-abstracts/ https://landezine.com/june-10-la-journal-call-for-abstracts/#respond Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:36:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119502 Critiquing the present, speculating about the future, and engaging in creative thinking to inspire social or environmental change sounds a lot like design. What makes utopian thinking any different? The concept of utopia has been revisited time and again in literature, philosophy, architecture, and urban planning. Thomas More’s 1516 book Utopia—literally, “no place”—describes an imaginary […]]]> https://landezine.com/june-10-la-journal-call-for-abstracts/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/23-27-june-symposium-designing-landscapes-in-the-anthropocene/ https://landezine.com/23-27-june-symposium-designing-landscapes-in-the-anthropocene/#respond Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:24:09 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121199 TU Berlin presents its new Chair ‘Entwerfen von Landschaften im Anthropozän/ Designing Landscapes in the Anthropocene’, or ÉLAN for short, headed by Prof. Dr. Lisa Diedrich since April 2025. The name says it all: Rather than seeing the Anthropocene as the antechamber to apocalypse, for the detrimental changes wrought by human activities on all things […]]]> https://landezine.com/23-27-june-symposium-designing-landscapes-in-the-anthropocene/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/may-23-uia-world-congress-of-architects-2026-bcn-call-for-participants/ https://landezine.com/may-23-uia-world-congress-of-architects-2026-bcn-call-for-participants/#respond Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:22:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119498 The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona (UIA2026BCN) announces the Call for Participants, an international and open invitation for professionals from around the world to take part in the largest global architecture event. The theme Becoming. Architectures for a planet in transition will shape the Congress programme as a platform to explore innovative perspectives, […]]]> https://landezine.com/may-23-uia-world-congress-of-architects-2026-bcn-call-for-participants/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/11-june-sustainable-inclusion-in-public-areas-the-future-of-sustainable-play-design/ https://landezine.com/11-june-sustainable-inclusion-in-public-areas-the-future-of-sustainable-play-design/#respond Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:30:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121078 IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects) World is partnering with corporate member Lappset Group for a powerful session on Sustainable Inclusion in Public Areas & The Future of Sustainable Play Design. Date and time: 11 June, 2 pm (CET)Register here This webinar will explore how public spaces can be thoughtfully designed to promote both environmental […]]]> https://landezine.com/11-june-sustainable-inclusion-in-public-areas-the-future-of-sustainable-play-design/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/ooo-the-inner-surplus-of-meaning/ https://landezine.com/ooo-the-inner-surplus-of-meaning/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:40:26 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118272 As part of the broader philosophical movement of speculative realism, OOO (Object-Oriented Ontology) directly challenges the long-established belief that reality is always determined solely through human perception. Instead, the father of OOO, philosopher Graham Harman, argues that all objects—human and non-human, natural and artificial—exist independently of our subjective conceptualizations. To understand the radical nature and […]]]> https://landezine.com/ooo-the-inner-surplus-of-meaning/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/june-30-13th-international-landscape-architecture-school-prize-ribas-piera-2025/ https://landezine.com/june-30-13th-international-landscape-architecture-school-prize-ribas-piera-2025/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:47:46 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117875 Within the framework of the Barcelona International Landscape Biennial, the International Landscape Architecture School Prize is organized by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech (UPC) and the Architects Association of Catalonia (COAC) with the support of the Banc de Sabadell Foundation. All university schools of architects, urban planners and landscape designers who develop specific […]]]> https://landezine.com/june-30-13th-international-landscape-architecture-school-prize-ribas-piera-2025/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/16-june-rosa-barba-prize-2025-deadline-extended/ https://landezine.com/16-june-rosa-barba-prize-2025-deadline-extended/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:53:40 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120814 Registration for the 13th edition of the Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Prize is extended to June 16, 2025! The finalists and jury members will be the main speakers at the Biennale International Landscape Symposium, which will take place from November 19 to 21, 2025, at the Petit Palau of the Palau de la Música […]]]> https://landezine.com/16-june-rosa-barba-prize-2025-deadline-extended/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/streetlife-design-competition-winners-announced/ https://landezine.com/streetlife-design-competition-winners-announced/#respond Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:20:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118928 The finalists, special mentions, and prize winners of the Streetlife Design Competition, organized by Streetlife and Landezine, have been announced! Congratulations to all participants for their effort and for showcasing their work! Students and young professionals from the field of landscape architecture and other professions related to the design and development of open public space […]]]> https://landezine.com/streetlife-design-competition-winners-announced/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/denis-delbaere-infrascapes-as-new-landscapes-critique-as-new-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/denis-delbaere-infrascapes-as-new-landscapes-critique-as-new-landscape-architecture/#respond Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:31:15 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118773 When I walk in the city center, in parks, I feel like I’m in a kind of theater. The fact that these environments have been deliberately designed for me to find them beautiful is, to me, a problem. But when you walk along an infrastructure, you know you’re in reality. You’re seeing the world as it truly is, as it appears to you. I believe landscape architects shouldn’t focus on cultural aesthetics. Instead, they should work with corporeal aesthetics—something much harder to grasp. Our job is not to create new beauty. Our job is to reveal the beauty that already exists. That’s a completely different approach.]]> https://landezine.com/denis-delbaere-infrascapes-as-new-landscapes-critique-as-new-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/march-15-soak-it-up-combating-climate-change-with-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/march-15-soak-it-up-combating-climate-change-with-landscape-architecture/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:34:31 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117091 Register for Soak it Up today. Watch the pre-recorded presentations and tune in on Wednesday, May 7 at 8PM ET for a live 90-minute webinar with all of the panelists.  The “sponge cities” concept for addressing climate change accelerated urban flooding championed by the Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu, the most recent winner of the Cornelia […]]]> https://landezine.com/march-15-soak-it-up-combating-climate-change-with-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/may-23-counter-narratives-for-tempelhofer-feld-berlin-awcs-issue-%e2%84%96-38-call-for-contributions/ https://landezine.com/may-23-counter-narratives-for-tempelhofer-feld-berlin-awcs-issue-%e2%84%96-38-call-for-contributions/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:08:24 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119891 By joining forces with Arts of the Working Class (AWC), Architects4THF responds to the Ideenwettbewerb Tempelhofer Feld 2024-2025, by presenting a call for contributions to interrogate the ethical role of planners in shaping the future of cities, and to question their responsibilities within the building industry. The selected contributions will shape the flipside of AWC’s […]]]> https://landezine.com/may-23-counter-narratives-for-tempelhofer-feld-berlin-awcs-issue-%e2%84%96-38-call-for-contributions/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/april-24-book-release-thinking-through-soil/ https://landezine.com/april-24-book-release-thinking-through-soil/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:32:10 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119731 Harvard Design Press is pleased to announce the release of Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley, by Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen. The event will take place on April 24 and is free and open to the public. Registration and login are not required to view the livestream. Event Description To […]]]> https://landezine.com/april-24-book-release-thinking-through-soil/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/may-25-landscape-institute-awards-2025-submission/ https://landezine.com/may-25-landscape-institute-awards-2025-submission/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:39:32 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118544 The Landscape Institute (LI) is delighted to announce the launch of the Landscape Institute Awards 2025, with submissions open until Sunday 25 May 2025 for members and non-members across the natural and built environment. This is your opportunity to enter your project to be recognised for your outstanding achievements in landscape or get involved by […]]]> https://landezine.com/may-25-landscape-institute-awards-2025-submission/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/april-25-asla-2025-student-award-call-for-entries/ https://landezine.com/april-25-asla-2025-student-award-call-for-entries/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:22:24 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119459 Students! Don’t miss this great opportunity to submit for the ASLA Student Awards and have your work recognized nationally. Submissions are due by May 9th with the entry fee due by April 25th. Award recipients receive featured coverage in Landscape Architecture Magazine, the magazine of ASLA, and in many other design and construction industry and […]]]> https://landezine.com/april-25-asla-2025-student-award-call-for-entries/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/may-1-pla-x-gx-outdoors-webinar-the-future-of-outdoor-parks-and-spaces-in-australia/ https://landezine.com/may-1-pla-x-gx-outdoors-webinar-the-future-of-outdoor-parks-and-spaces-in-australia/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:16:47 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119292 The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, and Australia is no exception. With population growth, diversity shifts, and evolving societal needs, the role of public spaces is becoming more crucial than ever before. GX Outdoors in conjunction with Place Score undertook comprehensive research involving a mix of direct engagement with industry professionals and decision-makers […]]]> https://landezine.com/may-1-pla-x-gx-outdoors-webinar-the-future-of-outdoor-parks-and-spaces-in-australia/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/may-15-ifla-apr-talk-share-pushing-boundaries-in-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/may-15-ifla-apr-talk-share-pushing-boundaries-in-landscape-architecture/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:55:06 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119951 Join IFLA APR Talk & Share virtually on 15 May, 6PM (GMT+8) as KILA (Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture) hosts a dynamic conversation on pushing boundaries in the landscape architecture industry. This session will highlight how artificial intelligence is transforming landscape planning and design, and introduce innovative green systems that bring nature closer to urban […]]]> https://landezine.com/may-15-ifla-apr-talk-share-pushing-boundaries-in-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/may-8-ili-cpd-webinar-placemaking-what-it-is-and-what-it-isnt-by-thorsten-peters/ https://landezine.com/may-8-ili-cpd-webinar-placemaking-what-it-is-and-what-it-isnt-by-thorsten-peters/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:42:18 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119645 This high level presentation provides an overview of Placemaking applied to urban regeneration projects. Placemaking is the holistic approach of multi-disciplinary collaboration, with and by the community and stakeholders, along an iterative process.Placemaking is more than public consultation as it enables the public to take control and ownership of an open-ended outcome.Placemaking is more than […]]]> https://landezine.com/may-8-ili-cpd-webinar-placemaking-what-it-is-and-what-it-isnt-by-thorsten-peters/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/april-30-the-11th-landscape-architecture-exhibition-2025-application-deadline/ https://landezine.com/april-30-the-11th-landscape-architecture-exhibition-2025-application-deadline/#respond Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:33:04 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119402 The Serbian Association of Landscape Architects (UPAS / SALA) is pleased to announce the 11th International Landscape Architecture Exhibition, which will be held 12 – 27 June 2025 in the Gallery of Science and Technology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade (Serbia). Professionals and students in the field of landscape architecture and related disciplines […]]]> https://landezine.com/april-30-the-11th-landscape-architecture-exhibition-2025-application-deadline/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/may-30-open-for-registration-rosa-barba-international-landscape-prize-2025/ https://landezine.com/may-30-open-for-registration-rosa-barba-international-landscape-prize-2025/#respond Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:15:15 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118533 The Barcelona International Landscape Biennale opens registration for the 13th edition of the Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Prize, a biennial call that highlights the best landscape interventions on the international stage. Registration will be open until May 30, 2025. In June 2025, the finalists’ projects will be announced and have a prominent role during […]]]> https://landezine.com/may-30-open-for-registration-rosa-barba-international-landscape-prize-2025/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-realistic-idea-to-be-a-dreamer/ https://landezine.com/the-realistic-idea-to-be-a-dreamer/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:42:53 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118498 Reports of global warming, biodiversity loss, rising anti-democratic states, heatwaves, wars, and sea-level rise are enough to make anyone discouraged. In these times, hope is crucial—it’s the difference between envisioning a positive future and resigning to the present. Hope drives action, while hopelessness paralyzes. It rejects the status quo and aspires for change, making it vital for progress. Hope can grow and strengthen, but it can also fade.]]> https://landezine.com/the-realistic-idea-to-be-a-dreamer/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/low-res-landscape/ https://landezine.com/low-res-landscape/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:26:30 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118358 Exploring the interplay between low-res design and the transience of landscapes, this essay foregrounds the notion of resolution, enquiring about a dynamic interaction with landscapes in flux.]]> https://landezine.com/low-res-landscape/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/clearing-the-woods-dan-handel-on-forest-metaphors/ https://landezine.com/clearing-the-woods-dan-handel-on-forest-metaphors/#respond Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:45:27 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118099 The book reads like a crime novel for landscape architects. It contains much of the stuff we don’t dare to look into, true – mostly because forests fall under the domain of forestry. Designed Forests: A Cultural History uncovers human entanglements with forests as a design metaphor through a series of gripping stories Dan Handel researched in serious depth, not leaving room for much romance. Taking us on a global journey through projects that involve forests as a point of departure, Handel catches us in our preconceived ways of thinking, traversing the undergirding ideas, cutting to the stem of those lines of thought. The book is not an answer to what a forest is, yet we might get an idea of how forest metaphor gets instrumentalized in discourse in spatial design practices and what this metaphor lacks.]]> https://landezine.com/clearing-the-woods-dan-handel-on-forest-metaphors/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/base-our-work-lies-on-freedom-of-spirit/ https://landezine.com/base-our-work-lies-on-freedom-of-spirit/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:02:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117986 BASE is a France-based studio known for its out-of-the-box thinking and unexpected design choices, often introducing challenges that can be overcome through play. Encountering an obstacle in a public space—one that invites engagement and risk-taking—creates a tension that can lead to moments of joyful liberation. A key aspect of BASE’s approach is putting trust in […]]]> https://landezine.com/base-our-work-lies-on-freedom-of-spirit/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/may-23-open-landscape-academy-call-for-contributions-democratic-landscape-transformation-in-action-symposium/ https://landezine.com/may-23-open-landscape-academy-call-for-contributions-democratic-landscape-transformation-in-action-symposium/#respond Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:25:52 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118187 The Open Landscape Academy (OLA) invites researchers, practitioners, and activists to submit proposals for an online symposium exploring the intersections of landscape democracy, co-creation, and democratic landscape transformation. This symposium aims to foster a dynamic exchange of ideas and practices that advance more inclusive, participatory, and equitable landscapes. We welcome contributions in the form of […]]]> https://landezine.com/may-23-open-landscape-academy-call-for-contributions-democratic-landscape-transformation-in-action-symposium/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/soak-it-up-with-charles-a-birnbaum/ https://landezine.com/soak-it-up-with-charles-a-birnbaum/#respond Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:49:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118045 Soak It Up: Combating Climate Change with Landscape Architecture is a global summit organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy non-profit, addressing biodiversity loss, climate change, and social inequities. TCLF’s information-rich website offers in-depth research, critical analysis of threatened landscapes, and a comprehensive database of shared cultural landscape heritage […]]]> https://landezine.com/soak-it-up-with-charles-a-birnbaum/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/disaster-preventive-parks-japans-coastal-forests/ https://landezine.com/disaster-preventive-parks-japans-coastal-forests/#respond Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:08:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117736 Mnemosyne walks on a Forest Wall What if rural areas took center stage in the movement for resilient, secure communities—getting the same attention as urban environments? What if seawalls and groynes weren’t just lifeless barriers but thriving ecosystems, forests, walking routes for storytelling, art trails and canvases for culture and nature? The growing impact of […]]]> https://landezine.com/disaster-preventive-parks-japans-coastal-forests/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/modalities-modulations-models-cobe/ https://landezine.com/modalities-modulations-models-cobe/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:38:18 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117894 In this next episode of our series on models as a key tool for communication and exploration, we present the Danish office Cobe, renowned for its terrain and object modulations. The undulating landscapes and folded facades create a dynamic interplay of convex and concave forms, shaping both the skyline and the experience of space with […]]]> https://landezine.com/modalities-modulations-models-cobe/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/from-grey-infrastructure-to-green-socialstructure/ https://landezine.com/from-grey-infrastructure-to-green-socialstructure/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:40:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117805 Converting grey infrastructure into green socialstructure leads to more inclusive, adaptable, and environmentally resilient public spaces that serve both ecological and social functions. The benefits extend beyond aesthetics – these transformations drive economic growth, improve public health, and mitigate the effects of climate change. So, the real question is not whether cities can do this. The question is: Why aren’t they?]]