https://landezine.com Landscape Architecture Platform Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:21:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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/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/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/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/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/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/krater-ljubljana-creative-laboratory-in-a-construction-pit-by-krater-collective/ https://landezine.com/krater-ljubljana-creative-laboratory-in-a-construction-pit-by-krater-collective/#respond Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122329 Krater includes no landscape architects and follows no formal landscape architecture plan. Yet it is an intervention in landscape that stands as a provocative inquiry into the status of abandoned plots embedded within the urban fabric. The project poses fundamental questions: is a site truly ‘neglected’ if a thriving biotope has already taken hold? Could such a space, in its self-organized vitality, already constitute a form of an urban park? How to organize the social dimension? Krater unfolds as an expedition into landscape itself—an open-ended investigation in which fragmented architectural elements function as instruments of observation, experiment, and reflection. The site operates as a living laboratory, challenging conventional practices of open space production and the disciplinary boundaries of landscape architecture. It addresses relevant uncertainties the Anthropocene entails, engaging critically with issues of multi-species coexistence and the contested notion of environmental harmonization. At a time when landscape architecture often seeks to simulate nature through aesthetic approximation or even mimicry, Krater seems oblivious to such representational impulses. Its proposition is radical in its restraint: rather than imposing form, it frames this ‘third landscape’ as a space of ecological processes, social encounter and experiment, revealing alternative logics of co-inhabitation, agency and design—logics that may become increasingly relevant as landscape architecture confronts its own ecological, ethical and epistemological limits. - from the award statements]]> https://landezine.com/krater-ljubljana-creative-laboratory-in-a-construction-pit-by-krater-collective/feed/ 0 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/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/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/transforming-the-aproz-wastewater-treatment-system-into-a-playground-by-en-dehors/ https://landezine.com/transforming-the-aproz-wastewater-treatment-system-into-a-playground-by-en-dehors/#respond Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:04:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121863 The jury recognized the imaginative adaptive reuse of a former wastewater infrastructure, from a discarded concrete object into a lively playscape that engages children in an unusual setting and encourages them to discover new means of play. It is precisely the abstract dimension of the playground, these unique specifics, that separate the playscape from strictly catalogue-based playgrounds and contribute to children’s emancipation and development. In doing so, it affirms play as a creative, cognitive, and social practice—contributing to children’s emancipation from rigid, predefined systems of interaction. The result is an outstanding playscape, both ecological due to adaptive reuse and socially fulfilling. - from the award statements]]> https://landezine.com/transforming-the-aproz-wastewater-treatment-system-into-a-playground-by-en-dehors/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/parco-della-pace-by-pan-associati-and-emf-estudi-marti-franch/ https://landezine.com/parco-della-pace-by-pan-associati-and-emf-estudi-marti-franch/#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:08:23 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121792 Parco della Pace is a transformation of a former airport into a vast ecological machine that operates simultaneously as water infrastructure, biodiversity habitat, and public space. Parco della Pace offers a complex interplay of geometries—traces of the former runway, the rigid grids of adjacent military grounds, and the superimposed logic of new water systems—generating a distinct spatial language that remains legible at multiple scales. What distinguishes this project is its unapologetic embrace of scale, engineering, and earthworks, yet without sacrificing ecological subtlety. The site functions as a large-scale detention basin, integrating hydrological processes into a resilient landscape capable of absorbing and slowly releasing floodwaters. Water becomes both technical infrastructure and ecological mediator, generating new habitat edges and transitional ecotones that allow species to recolonize this former infrastructural void. Beyond its technical accomplishments, Parco della Pace also offers a productive ambiguity between program and process. Today, it offers a base that is generous, extensive, and resolutely territorial in scale. In time, it will negotiate between the formal and the open-ended, between cultural programming and wilderness zones left to self-organisation. The project resists the impulse for total scripting, instead establishing a layered framework that will evolve across ecological time. In this sense, the park presents a form of engineered openness, where large-scale interventions