> https://landezine.com/from-grey-infrastructure-to-green-socialstructure/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/april-14-kerb-33-appetite-expressions-of-interest/ https://landezine.com/april-14-kerb-33-appetite-expressions-of-interest/#respond Sun, 02 Mar 2025 06:16:49 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118952 Initiated in 1993, Kerb is one of the longest-running publications of its kind in the world, serving as a platform for discourse around emerging landscape ideas and practices. Each issue’s theme reflects the concerns and interests of the editorial team, inviting pithy and incisive contributions from established and emerging voices. By curating perspectives from the […]]]> https://landezine.com/april-14-kerb-33-appetite-expressions-of-interest/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/streetlife-design-competition-finalists-announced/ https://landezine.com/streetlife-design-competition-finalists-announced/#respond Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:55:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117784 The Jury of the Streetlife Design Competition, organized by Landezine in partnership with Streetlife, the Dutch urban furnicher designers, selected ten finalists. The winners will be announced at the award ceremony on March 28, which will take place in Leiden, Netherlands, where the finalists will present their work. The works of students and young professionals […]]]> https://landezine.com/streetlife-design-competition-finalists-announced/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/march-21-corpus-bodies-of-data-exhibition-by-data-through-design/ https://landezine.com/march-21-corpus-bodies-of-data-exhibition-by-data-through-design/#respond Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:20:47 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118192 Data Through Design (DxD) is pleased to announce the opening of CORPUS: BODIES OF DATA A public exhibition of ten data-driven, interdisciplinary art works. The opening reception will be Friday, March 21 starting at 6:30 pm with (free) tickets available through event registration. The exhibition will be presented in partnership with BRIC in Brooklyn, NY […]]]> https://landezine.com/march-21-corpus-bodies-of-data-exhibition-by-data-through-design/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/march-27-ili-cpd-webinar-turning-the-grey-to-green-plant-driven-design-in-sheffield-by-sally-ohalloran/ https://landezine.com/march-27-ili-cpd-webinar-turning-the-grey-to-green-plant-driven-design-in-sheffield-by-sally-ohalloran/#respond Sat, 01 Mar 2025 08:51:28 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118425 The Grey to Green in Sheffield, is the UK’s largest retro-fit ‘sustainable drainage system’ project. It is an award winning project for multiple reasons but this talk will look at it in terms of planting design. With plant-driven design led by landscape architect Zac Tudor and Prof. Nigel Dunnett it has led the way to […]]]> https://landezine.com/march-27-ili-cpd-webinar-turning-the-grey-to-green-plant-driven-design-in-sheffield-by-sally-ohalloran/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/21-march-european-award-ahi/ https://landezine.com/21-march-european-award-ahi/#respond Sat, 01 Mar 2025 08:27:06 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118419 The European Award AHI is a biennial event. The main goal of this event is to distinguish quality interventions in all the aspects of built heritage and contribute to their dissemination. The contest is aimed at consolidating itself as a catalyst and observatory of new challenges added to the conservation and intervention in built heritage […]]]> https://landezine.com/21-march-european-award-ahi/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/introducing-the-new-landscape-association-cultivating-a-global-vision-for-the-future-of-our-spaces/ https://landezine.com/introducing-the-new-landscape-association-cultivating-a-global-vision-for-the-future-of-our-spaces/#respond Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:56:24 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117712 A new chapter in landscape architecture has begun with the founding of The Landscape Association in Tbilisi, Georgia. This exciting initiative unites landscape architects, urban planners, and environmental experts from around the world to create sustainable, accessible, and inspiring outdoor spaces. The association’s first meeting took place on February 15th at the Radisson Hotel in […]]]> https://landezine.com/introducing-the-new-landscape-association-cultivating-a-global-vision-for-the-future-of-our-spaces/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/building-trust-an-interview-with-andrew-grant/ https://landezine.com/building-trust-an-interview-with-andrew-grant/#respond Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:49:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117565 Andrew Grant founded his practice, Grant Associates in 1997, which grew into an international design studio with offices in Bath and Singapore. His most significant work, Gardens by the Bay, won the Building Project of the Year Award at the 2012 World Architecture Festival and continues to be one of the most visited places designed […]]]> https://landezine.com/building-trust-an-interview-with-andrew-grant/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/a-guidance-paper-healthier-cities-and-communities-through-public-spaces/ https://landezine.com/a-guidance-paper-healthier-cities-and-communities-through-public-spaces/#respond Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:56:31 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117659 Green and open public spaces are crucial in enhancing urban areas’ and communities’ health and wellbeing. Public spaces can catalyse physical activity, mental wellness, social interactions, and community engagement when well-planned and maintained. Additionally, they contribute to reducing air pollution and overall improvement in urban quality of life, yielding economic advantages and promoting ecological sustainability. […]]]> https://landezine.com/a-guidance-paper-healthier-cities-and-communities-through-public-spaces/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/responding-to-the-land-the-landscape-studio/ https://landezine.com/responding-to-the-land-the-landscape-studio/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:16:22 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117071 The interview with Chloe and Michael Humphreys focuses on the work of The Landscape Studio. They began working in Nairobi in 2014 and in the years, their practice produced numerous private and public projects across Africa, that in essence and with minimal material means, embody the beauty of the locality. Embracing constraints is their design […]]]> https://landezine.com/responding-to-the-land-the-landscape-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/8-10-april-4th-international-congress-of-urban-landscape/ https://landezine.com/8-10-april-4th-international-congress-of-urban-landscape/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:27:31 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118409 ICOUL, the International Congress on Urban Landscape, is an open and participatory international forum dedicated to the dissemination of strategies and instruments for managing the uses of the urban landscape for good local governance. Without forgetting the traditional urban and heritage values that characterise the urban landscape, ICOUL also deals with cross-cutting aspects that are […]]]> https://landezine.com/8-10-april-4th-international-congress-of-urban-landscape/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/may-30-open-call-for-the-13th-rosa-barba-international-landscape-prize/ https://landezine.com/may-30-open-call-for-the-13th-rosa-barba-international-landscape-prize/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:48:41 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117097 The Barcelona International Landscape Biennale announces the 13th edition of the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize, a prestigious prize in the field of landscape architecture. With the support of the Bank of Sabadell Foundation, the prize honours outstanding and innovative landscape projects worldwide. A selection of 7 to 11 finalists will be invited as guest […]]]> https://landezine.com/may-30-open-call-for-the-13th-rosa-barba-international-landscape-prize/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/march-15-jola-calls-for-special-issue-decolonization/ https://landezine.com/march-15-jola-calls-for-special-issue-decolonization/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:59:46 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117073 JoLA announces a new call for papers for a special issue that critically focuses and reflects on the concept of ‘decolonization’ in relation to landscape and the history, theory, methodology and practice of landscape architecture from various ontological, historical, political and social perspectives across geographies. The topics may include, but are not limited to:· Concepts […]]]> https://landezine.com/march-15-jola-calls-for-special-issue-decolonization/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/call-for-entries-the-tenth-edition-of-lila-landezine-international-landscape-award/ https://landezine.com/call-for-entries-the-tenth-edition-of-lila-landezine-international-landscape-award/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:04:02 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116928 Landezine is calling landscape architects and architects to submit their built projects to the tenth edition of the LILA – Landezine International Landscape Award. There are more than 50 possible recognitions (shortlists, special mentions, awards). All shortlisted entries will be published on the front page of the LILA website. All entries will be published on […]]]> https://landezine.com/call-for-entries-the-tenth-edition-of-lila-landezine-international-landscape-award/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/forest-typologies/ https://landezine.com/forest-typologies/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:57:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116948 Forests are ecosystems, usually acknowledged as spaces with the least human intervention, however, not many of us have been in touch with a virgin forest and its feralness. For most, forest means recreational or urban woods in the vicinity where we stroll and unwind or a mountain forest where we hike or climb. People growing […]]]> https://landezine.com/forest-typologies/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/la-new-issue-release/ https://landezine.com/la-new-issue-release/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:53:27 