initiate processes whose full resolution remains necessarily incomplete. – from the LILA Jury statements]]> https://landezine.com/parco-della-pace-by-pan-associati-and-emf-estudi-marti-franch/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/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/anette-freytag-academia-can-and-must-reach-the-public/ https://landezine.com/anette-freytag-academia-can-and-must-reach-the-public/#comments Thu, 29 May 2025 07:48:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120693 Dr. Anette Freytag is a relentless researcher, moving between academia, activism, and public engagement. She taught at ETH Zurich, the University of Basel, and the Technical University of Innsbruck before joining Rutgers University, where she is the Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape Architecture at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Freytag […]]]> https://landezine.com/anette-freytag-academia-can-and-must-reach-the-public/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/de-demonising-fire-designing-with-disturbance/ https://landezine.com/de-demonising-fire-designing-with-disturbance/#respond Mon, 26 May 2025 10:17:49 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120532 The volume On the Side of Fire. Rites, approaches and cultivation practices in landscapes is the twenty-first edition in the “Memorie” series by the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche (FBSR), a Treviso-based international centre for landscape studies and research, founded by Luciano Benetton in 1987, focusing on history, geography, natural and cultural heritage. Opening space for […]]]> https://landezine.com/de-demonising-fire-designing-with-disturbance/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-europe-full-of-life/ https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-europe-full-of-life/#respond Wed, 07 May 2025 11:33:41 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120153 The Landscape Architecture Europe Foundation (LAE) has published the 7th edition of its book series, titled Full of Life. With each issue released triennially, the editorial board delves into high-quality landscape architecture projects, tracing the evolution of this young profession and highlighting the significance of addressing climate and social issues while crafting beautiful spaces. The […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-europe-full-of-life/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/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/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/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-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/being-hyper-aware-cobe/ https://landezine.com/being-hyper-aware-cobe/#respond Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:45:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119409 Cobe is on the side of the “progressives” in the profession, working at one of the most urban-eco-technologically progressive centres worldwide, Copenhagen in Denmark. Their merging of cross-disciplinary work into a “meaningful whole”, creating interfaces at different scales of contact, pushing the boundaries of engagement – from the threshold of their office, into the neighbouring […]]]> https://landezine.com/being-hyper-aware-cobe/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/too-dirty-to-enter-on-passporting-traceability/ https://landezine.com/too-dirty-to-enter-on-passporting-traceability/#respond Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:41:16 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119302 In December this year, the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation will start to apply to medium and large operators and traders. For micro and small enterprises, the same rules will apply next year. This means that if a commodity, such as cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soya, rubber, or wood, and products derived from those commodities, […]]]> https://landezine.com/too-dirty-to-enter-on-passporting-traceability/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/forest-intercalations/ https://landezine.com/forest-intercalations/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:39:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116571 Collectively, all humans experience 8 billion days in 24 hours. That is about 22 million years lived in one day. When one starts to think about time in that way, it seems inevitable to envision the collective impact of human life on Earth. ]]> https://landezine.com/forest-intercalations/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/futures-of-the-river-by-landscape-architects-reimagining-birrarung/ https://landezine.com/futures-of-the-river-by-landscape-architects-reimagining-birrarung/#respond Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:22:23 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116309 At a moment when another “inanimate natural entity”, the Taranaki Maunga, a mountain in New Zealand, is granted personhood, The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne, Australia, is holding an exhibition, Reimagining Birrarung, Design Concepts for 2070, on the future of Yarra River, it’s catchment area and people, envisioned by landscape architects. The exhibition […]]]> https://landezine.com/futures-of-the-river-by-landscape-architects-reimagining-birrarung/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/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/kamel-louafis-arabesques/ https://landezine.com/kamel-louafis-arabesques/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:25:21 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115685 Kamel Louafi is a landscape architect with a touch of classic grandiose. His work is instilled with a perennial feel that abides by the expressive tools of the visual art theory yet includes a strong design voice of personal poetics. The difference Kamel Louafi creates, the un-anonymity of his work could be even marked as […]]]> https://landezine.com/kamel-louafis-arabesques/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/if-its-green-its-good-modern-urban-ecology-by-del-tredici/ https://landezine.com/if-its-green-its-good-modern-urban-ecology-by-del-tredici/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:36:37 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115794 Del Tredici’s argument is that these spontaneous plants are “de facto native urban flora” considering the novel conditions produced by humans. It is an argument against perceiving spontaneous vegetation including invasive, non-native plants and plants considered as weeds, to be less worthy. Labelling a plant “invasive” or “weed”, says Del Tredici, gives people the licence to blame it for ruining the environment and to get rid of it.]]> https://landezine.com/if-its-green-its-good-modern-urban-ecology-by-del-tredici/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/daniel-ganz-landscape-architecture-is-independent/ https://landezine.com/daniel-ganz-landscape-architecture-is-independent/#respond Mon, 20 Jan 2025 09:54:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115605 Daniel Ganz is a founder of a renowned office based in Zurich, Ganz Landschaftsarchitekten, whose work received many recognitions by opening the field into diverse directions resulting in unusual designs. In 2021, the monograph Ganz – Contemporary Swiss Landscape Architecture was published, presenting the reader with 10 works outlined by key themes like pleasure, labour, […]]]> https://landezine.com/daniel-ganz-landscape-architecture-is-independent/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/alexis-sanal-on-ordinary-utopias/ https://landezine.com/alexis-sanal-on-ordinary-utopias/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:08:03 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115091 "The tool is trying to counter the friction of power and reposition power as cooperation and co-creation early on to generate mature design briefs from the get-go. And that the process of participating for all parties is not a drudgery of boredom, frustrations and resulting anger or dismissal of feedback loops" ]]> https://landezine.com/alexis-sanal-on-ordinary-utopias/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/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/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/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/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/15-min-24-7-365-compact-city-masterplan/ https://landezine.com/15-min-24-7-365-compact-city-masterplan/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2024 13:03:44 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113216 We spoke with OMGEVING about their participation in the international open call to devise a new masterplan in České Budějovice in Czeck Republik. What are the key features of this master plan? The zoning plan will be ambitious in its visions, flexible for the future, unambiguous and simple for decision-making in the territory, and realistic […]]]> https://landezine.com/15-min-24-7-365-compact-city-masterplan/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/codesigning-hope-aqueous-landscapes-in-transition-by-laura-cipriani/ https://landezine.com/codesigning-hope-aqueous-landscapes-in-transition-by-laura-cipriani/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:03:39 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112902 Laura Cipriani is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Delft University of Technology and a founder of Superlandscape, a landscape and urban design firm. She holds a Ph.D. in Landscape Urbanism from IUAV, a master’s degree in landscape and urban issues from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a master’s in Architecture from IUAV. […]]]> https://landezine.com/codesigning-hope-aqueous-landscapes-in-transition-by-laura-cipriani/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/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/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/ https://landezine.com/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:00:08 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112035 Planet City is a worldbuilding project by Liam Young, envisioned as a multilayered city, occupying as little as 0,02 percent of Earth's surface yet hosting all of the human population. Planet City is testing the Half-Earth idea by Edward O. Wilson, where we put aside half of the planet, to keep biodiversity. We spoke with Liam Young about the idea and the exhibition he curates, Visions of Planet City.]]> https://landezine.com/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/ https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:31:22 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112385 Almost every park needs a playground area and children’s playgrounds are one of the toughest typologies to design. The equipment available is either ugly or beyond budget, especially in the public realm. Then the programme is repetitive — poles, slides, swings, climbing walls, sandpits. For the designer to cover the developmental needs of all ages […]]]> https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/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/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/modalities-modulations-models-openfabric/ https://landezine.com/modalities-modulations-models-openfabric/#respond Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:14:12 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111788 In this new series, we wish to highlight the value of models in the widest possible sense, from images to physical representations to diagrams … It’s about models, and modalities and modulations that formed them. It investigates the role of abstraction in representation, how all sorts of models serve as a communication device and also […]]]> https://landezine.com/modalities-modulations-models-openfabric/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/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/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/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/under-the-bridge/ https://landezine.com/under-the-bridge/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:41:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=109483 Bridges allow the landscape to flow underneath – or as in recent endeavours, in land bridges or ecoducts, nature flows over. In the latter, a bridge adjoins disconnected landscape portions created by cuts in the terrain. In any case, bridges form connections and links when a river or other barrier needs to be crossed. As […]]]> https://landezine.com/under-the-bridge/feed/ 4 https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-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/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/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/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/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/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/ifla-europe-talk-restoration-of-native-woodlands-and-sustainable-forestry-22-march/ https://landezine.com/ifla-europe-talk-restoration-of-native-woodlands-and-sustainable-forestry-22-march/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:52:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104958 IFLA Europe organizes a 3rd online event ‘Talk with Prof Ása L. Aradóttir on Restoration of native woodlands and sustainable forestry, on the 22nd of March 2024 at 13h CET Registration is required in advance for this event by following this link. The guest in this third Talk is Prof Ása L. Aradóttir, Professor, Department […]]]> https://landezine.com/ifla-europe-talk-restoration-of-native-woodlands-and-sustainable-forestry-22-march/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/tclf-mary-miss-and-women-of-land-art-webinar/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:01:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=105021 Mar 13, 2024, at 5 – 6:15pm CET Online Available Register Now “The threatened demolition of Mary Miss’ pioneering and influential site-specific installation Greenwood Pond: Double Site in the permanent collection of the Des Moines Art Center is the impetus for a 75-minute webinar about the significance and importance of land art by women artists. […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-novel-city-faux-nature-maze/ https://landezine.com/the-novel-city-faux-nature-maze/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:42:53 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104755 When we speak of Nature in cities, the question we want to stress is, is nature in cities natural or in fact an artefact? When we speak of natural processes, they of course take place but apart from spontaneous nature, left to random succession, emerging in spaces that Gilles Clément calls the third landscapes, there […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-novel-city-faux-nature-maze/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/espacio-escultorico-wins-prestigious-international-carlo-scarpa-prize/ https://landezine.com/espacio-escultorico-wins-prestigious-international-carlo-scarpa-prize/#respond Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:39:26 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104333 Awarded the prestigious 2023-2024 International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens, the Espacio Escultórico in Pedregal de San Ángel, Mexico City, is celebrated for its blend of art, nature, and history. This accolade, orchestrated by the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, shines a spotlight on spaces that embody extraordinary qualities of creativity, historical depth, and natural particularities. […]]]> https://landezine.com/espacio-escultorico-wins-prestigious-international-carlo-scarpa-prize/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/vectorworks-recommendation-renowned-firm-demonstrates-the-power-of-design-technology/ https://landezine.com/vectorworks-recommendation-renowned-firm-demonstrates-the-power-of-design-technology/#respond Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:23:41 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104306 McGregor Coxall, one of the world’s leading landscape architecture firms, uses digital design technology for spectacular outcomes. In the following project summaries, see how Vectorworks Landmark helps the firm conceptualize, model, analyze, and deliver standout projects. Cabramatta Creek Masterplan The masterplan for the Cabramatta Creek and Brickmakers Creek sites in Liverpool, NSW, aims to create […]]]> https://landezine.com/vectorworks-recommendation-renowned-firm-demonstrates-the-power-of-design-technology/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/ https://landezine.com/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/#comments Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:40:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104001 HPO is an art and event-architecture group from Ferrara. Their work has been, among other venues, presented at Milan Design Week and 18. Venice Biennale. In the interview, we discuss the marginal position, DIY, incomplete architecture and the importance of play.]]