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116834 Issue 20 of LA+ journal brings you the results of our fifth international design ideas competition. LA+ EXOTIQUE asked entrants to redesign the forecourt of the Museum of Natural History in Paris. The Museum—founded in 1793—sits within the Jardin des Plantes grounds, which include themed gardens, a zoo, and five themed galleries. In addition to […]]]> https://landezine.com/la-new-issue-release/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/march-6-7-african-landscape-architectures-alternative-futures-for-the-field/ https://landezine.com/march-6-7-african-landscape-architectures-alternative-futures-for-the-field/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:06:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117667 The African Landscape Architectures conference, hosted by Harvard GSD brings together a wide range of landscape practices from across the continent. This two-day hybrid event highlights the transformative potential of decolonizing design to address social injustices and prepare African cities for the impacts of climate change. Speakers will explore innovative strategies through frameworks such as […]]]> https://landezine.com/march-6-7-african-landscape-architectures-alternative-futures-for-the-field/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/april-7-call-for-entries-for-the-13th-european-urban-and-regional-planning-awards-2025/ https://landezine.com/april-7-call-for-entries-for-the-13th-european-urban-and-regional-planning-awards-2025/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:45:41 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116664 ECTP-CEU is organising its 13th European Urban and Regional Planning Awards this November, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of ECTP-CEU. Please note the following deadlines:The award ceremony for the 13th European Urban and Regional Planning Awards will take place at the Autumn General Assembly in Brussels on 7th or 8th November 2025. Tier one […]]]> https://landezine.com/april-7-call-for-entries-for-the-13th-european-urban-and-regional-planning-awards-2025/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/invisible-infrastructures-putting-landscape-architecture-on-the-moon/ https://landezine.com/invisible-infrastructures-putting-landscape-architecture-on-the-moon/#comments Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:36:36 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116567 The landscape architecture profession, young as it seems, is backed up by a long line of planners, practitioners, and academics, connected in chambers, networks and local contexts. However, landscape architecture still sees a problem with the profession’s visibility. This is contrary to Susan and Geoffrey Jelicoe’s prediction in 1975 that: “the world is moving into […]]]> https://landezine.com/invisible-infrastructures-putting-landscape-architecture-on-the-moon/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/25-28-february-nsl-colloquium-beyond-maintenance-responsive-practices-for-changing-landscapes/ https://landezine.com/25-28-february-nsl-colloquium-beyond-maintenance-responsive-practices-for-changing-landscapes/#respond Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:48:54 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116117 The colloquium will investigate the relationship between the design and maintenance of living systems, seeking to cultivate practices, terminology, and theoretical insights into approaches that attempt to maintain otherwise. About The current separation between landscape design and landscape maintenance is no longer tenable. Unpredictable weather patterns and dwindling water supplies intersect with cuts to municipal […]]]> https://landezine.com/25-28-february-nsl-colloquium-beyond-maintenance-responsive-practices-for-changing-landscapes/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/14-march-landscape-design-competition-for-40-ha-development-of-vienna-nordwestbahnhof/ https://landezine.com/14-march-landscape-design-competition-for-40-ha-development-of-vienna-nordwestbahnhof/#respond Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:41:29 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116230 Open, two-stage realization competition for the landscape design of the last large urban development area close to the city center of Vienna for 16,000 residents on the 40-hectare site of an old train station, which was expanded after the Second World War into a modern logistic hub with a container terminal use until 2022. The […]]]> https://landezine.com/14-march-landscape-design-competition-for-40-ha-development-of-vienna-nordwestbahnhof/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/15-march-ifla-2025-call-for-abstracts/ https://landezine.com/15-march-ifla-2025-call-for-abstracts/#respond Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:39:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116128 IFLA World encourages all interested participants to submit their abstracts aligned with the Congress theme: ‘Guiding Landscapes’ “The IFLA WORLD 2025 congress in Nantes will take place in the context of global climate change, where adapting and building resilience in cities and territories requires profound and systemic transformations. The profession of landscape architects plays a […]]]> https://landezine.com/15-march-ifla-2025-call-for-abstracts/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/february-21-ifla-europe-4th-webinar-on-agricultural-landscapes-challenges-and-opportunities-offered-by-the-new-cap-for-our-landscapes/ https://landezine.com/february-21-ifla-europe-4th-webinar-on-agricultural-landscapes-challenges-and-opportunities-offered-by-the-new-cap-for-our-landscapes/#respond Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:07:36 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116820 Landscape Architects are makers and managers of places – both town and country. But also the farmers, who act daily on the quality of the environment and the rural landscape, also based on European and regional policies. The Nature Restoration Law has sparked a heated debate on how to apply its demands within the agricultural […]]]> https://landezine.com/february-21-ifla-europe-4th-webinar-on-agricultural-landscapes-challenges-and-opportunities-offered-by-the-new-cap-for-our-landscapes/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/15-february-eclas-conference-2025-call-for-abstracts/ https://landezine.com/15-february-eclas-conference-2025-call-for-abstracts/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:23:36 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116658 ECLAS is excited to invite you to the 2025 Conference, which will be held from 6 to 10 September in Nitra, Slovakia, hosted by the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. This year’s theme aims to explore the diverse dimensions of landscapes, including their ecological, cultural, social, and economic aspects, with a special focus on […]]]> https://landezine.com/15-february-eclas-conference-2025-call-for-abstracts/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/13-february-conservation-and-multispecies-relations-in-contemporary-european-tourism-environments/ https://landezine.com/13-february-conservation-and-multispecies-relations-in-contemporary-european-tourism-environments/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:54:32 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116561 To celebrate the publication of Conservation and Multispecies Relations in Contemporary European Tourism Environments (Volume 49, Issue 7 Landscape Research) Landscape Research Group is hosting a special online Zoom event on Thursday 13th February at 1pm GMT. This issue builds on recent developments in landscape studies and multispecies research to explore how the human and […]]]> https://landezine.com/13-february-conservation-and-multispecies-relations-in-contemporary-european-tourism-environments/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/taking-root/ https://landezine.com/taking-root/#respond Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:25:04 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116344 The inaugural lecture, given by Joost Emmerik when he assumed his position as Head of Landscape at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2022. The text particularly excels in embedding doubt into the teaching process. It is the doubt about nature, our entanglement with it, and the values and politics that drive the design process. It is about passing knowledge to others and questioning it meanwhile - a much more pertinent and productive teaching paradigm for times of uncertainties and change.]]> https://landezine.com/taking-root/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/14-21-february-underground-international-landscape-study-days-2025/ https://landezine.com/14-21-february-underground-international-landscape-study-days-2025/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:46:46 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116113 The 21st edition of the International Landscape Study Days, organised by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, will be held in Treviso (at the Palazzo Bomben auditorium) on 20 and 21 February 2025, 10 am-17.30 pm, and in live streaming on the YouTube Channel of the Fondazione Benetton. The programme will be preceded on February 14, 5 […]]]> https://landezine.com/14-21-february-underground-international-landscape-study-days-2025/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/31-january-asla-2025-professional-awards-call-for-entries/ https://landezine.com/31-january-asla-2025-professional-awards-call-for-entries/#respond Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:12:52 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115767 Each year, the ASLA Professional Awards honor the best in landscape architecture from around the globe. Award recipients receive featured coverage in Landscape Architecture Magazine, the magazine of ASLA, and in many other design and construction industry and general-interest media. Award recipients, and their clients will be honored at the awards presentation ceremony during the ASLA […]]]> https://landezine.com/31-january-asla-2025-professional-awards-call-for-entries/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/14-february-new-european-bauhaus-boost-for-small-municipalities/ https://landezine.com/14-february-new-european-bauhaus-boost-for-small-municipalities/#respond Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:12:07 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115763 With the support of the European Parliament, the EU is launching a special initiative to empower small municipalities by awarding 20 prizes. This initiative aims to recognize the value of community-based projects that are aligned with the New European Bauhaus 1 European Parliament Pilot Project “Stimulating Local and Regional New European Bauhaus