> https://landezine.com/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/ https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/#respond Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:49:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103907 Landezine talks to Andre Dekker, who, together with Ruud Reutelingsperger, Lieven Poutsma and Geert van de Camp, forms a public art collective Observatorium. In the video, Dekker gives a 30-minute-long presentation of some of Observatorium’s most recent and most important works. Their artworks traverse the realms of urban planning, landscape design, architectural innovation, and artistic […]]]> https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/soundscapes-international-landscape-study-days-2024-on-the-23-24-of-february-in-treviso-and-online/ https://landezine.com/soundscapes-international-landscape-study-days-2024-on-the-23-24-of-february-in-treviso-and-online/#comments Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:07:59 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103653 Soundscapes The experience of silence and sound in the landscape International Landscape Study Days Thursday 22-Friday 23 February 2024, Treviso and online Friday 16 February 2024, from 5 pm, online preview The 20th edition of the International Landscape Study Days, organised by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, will be held in Treviso (at the Palazzo Bomben […]]]> https://landezine.com/soundscapes-international-landscape-study-days-2024-on-the-23-24-of-february-in-treviso-and-online/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/conference-forest-futures-harvard-gsd-feb-15-16/ https://landezine.com/conference-forest-futures-harvard-gsd-feb-15-16/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:49:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103987 The Harvard Graduate School of Design organized a two-day conference titled Forest Futures: Will the Forest Save Us All? It is open to the public and available via streaming. Planetary survival in the Anthropocene crucially depends on the stewardship of resilient forest ecosystems worldwide—at the scales of wilderness, planted forests, metropolitan tracts, and the urban […]]]> https://landezine.com/conference-forest-futures-harvard-gsd-feb-15-16/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/tim-waterman-on-astronauts-lsd-and-landscape-architecture-lecture-qa/ https://landezine.com/tim-waterman-on-astronauts-lsd-and-landscape-architecture-lecture-qa/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:22:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104366 Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory and Inter-Programme Collaboration Director at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He is Chair of the Landscape Research Group (LRG), a Non-Executive Director of the digital arts collective Furtherfield, and an advisor to the Centre for Landscape Democracy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is also […]]]> https://landezine.com/tim-waterman-on-astronauts-lsd-and-landscape-architecture-lecture-qa/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lila-2023-lisa-diedrich-on-aesthetics-of-the-transitory-and-operating-as-a-radicant/ https://landezine.com/lila-2023-lisa-diedrich-on-aesthetics-of-the-transitory-and-operating-as-a-radicant/#respond Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:13:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103230 In this interview, Zaš Brezar talks to Prof. Dr. Lisa Diedrich, the winner of LILA 2023 Honour Award. She speaks about her professional development throughout the years and specifically about being a ‘straddler’ between professional practice and academia. She references several books and projects that inspire her as a landscape architect, architect, journalist and especially […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-2023-lisa-diedrich-on-aesthetics-of-the-transitory-and-operating-as-a-radicant/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/ https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:03:39 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=102644 Landezine met with Taktyk at the XII Barcelona International Landscape Biennial in November 2023, at the same place where we made the first interview, seven years ago. Taktyk’s work is a collage of collaborations showing sensitivity to the site, tackling its most vulnerable spots. Sébastien Penfornis and Thierry Kandjee seek through prospective visions, on-site works […]]]> https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-2/ https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-2/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:28:27 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=101444 We continue with French philosopher Michel Foucault. In his 1967 speech to an architecture audience, he introduced the concept of "heterotopia". It was published in 1984 as an essay, Des Espaces Autres (Of Other Spaces), and it deals with the nature of space and its relation to society. Heterotopias are unique spatial entities that challenge conventional notions of space and compel reflection on the social, cultural, and ideological matters of our world.]]> https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-2/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/interview-with-gunther-vogt-ecology-is-invisible/ https://landezine.com/interview-with-gunther-vogt-ecology-is-invisible/#respond Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:35:23 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=101256 Günther Vogt probably needs no introduction in our profession; he has been an important practitioner for a couple of decades now, appreciated globally for his rich, non-linear and adventurous design approach. Initially, his education was more in the direction of botany. He later shifted to landscape architecture by studying in Rapperswil, Switzerland. After his study […]]]> https://landezine.com/interview-with-gunther-vogt-ecology-is-invisible/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lets-talk-about-sustainability/ https://landezine.com/lets-talk-about-sustainability/#comments Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:44:24 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=101169 Today’s most urgent topic for all professional groups everywhere must be how to give our planet and its inhabitants possibilities to survive. Never before has the professional field of landscape architects shifted its goals so quickly, as we have seen only over the last few years. The focus for landscape architecture nowadays is clearly sustainability. […]]]> https://landezine.com/lets-talk-about-sustainability/feed/ 3 https://landezine.com/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/ https://landezine.com/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:29:27 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=100939 Sarah Cowles of Ruderal presents their design for the Betania Garden near Tbilisi, Georgia, which was awarded LILA 2023 Special Mention in the Garden category. We start the discussion with an update on Arsenal Oasis, another LILA-winning project from 2021 (See the presentation). For the Betania Garden, the LILA 2023 jury wrote: At first glance, […]]]> https://landezine.com/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-1/ https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-1/#comments Fri, 13 Oct 2023 08:42:09 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=100091 The production of landscape architecture projects has been in recent years outstanding, and our entire professional community has much to be proud of. But as always, there is a flip side; like in architecture or any design discipline of the globalised and speeding-up world, we are faced with a sea of sameness. Too many buildings […]]]> https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-1/feed/ 3 https://landezine.com/book-design-by-fire-by-emily-schlickman-and-brett-milligan/ https://landezine.com/book-design-by-fire-by-emily-schlickman-and-brett-milligan/#respond Wed, 20 Sep 2023 06:58:32 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=99199 Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding. Due to past and current human actions, we dwell in the age of fire – the Pyrocene – and the many challenges and climate adaptation questions it provokes. Exploring our past and current relationships with fire, this book speculates on the pyro futures yet […]]]> https://landezine.com/book-design-by-fire-by-emily-schlickman-and-brett-milligan/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/claude-cormier-1960-2023/ https://landezine.com/claude-cormier-1960-2023/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:59:24 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=99133 It is with sadness that we learned about the passing of renowned Canadian landscape architect Claude Cormier. In 1995, he established Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagistes in Montreal and, in nearly three decades, received a plethora of awards for his work, both in Canada and internationally. At Landezine, we featured a selection of projects by his […]]]> https://landezine.com/claude-cormier-1960-2023/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/biourbanism-cities-as-nature-a-resilience-model-for-anthromes-adrian-mcgregor/ https://landezine.com/biourbanism-cities-as-nature-a-resilience-model-for-anthromes-adrian-mcgregor/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:42:26 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=98729 It is exciting to read “Blue Skies”, the new novel by T.C.Boyle, and at the same time to dedicate oneself to the opulent work of Adrian McGregor. While Boyle’s protagonists in Florida and California are at the mercy of the manifold violent effects of climate change and the reader abandons all hope after reading, the […]]]> https://landezine.com/biourbanism-cities-as-nature-a-resilience-model-for-anthromes-adrian-mcgregor/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-cute-the-bad-and-the-ugly-on-urban-biodiversity-and-ecological-aesthetics/ https://landezine.com/the-cute-the-bad-and-the-ugly-on-urban-biodiversity-and-ecological-aesthetics/#comments Thu, 31 Aug 2023 09:40:59 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=97784 Urban biodiversity? Yes, please! Nevertheless … … Due to the transitional phase of our understanding of nature in the light of the Anthropocene, there are still some important notions, contradictions