Grassroots Projects” (NEB) values […]]]> https://landezine.com/14-february-new-european-bauhaus-boost-for-small-municipalities/feed/ 0 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/29-january-tactical-urbanism-design-competition-torv-kyiv/ https://landezine.com/29-january-tactical-urbanism-design-competition-torv-kyiv/#respond Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:23:11 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115676 Organized by DIY Ukraine, this competition invites designers, architects, and urban planners worldwide to create innovative street furniture for Kontraktova Square in Kyiv, Ukraine. Following tactical urbanism principles, proposals should emphasize flexible, easy-to-build-and-remove interventions that also adopt trauma-sensitive design strategies—ensuring the space feels safe, welcoming, and inclusive. Participants are encouraged to use sustainable materials, inclusive […]]]> https://landezine.com/29-january-tactical-urbanism-design-competition-torv-kyiv/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/hold-still/ https://landezine.com/hold-still/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:44:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114978 With our 21st century attentions challenged by endless streams of information on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, as well as blockbuster films supercharged by quick cuts and loads of special effects, Roundhay Garden Scene is improbably well suited for our age: who really has the time to spend more than 1 or 2 seconds on any one piece of visual content?2 Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire, an 8-hour long, black-and-white movie featuring a single shot of New York City’s Empire State Building, offers a useful counterpoint.]]> https://landezine.com/hold-still/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/designing-inequality-audience-diversity-landscape-aesthetics-in-londons-olympic-legacy-park/ https://landezine.com/designing-inequality-audience-diversity-landscape-aesthetics-in-londons-olympic-legacy-park/#respond Wed, 08 Jan 2025 10:45:36 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114166 In 2014, in its first summer of opening, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP) had a problem with audience diversity.  Although residents in the park catchment were ethnically and racially mixed, its usership was disproportionately white.  My doctoral research1 found that the predominantly white Anglo-European park designers and client team had created a landscape which did […]]]> https://landezine.com/designing-inequality-audience-diversity-landscape-aesthetics-in-londons-olympic-legacy-park/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/california-is-burning-rethinking-the-wildland-suburban-interface/ https://landezine.com/california-is-burning-rethinking-the-wildland-suburban-interface/#comments Wed, 08 Jan 2025 07:19:00 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=39816 This article by Kelly Shannon and Donielle Kaufman was first published on 9 January 2018. With the recent fires around Los Angeles, we are bringing it into focus again in early 2025 as it sheds light on processes and hidden corners of the context that brought about California's 'wildfire epidemic'.]]> https://landezine.com/california-is-burning-rethinking-the-wildland-suburban-interface/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/eumies-awards-young-talent-2025-launch/ https://landezine.com/eumies-awards-young-talent-2025-launch/#respond Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:41:38 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115030 The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe open Call for the EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025, inviting schools to propose the best works from recently graduated architects, urban planners and landscape architects. Procedure:– Nominations are entirely free of charge and can only be made by schools by 29 January 2025.– Open to all […]]]> https://landezine.com/eumies-awards-young-talent-2025-launch/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/ai-in-landscape-architecture-beyond-the-myth-of-ai-human-rivalry/ https://landezine.com/ai-in-landscape-architecture-beyond-the-myth-of-ai-human-rivalry/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:38:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114071 ... what is the stage of AI in and outside the profession and discipline of landscape architecture? Many firms are now incorporating Generative AI into their workflow. Firms such as SWA have been able to fund research fellows exploring generative AI. Anecdotally, I have learned that other firms have similar internal initiatives. One trend is using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models), a lightweight training technique that can “fine-tune” one’s Stable Diffusion models to generate images in a certain style.]]> https://landezine.com/ai-in-landscape-architecture-beyond-the-myth-of-ai-human-rivalry/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/14-march-heritage-european-award-ahi/ https://landezine.com/14-march-heritage-european-award-ahi/#respond Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:48:09 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114726 Architectural Heritage Intervention (AHI) has launched the seventh edition of the European Award AHI, with registrations open from December 18, 2024, to March 14, 2025. A benchmark for heritage intervention since its inception in 2013, the award recognizes excellence across disciplines. The biennial event is jointly organized with the Architects’ Association of Catalonia and supported […]]]> https://landezine.com/14-march-heritage-european-award-ahi/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/designing-with-applied-philosophy/ https://landezine.com/designing-with-applied-philosophy/#comments Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114107 Today, the possibility arises to define a new design approach to address issues of environmental and social justice in the urban context. Based on an integrated understanding of the interdependencies involving human and environmental relations, the applied-philosophy approach for landscape architectural practices induces a paradigm shift in spatial design. Rather than applying downstream solutions to […]]]> https://landezine.com/designing-with-applied-philosophy/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/a-braid-of-reparations-reflections-on-keller-easterlings-atttnt/ https://landezine.com/a-braid-of-reparations-reflections-on-keller-easterlings-atttnt/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:13:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113699 Halloween evening in Brooklyn, New York. Outside, a menagerie of children milled the sidewalks in spooky costumes seeking offerings of candy. At the same time, a smaller coalition of diverse students, faculty, and researchers gathered inside Higgins Hall at Pratt Institute to engage in a tricky debate over public trailways, the return of indigenous lands, […]]]> https://landezine.com/a-braid-of-reparations-reflections-on-keller-easterlings-atttnt/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/deep-landscape/ https://landezine.com/deep-landscape/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:08:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113789 What do we actually know about the ground on which we stand, and how does it relate to our landscape projects Interventions on the surface of the landscape affect the underground as much as they are conditioned by it. Many processes pass through the grade of the ground, relating to water, energy, ecology and vegetation, with trees bridging above- and below grade. Organic matter is created in the ground, carbon is captured and stored there, and it is the habitat of various species. If we, as landscape architects, aim to incorporate ecology and hydrology into project development, the design phase must incorporate a thinking of above- and below grade as one.]]> https://landezine.com/deep-landscape/feed/ 0 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/shaping-discourse-reflections-on-the-isup-symposium-and-the-value-of-professional-symposia/ https://landezine.com/shaping-discourse-reflections-on-the-isup-symposium-and-the-value-of-professional-symposia/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:52:22 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113426 The 4th Symposium of the Istituto di Studi Urbani e del Paesaggio (ISUP), titled Landscape As Architecture, took place in Mendrisio, Switzerland, from November 13 to 15, 2024. Previous editions in the series explored themes of Climate Urbanism, Scale, and Density. Out of over 250 submissions, the curators, Jonathan Sergison, João Nunes, and João Gomes […]]]> https://landezine.com/shaping-discourse-reflections-on-the-isup-symposium-and-the-value-of-professional-symposia/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscapism-in-nature-conservation/ https://landezine.com/landscapism-in-nature-conservation/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:26:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113241 Dr. Jevgeniy Bluwstein, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Bern, examines how the reductive Western view of landscapes reinforces colonization through exclusionary conservation practices, focusing on a case study of Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. Introducing the term "landscapism," meaning the "double movement of colonizing landscapes/landscaping colonies," Bluwstein offers a critical perspective, advocating for viewing landscapes through a lens of relationality.]]