and misunderstandings that need to be addressed. To do so, we will operate with terms like nature, ecology, biodiversity, landscape, and aesthetics, and we’ll focus […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-cute-the-bad-and-the-ugly-on-urban-biodiversity-and-ecological-aesthetics/feed/ 7 https://landezine.com/the-paradigm-shift-and-spaces-of-meaning/ https://landezine.com/the-paradigm-shift-and-spaces-of-meaning/#respond Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:47:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=96155 »Paradigm shift« has been, for at least a decade now, one of the most used phrases in landscape architecture. We use it mainly to address the need to focus on design with natural processes in mind. This is important as it concerns our core values, attitude towards nature, the understanding of natural processes and the […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-paradigm-shift-and-spaces-of-meaning/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/climate-activists-sabotage-golf-courses-in-spain-due-to-water-consumption/ https://landezine.com/climate-activists-sabotage-golf-courses-in-spain-due-to-water-consumption/#respond Wed, 05 Jul 2023 09:16:42 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=96360 Climate activists group Extinction Rebellion (XR) sabotaged multiple golf courses around Spain. Spain is currently facing a severe drought while the golf courses are still being irrigated. According to XR, Spanish golf courses use more water than Madrid and Barcelona together. They planted some shrubs and perennials directly into the golf course and set a […]]]> https://landezine.com/climate-activists-sabotage-golf-courses-in-spain-due-to-water-consumption/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/artificial-intelligence-generative-design-and-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/artificial-intelligence-generative-design-and-landscape-architecture/#respond Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:38:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=96055 The AI services embedded in tools for creative profiles are developing so rapidly that this article will definitely be outdated by 6 pm tomorrow. Last year we featured a piece on Midjourney and similar platforms, and it already reads like Grandpas discussing ‘the internets’ back in the 90s. I suppose enchantment by civilisation’s technological advances […]]]> https://landezine.com/artificial-intelligence-generative-design-and-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/alvar-aalto-nature-as-a-scale/ https://landezine.com/alvar-aalto-nature-as-a-scale/#respond Tue, 30 May 2023 11:29:10 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=94263 Alvar Aalto, one of the most important architects of modernism, was born 125 years ago. He grew up in Jyväskylä in central Finland. The opening of the Aalto2 museum hub occurred on 27 May as the highlight of the anniversary year. It combines two Alvar Aalto-designed edifices, the Museum of Central Finland (1956-61, 1991) and […]]]> https://landezine.com/alvar-aalto-nature-as-a-scale/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lila-honour-award-2022-gilles-clement/ https://landezine.com/lila-honour-award-2022-gilles-clement/#respond Mon, 08 May 2023 11:27:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=92671 We are thrilled to share with you the interview with LILA 2022 Honour Award winner Gilles Clément. The interview was conducted in Paris in November 2022 by Zaš Brezar and Joost Emmerik. The editors wrote in the award statement: Gilles Clément (1943) is a French landscape architect or better ‘paysagiste’, having a more garden design-related […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-honour-award-2022-gilles-clement/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/interview-leon-van-geest-rotterdam-rooftop-days/ https://landezine.com/interview-leon-van-geest-rotterdam-rooftop-days/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:05:41 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=83410 Rotterdam Rooftop Days (Rotterdamse Dakendagen) is an annual festival that promotes rooftop living and emphasises the potential of roofs in mitigating issues of public space, empowering communities, reducing urban heat, increasing urban biodiversity, urban food production etc. It features Knowledge Day, Rotterdam Rooftop Walk, various cultural events and, most importantly, establishes a network of permanently […]]]> https://landezine.com/interview-leon-van-geest-rotterdam-rooftop-days/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/using-artificial-intelligence-in-your-design-process/ https://landezine.com/using-artificial-intelligence-in-your-design-process/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:26:05 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=80770 Zaš Brezar on AI and the design process in the landscape architecture profession. ]]> https://landezine.com/using-artificial-intelligence-in-your-design-process/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/river-aire-in-process-a-visual-and-written-critique-by-rhys-williams/ https://landezine.com/river-aire-in-process-a-visual-and-written-critique-by-rhys-williams/#respond Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:23:08 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=80299 Rhys Williams is a lecturer at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, The University of Edinburgh, UK