> https://landezine.com/landscapism-in-nature-conservation/feed/ 4 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/designing-for-people-with-bad-intentions/ https://landezine.com/designing-for-people-with-bad-intentions/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:42:08 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106498 The boulevard of Nice, a Christmas market in Berlin or the headquarters of a Dutch newspaper – the past decade has seen a rising number of attacks with a vehicle as a weapon. Following these attacks, city officials started to look differently at their public space. How do we keep our public spaces safe and […]]]> https://landezine.com/designing-for-people-with-bad-intentions/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/15-januar-open-ideas-competition-tempelhof-feld/ https://landezine.com/15-januar-open-ideas-competition-tempelhof-feld/#respond Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:14:33 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113085 Purpose of the Competition Following the closure of Tempelhof Airport, Berlin gained a key urban open space now enjoyed for recreation. Protected by the Tempelhofer Feld Law, this area faces new challenges, including housing needs. Berlin’s CDU and SPD coalition is considering thoughtful peripheral development, retaining most of the space for public use. This open […]]]> https://landezine.com/15-januar-open-ideas-competition-tempelhof-feld/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/aila-2024-national-landscape-awards-winners/ https://landezine.com/aila-2024-national-landscape-awards-winners/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:01:28 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112693 Following the AILA preliminary regional awards that recognize outstanding projects within specific states or territories, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects has announced the winners of the 2024 National Landscape Architecture Awards, recognizing 43 outstanding projects across 16 categories. Jury chair Andrew Thomas praised this year’s winners for their exemplary design, leadership, and commitment to […]]]> https://landezine.com/aila-2024-national-landscape-awards-winners/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/triple-win-in-the-loop-awards-2024-for-okra/ https://landezine.com/triple-win-in-the-loop-awards-2024-for-okra/#respond Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:04:46 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112495 OKRA has been awarded as Best Landscape Design Firm, and two projects have been chosen as Landscape Designs of the Year 2024 by the LOOP Design Awards! The former deportation station of Bobigny was recognized in the Heritage Design category, while Catharijnesingel has won in Parks & Open Space. The projects stood out among over 500 […]]]> https://landezine.com/triple-win-in-the-loop-awards-2024-for-okra/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/26-november-jellicoe-lecture-making-places-fit-for-living/ https://landezine.com/26-november-jellicoe-lecture-making-places-fit-for-living/#respond Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:32:49 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112486 The Landscape Institute (LI) is hosting its annual Jellicoe Lecture in London, focusing on the integration of landscape and nature-based solutions in housing development. Responding to the UK government’s emphasis on housing growth and planning reform, the lecture will underscore the critical role landscape plays in creating high-quality, sustainable living environments. Attendees, including professionals from […]]]> https://landezine.com/26-november-jellicoe-lecture-making-places-fit-for-living/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/winners-of-the-2024-european-prize-for-urban-public-space-announced/ https://landezine.com/winners-of-the-2024-european-prize-for-urban-public-space-announced/#respond Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:10:28 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112375 The 2024 European Prize for Urban Public Space is in its twelfth edition. The jury selected two projects: the “Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound” in Warsaw, Poland, which is also this year’s LILA winner, and the “Beach improvement and redevelopment of the harbour edge” in Porto do Son, Spain. In the Seafronts Category, the […]]]> https://landezine.com/winners-of-the-2024-european-prize-for-urban-public-space-announced/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/ostengen-bergo-win-the-norwegian-la-award-with-torghatten/ https://landezine.com/ostengen-bergo-win-the-norwegian-la-award-with-torghatten/#respond Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:49:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112294 The Torghatten nature path project has won the 2024 Landscape Architecture Award, presented by the Norwegian Association of Landscape Architects (NLA). The award celebrates Østengen & Bergo Landskapsarkitekter MNLA who won the award in partnership with the client, the Tourist Road Section of the National Road Administration, for skillfully balancing the protection of nature with […]]]> https://landezine.com/ostengen-bergo-win-the-norwegian-la-award-with-torghatten/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/garden-and-metaphor-essays-on-the-essence-of-the-garden/ https://landezine.com/garden-and-metaphor-essays-on-the-essence-of-the-garden/#respond Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:22:15 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112104 Dušan Ogrin (1929-2019) was the pioneer of Slovenian landscape architecture. In 1972, he founded the Landscape Architecture programme at the University of Ljubljana. His seminal work The World Heritage of Gardens was published in 1993, so it was not too far-fetched to dedicate a book in his memory to the topic of gardens. The editors […]]]> https://landezine.com/garden-and-metaphor-essays-on-the-essence-of-the-garden/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/22-november-runway-design-competition-toronto-ca/ https://landezine.com/22-november-runway-design-competition-toronto-ca/#respond Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:41:23 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112109 Northcrest Developments has launched a global design competition to transform a 2-km decommissioned runway at the former Downsview Airport in Toronto into a vibrant pedestrian corridor. The competition aims to make the runway a key feature of the future 370-acre community, connecting seven neighborhoods with public spaces, amenities, and recreational areas for 55,000 residents and […]]]> https://landezine.com/22-november-runway-design-competition-toronto-ca/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lausanne-jardins-2024/ https://landezine.com/lausanne-jardins-2024/#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2024 11:59:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111845 Rhys Williams is the program director for landscape architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. Rhys visited the experimental garden festival in Switzerland, Lausanne Jardins. Here is his take on the context and a selection of exhibited projects. ]]> https://landezine.com/lausanne-jardins-2024/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/2024-asla-professional-awards-winners/ https://landezine.com/2024-asla-professional-awards-winners/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:56:59 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111929 The ASLA Awards celebrate excellence in landscape architecture, recognizing outstanding projects across categories like General Design, Residential Design, Urban Design, and more. These awards highlight innovative and sustainable projects that improve the quality of life, promote ecological resilience, and address pressing societal challenges. The awards are judged by a distinguished jury of professionals in the […]]]> https://landezine.com/2024-asla-professional-awards-winners/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/book-tips-gary-hilderbrand/ https://landezine.com/book-tips-gary-hilderbrand/#respond Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:47:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111820 We asked Gary Hilderbrand (Reed Hilderbrand, Harvard GSD) to suggest three books that are relevant to landscape architects and should be more known in the profession. Here is his proposal: _ 1. The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture by Emanuele Coccia / Polity, 2018 This is a book that you just have to […]]]> https://landezine.com/book-tips-gary-hilderbrand/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-harm-of-harmonising/ https://landezine.com/the-harm-of-harmonising/#comments Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:23:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111731 As we confront the growing ecological crisis, it becomes increasingly difficult to argue that harmonious aesthetics, designed primarily for pleasure and ease, are always the most effective mode of expression. Perhaps there is space to question whether ecological efforts demand a different aesthetic attitude, one less fixated on traditional notions of balance and spatial conformity and more open to dissensus and confrontation.]]> https://landezine.com/the-harm-of-harmonising/feed/ 3 https://landezine.com/31-october-abundance-talks-invasive-building/ https://landezine.com/31-october-abundance-talks-invasive-building/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:31:51 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111713 You are invited to attend the Abundance Talks at the Columbia GSAPP in person or online on October 31st at 12 p.m. EST. The talk includes speakers Manu Karuka (Barnard) and Adrian Anagnost (Tulane) who will address how is nature portrayed as suitable for conquest? These two talks illustrate how the distribution of abundance—as a […]]]> https://landezine.com/31-october-abundance-talks-invasive-building/feed/ 0 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/8-november-nsl-collquium-open-call-beyond-maintenance/ https://landezine.com/8-november-nsl-collquium-open-call-beyond-maintenance/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:43:37 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111308 The 2025 Colloquium by Network City and Landscape, NSL, titled “Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes,” will be held at ETH Zürich from February 26-28, 2025, under the invitation of Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard. The event aims to explore the integration of landscape design and maintenance in response to evolving environmental and social challenges. With […]]]> https://landezine.com/8-november-nsl-collquium-open-call-beyond-maintenance/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/17-18-october-ifla-europe-ga-in-budapest-hu/ https://landezine.com/17-18-october-ifla-europe-ga-in-budapest-hu/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:29:35 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111302 35th IFLA Europe Regional Conference, themed PLAN[E]TSCAPE, will be hosted in Budapest by the Hungarian Association of Landscape Architects. The conference will focus on the role of landscape architecture in tackling environmental challenges through innovative design and sustainable plant use. As a key gathering for European landscape professionals, the conference will explore the profession’s potential […]]]> https://landezine.com/17-18-october-ifla-europe-ga-in-budapest-hu/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/laura-menatti-can-the-right-to-landscape-bridge-socio-environmental-challenges/ https://landezine.com/laura-menatti-can-the-right-to-landscape-bridge-socio-environmental-challenges/#comments Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:55:31 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110831 In the current debate about climate change and its disruptive effects on the health of people and ecosystems, the reclamation of the ‘right to the environment’ has gained momentum, both in theoretical accounts and in legal documents. Yet, it is useful to make a first distinction between the right to the environment and the right of the environment.]]> https://landezine.com/laura-menatti-can-the-right-to-landscape-bridge-socio-environmental-challenges/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/urban-soundscapes-and-design-through-listening/ https://landezine.com/urban-soundscapes-and-design-through-listening/#respond Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:47:45 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110844 Landscape architects usually think of compact greenery as the sound buffer minimizing noise pollution but we rarely think about specifically designing with sound, acoustics of space and the soundscape present at the site of intervention. Especially in the art scene, the sonification of plants, microbes, underwater creatures and their otherwise unheard processes, gained special attention […]]]> https://landezine.com/urban-soundscapes-and-design-through-listening/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/21-october-open-call-by-data-through-design-corpus-bodies-of-data/ https://landezine.com/21-october-open-call-by-data-through-design-corpus-bodies-of-data/#respond Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:23:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110998 Data Through Design invites you to participate in the annual exhibition where participants “creatively analyze, interpret and interrogate data made available in NYC’s Open Data Portal. With art’s capacity to capture the human experience, DxD surfaces hidden stories, disrupts widely accepted patterns, and questions claims to objectivity of data-driven narratives.” This 2025 theme is “Corpus: […]]]> https://landezine.com/21-october-open-call-by-data-through-design-corpus-bodies-of-data/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/17-18-october-1st-urban-greening-biennal-in-porto-pt/ https://landezine.com/17-18-october-1st-urban-greening-biennal-in-porto-pt/#respond Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:45:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110959 The 1st Porto Urban Greening Biennial will address the current and future challenges of Urban Green Infrastructure installation and management – a key strategy to address the climate emergency and foster environmental justice, social cohesion, and integration.
 The theme of this first edition is Planting the Living City, which will be supported by the invited […]]]> https://landezine.com/17-18-october-1st-urban-greening-biennal-in-porto-pt/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/20-21-september-international-meeting-landscape-festival-bergamo-it/ https://landezine.com/20-21-september-international-meeting-landscape-festival-bergamo-it/#respond Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:59:30 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110757 The 13th edition of the Landscape Festival, titled Facing the Crisis, organized by Arketipos, will be held at Teatro Sociale in Bergamo, Italy, and will be accompanied by the international meeting.The opening will be followed by speakers, including Catherine Mosbach, who designed this year’s exhibition garden. Speakers include practitioners from all over the globe, from […]]]> https://landezine.com/20-21-september-international-meeting-landscape-festival-bergamo-it/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/gary-hilderbrand-the-world-is-too-cacophonous-and-i-think-its-in-our-power-to-calm-a-place/ https://landezine.com/gary-hilderbrand-the-world-is-too-cacophonous-and-i-think-its-in-our-power-to-calm-a-place/#comments Sat, 14 Sep 2024 21:01:52 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110536 Gary Hilderbrand has been teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Design since 1990 and is currently the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. He is also the founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand, a leading landscape architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm was established in the […]]]> https://landezine.com/gary-hilderbrand-the-world-is-too-cacophonous-and-i-think-its-in-our-power-to-calm-a-place/feed/ 1 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/31-october-la-call-for-abstracts-on-memory/ https://landezine.com/31-october-la-call-for-abstracts-on-memory/#respond Sun, 01 Sep 2024 22:16:28 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110525 Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, LA+ is inviting for submissions from academics, writers, artists, critics, to contribute with a topic on MEMORY. Should you be interested, see more information following this link. “Landscape speaks by way of constant change, rooted in process and evolution – the marks of water along a shoreline, seasonal cycles of […]]]> https://landezine.com/31-october-la-call-for-abstracts-on-memory/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/15-september-call-for-ideas-radicepura-garden-festival/ https://landezine.com/15-september-call-for-ideas-radicepura-garden-festival/#respond Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:30:53 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108572 Radicepura Garden Festival announces the Call for Ideas to participate in the fifth edition of the Biennale dedicated to garden design, which will have the topic Chaos (and) Order in the Garden from an idea of Antonio Perazzi, artistic director of the festival. The international call is open to students, landscape architects, agronomists, garden designers, […]]]> https://landezine.com/15-september-call-for-ideas-radicepura-garden-festival/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/7-10-september-eclas-annual-conference/ https://landezine.com/7-10-september-eclas-annual-conference/#respond Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:57:49 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=109809 We invite you to register for the ECLAS conference titled Regenerative Landscapes. Designing the Transition. Keynote speakers are Alexandre Chemetoff, Dr. Rachel Lilley, Nathan Barlow, Dr. Sandra Groll and Gilles Doignon. More information is available on the ECLAS Conference website. “ECLAS 2024 will discuss the capacity of landscape as an approach and a method for […]]]> https://landezine.com/7-10-september-eclas-annual-conference/feed/ 0 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/the-finalists-for-the-european-prize-for-urban-public-space-2024/ https://landezine.com/the-finalists-for-the-european-prize-for-urban-public-space-2024/#respond Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:16:04 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=109201 In the selection for the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2024, organised by of the CCCB, there are a number of high-quality landscape architecture projects as well, we congratulate all the nominees! The International Jury, comprised of Beth Galí, Sonia Curnier, Fabrizio Gallanti, Žaklina Gligorijević, Beate Hølmebakk, Manon Mollard, Francesco Musco and Lluís Ortega, […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-finalists-for-the-european-prize-for-urban-public-space-2024/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-trees-and-beasts-or-how-ideas-of-nature-shape-our-spaces/ https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-trees-and-beasts-or-how-ideas-of-nature-shape-our-spaces/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:07:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108627 “Excerpts from a project on Trees and Beasts” Denise Hoffman Brandt© Denise Hoffman What do we actually mean when we talk about nature? As a professor in a discipline that since the early 1970s has, mostly, claimed to practice “design with nature”—referencing Ian McHarg’s book (1969) of that title—that’s a question I have often asked. […]]]> https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-trees-and-beasts-or-how-ideas-of-nature-shape-our-spaces/feed/ 5 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/5-august-open-call-barcelonas-blind-walls/ https://landezine.com/5-august-open-call-barcelonas-blind-walls/#respond Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:13:25 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108581 Barcelona launches an international ideas competition for young architects to transform 10 dividing walls and improve its public space. – The call, made jointly with UNESCO and the International Union of Architects, is the first step towards the World Capital of Architecture 2026 and is part of the legacy that the event will leave in […]]]> https://landezine.com/5-august-open-call-barcelonas-blind-walls/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lila-2024-recognitions-announced/ https://landezine.com/lila-2024-recognitions-announced/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:11:26 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108488 Members of the LILA 2024 Jury, Catherine Mosbach, Joost Emmerik, Lilli Lička, Lisa Diedrich, and Zaš Brezar selected projects for the 9th edition of LILA. Editors of Landezine selected the LILA Honour Award, LILA Office Award and LILA Portfolio Award. Landezine congratulates all the recognized practices and thanks the members of the jury, all participants […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-2024-recognitions-announced/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/art-exhibition-series-watching-the-glacier-go-away/ https://landezine.com/art-exhibition-series-watching-the-glacier-go-away/#comments Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:19:12 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108422 This summer, throughout Switzerland, you can attend the curated observation of the ongoing phenomenon of glaciers melting. Art installations, performances and exhibitions, scattered about the Alpine landscape, are informed by this exclusive moment in climate history that will forever change our landscapes. The melting progresses with the proportion of the loss of albedo surface. Although […]]]> https://landezine.com/art-exhibition-series-watching-the-glacier-go-away/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/30-june-call-for-submissions-forest-encounters/ https://landezine.com/30-june-call-for-submissions-forest-encounters/#respond Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:08:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108418 FOREST ENCOUNTERS: short stories, flash fiction, poetry, essays The European cooperation project FOREST ENCOUNTERS is looking for representations of different encounters with the forest from both human and non-human perspectives. The FOREST ENCOUNTERS project explores and proposes diverse imaginaries, concepts, and practices around the following questions: What and how can we learn with and through […]]]> https://landezine.com/30-june-call-for-submissions-forest-encounters/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/20-june-ifla-apr-talk-landscapes-in-motion/ https://landezine.com/20-june-ifla-apr-talk-landscapes-in-motion/#respond Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:44:41 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108311 Cycling has become an essential component of landscape design as people looked for alternative modes of transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic. This shift highlighted cycling as a viable option, which offers various health benefits and promotes healthier lifestyles. The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes numerous benefits of cycling, which includes improved public health and a […]]]> https://landezine.com/20-june-ifla-apr-talk-landscapes-in-motion/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/june-30-open-call-to-study-projects-designed-in-community/ https://landezine.com/june-30-open-call-to-study-projects-designed-in-community/#respond Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:45:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108268 PennPraxis by Weitzman School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania invites you to apply for an award to participate in Case Studies in Design, a collective writing and thinking project that will create opportunities for community and design leaders to think together about ways to catalyze transformational design, planning, and place-keeping from the ground up. […]]]> https://landezine.com/june-30-open-call-to-study-projects-designed-in-community/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/30-august-landscape-scholarships-call-by-fbsr/ https://landezine.com/30-august-landscape-scholarships-call-by-fbsr/#respond Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:25:31 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=107830 Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche offers landscape study scholarships on a yearly basis to support young graduates who wish to carry out research into the landscape and gardens culture and in the field of the care of places. The scholarships focus on three thematic areas which correspond to the cultural profile and field of activity of […]]]> https://landezine.com/30-august-landscape-scholarships-call-by-fbsr/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/dan-kiley-exhibition-interview-with-charles-birnbaum-tclf/ https://landezine.com/dan-kiley-exhibition-interview-with-charles-birnbaum-tclf/#respond Fri, 31 May 2024 08:01:02 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=107684 Charles Birnbaum is the CEO and founder of TCLF—The Cultural Landscape Foundation. In his work, he is a fearless advocate and activist for significant American landscape architecture sites. He was honored as a 2020 LILA Honour Award Winner for initiating and developing TCLF for over 25 years with an “innovative vision, executed with great precision, […]]]> https://landezine.com/dan-kiley-exhibition-interview-with-charles-birnbaum-tclf/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/28-may-15-july-international-contest-space-for-ideas-for-an-area-in-stuttgart/ https://landezine.com/28-may-15-july-international-contest-space-for-ideas-for-an-area-in-stuttgart/#respond Wed, 22 May 2024 13:08:31 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=107544 The City of Stuttgart launched The international ideas contest “Space for Ideas”. A total prize money of 30,000 euros is available. Anyone can participate – from individuals to enterprises, from students and schoolchildren to clubs and associations. All ideas are welcome. In particular, participation by international organisations are welcome, so all information will also be […]]]> https://landezine.com/28-may-15-july-international-contest-space-for-ideas-for-an-area-in-stuttgart/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/15-june-landslide-2024-demonstration-grounds-call-for-nominations-tclf/ https://landezine.com/15-june-landslide-2024-demonstration-grounds-call-for-nominations-tclf/#respond Wed, 22 May 2024 09:49:34 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=107514 The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has opened a call for nominations for Landslide, the foundation’s annual thematic report about threatened and at-risk landscapes. Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds will focus on sites associated with demonstrations and movements. “These multiple associations are waiting to be unlocked at almost every historic property or cultural landscape that has served […]]]> https://landezine.com/15-june-landslide-2024-demonstration-grounds-call-for-nominations-tclf/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/3-april-july-2-democratic-landscape-transformation-seminar-ola/ https://landezine.com/3-april-july-2-democratic-landscape-transformation-seminar-ola/#respond Wed, 22 May 2024 08:29:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=107510 Open Landscape Academy invites you to join an online seminar from April 3 to June 2 on Democratic Landscape Transformation. The seminar focuses on building a prototype collaborative model that “engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape […]]]> https://landezine.com/3-april-july-2-democratic-landscape-transformation-seminar-ola/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-as-architecture-call-for-papers-31-may/ https://landezine.com/landscape-as-architecture-call-for-papers-31-may/#respond Sun, 05 May 2024 10:18:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106667 Call for papers for the symposium LANDSCAPE AS ARCHITECTURE Istituto di Studi Urbani e del Paesaggio (ISUP)Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio, Switzerland 13th, 14th and 15th November 2024 Landscape architecture is a powerful tool for addressing issues that have generally been neglected in architectural research and practice until recently.Innovative methodological approaches inherent to the multidisciplinary […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-as-architecture-call-for-papers-31-may/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/shtscapes-100-mistakes-in-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/shtscapes-100-mistakes-in-landscape-architecture/#respond Fri, 03 May 2024 13:02:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106651 Sh*tscapes is a 160-page book by London-based landscape architects Vladimir Guculak and Paul Bourel. They are also founders of studio gb, landscape architecture and design studio focused on the integration of nature into the city.]]> https://landezine.com/shtscapes-100-mistakes-in-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 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/webinar-by-felixx-on-nbs/ https://landezine.com/webinar-by-felixx-on-nbs/#respond Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:56:30 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=105851 Felixx is organizing a handful of events, accompanying the New European Bauhaus Festival. Read more about their AGENDA apply for events and more. Want to know about the power of Nature-Based Solutions? Felixx invites you to a webinar performed by Eduardo Marin Salinas. “More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and that number […]]]> https://landezine.com/webinar-by-felixx-on-nbs/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/july-18-competition-for-conceptual-design-of-the-forest-park-in-podgorica/ https://landezine.com/july-18-competition-for-conceptual-design-of-the-forest-park-in-podgorica/#respond Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:53:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106476 Capital city Podgorica announces a public call for conceptual design of the Forest Park in Lješkopoljska Gorica in Podgorica. This Competition aims to achieve a comprehensive vision for the Forest Park Gorica that, through the transformation of underutilized spaces and innovative landscape-architectural solutions, will support the existing green infrastructure and drive the future vision for […]]]> https://landezine.com/july-18-competition-for-conceptual-design-of-the-forest-park-in-podgorica/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/28-april-kerb-journal-open-call-for-submissions/ https://landezine.com/28-april-kerb-journal-open-call-for-submissions/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2024 03:06:46 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106197 KERB Journal, a student-led landscape architecture publication produced by RMIT University in Melbourne, is interested in expressions of interest (EOI) for submission that speak to the UNSAID, within but also expanding beyond the discipline of landscape architecture. They are seeking a Max 200-word abstract, EOI’s will be received by COB 28 April 2024. Key examples […]]]> https://landezine.com/28-april-kerb-journal-open-call-for-submissions/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/30-april-soak-it-up-designing-with-and-for-flooding/ https://landezine.com/30-april-soak-it-up-designing-with-and-for-flooding/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2024 01:24:28 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106100 The Cultural Landscape Foundation is organizing a conversation with Kongjian Yu, 2023 Oberlander Prize laureate, and Pieter Schengenga, director of H+N+S Landscape Architects, the Netherlands, moderated by Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, University of Virginia. You can register for virtual participation on the 30th of April, from 10:00 – 11:15 AM ET. “Climate change is accelerating […]]]> https://landezine.com/30-april-soak-it-up-designing-with-and-for-flooding/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/ifla-launches-global-studio-program/ https://landezine.com/ifla-launches-global-studio-program/#respond Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:19:45 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=105835 IFLA GSP is a first step into integrating global landscape architecture academia. The program ties together 4 charettes associated with major LA events across 4 IFLA regions with the objective of research and development regarding the LA future leadership and a global network of LA education institutions. The LA events will take place during Autumn […]]]> https://landezine.com/ifla-launches-global-studio-program/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/24-28-june-landscape-forum-2024-in-tartu-and-southern-estonia/ https://landezine.com/24-28-june-landscape-forum-2024-in-tartu-and-southern-estonia/#respond Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:25:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=105841 Registrations for the Landscape Forum 2024, organised by LE:NOTRE Institute and ECLAS, are now open. Forum will take place in Tartu, Estonia, from June 24 – 28, 2024, hosted by the Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU). The focus topic is The Landscape as the Container of the Bioeconomy, with working groups on water, forests, fibrescapes, […]]]> https://landezine.com/24-28-june-landscape-forum-2024-in-tartu-and-southern-estonia/feed/ 0