website: www.seenotherwise.me]]> https://landezine.com/river-aire-in-process-a-visual-and-written-critique-by-rhys-williams/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/dr-stephan-brenneisen-living-roofs-biodiversity-and-water-retention-by-design-measures/ https://landezine.com/dr-stephan-brenneisen-living-roofs-biodiversity-and-water-retention-by-design-measures/#respond Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:12:33 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=80260 Dr. Stephan Brenneisen from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences has been researching urban biodiversity and roofs for over 25 years. In a video presentation, he talks about his findings. We asked him specifically to speak about what to keep in mind when designing biodiverse roofs. What can landscape architects learn from his extensive experience, […]]]> https://landezine.com/dr-stephan-brenneisen-living-roofs-biodiversity-and-water-retention-by-design-measures/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-enchanting-secrecy-and-liberating-uselessness-of-roofs/ https://landezine.com/the-enchanting-secrecy-and-liberating-uselessness-of-roofs/#respond Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:55:32 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79948 In this essay, Zaš Brezar writes about the role of urban roofs in our collective memory. Illustrating the meaning of roofs through a selection of cultural references from films and music. The article is a part of Living Roofs focus on Landezine that is going on in October and November 2022.]]> https://landezine.com/the-enchanting-secrecy-and-liberating-uselessness-of-roofs/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lila-2021-sarah-cowles-of-ruderal-presents-their-winning-project/ https://landezine.com/lila-2021-sarah-cowles-of-ruderal-presents-their-winning-project/#respond Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:45:39 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=66728 Arsenal Oasis is a unique project located in Tbilisi Georgia. It was designed for the Tbilisi Architecture Biennale by an urban design and research studio Ruderal. In this video, the designer Sarah Cowles explains the forces and circumstances that shaped the project. The LILA 2021 jury wrote: Arsenal Oasis is an experimental project that deals […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-2021-sarah-cowles-of-ruderal-presents-their-winning-project/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/liam-young-unknown-fields/ https://landezine.com/liam-young-unknown-fields/#respond Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:23:08 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=44668 Liam Young is together with Kate Davies running the Unknown Fields project. They travel around the world and explore landscapes behind objects we used on a daily basis: materials for our phones, fabrics for clothes, lithium for batteries … We caught Liam in Ljubljana, where he was narrating Unknown Fields film live.  ]]> https://landezine.com/liam-young-unknown-fields/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/river-restoration-landscape-between-the-ecology-and-aesthetics/ https://landezine.com/river-restoration-landscape-between-the-ecology-and-aesthetics/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:02:56 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=43847 Katarina Bajc is a landscape architect, currently working as a researcher at HafenCity University in Hamburg.]]> https://landezine.com/river-restoration-landscape-between-the-ecology-and-aesthetics/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/ana-kucan-versailles-lespace-infini/ https://landezine.com/ana-kucan-versailles-lespace-infini/#respond Sun, 08 Oct 2017 16:50:10 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=39061 Photographs have been taken at the gardens of Versailles, on February 2015. They accompany the Slovenian translation of the tiny but marvellous book Portret srečnega človeka - André le Nôtre 1613–1700 (Portrait d'un home heureux - André le Nôtre 1613–1700), translated from French by Zoja Skušek, *cf., 2016, written by a renown French author Érik Orsenna, who, among other things, for five years presided L’ École nationale supérieure du paysage at Versailles.]]> https://landezine.com/ana-kucan-versailles-lespace-infini/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/climate-changed-waters-unsettled/ https://landezine.com/climate-changed-waters-unsettled/#comments Sun, 08 Oct 2017 16:35:43 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=38949 During all the media coverage—particularly in the United States—of Hurricanes Harvey (Category 4, 17 August-1 September), Irma (Category 5, 30 August-12 September), Jose (Category 4, 5-22 September) and Maria (Category 5, 16-30 September), the flooding and subsequent trail of destruction in Houston and southeast Texas, South Florida and the Caribbean, there was ceaseless talk of […]]]> https://landezine.com/climate-changed-waters-unsettled/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/lecture-klaske-havik-reading-and-writing-architecture-landezine-live/ https://landezine.com/lecture-klaske-havik-reading-and-writing-architecture-landezine-live/#respond Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:50:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79730 Klaske Havik is associate professor of Architecture, Methods&Analysis at Delft University of Technology. She has developed a distinct research approach relating questions about the use, experience and imagination of place, to literary language. Her book Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture (2014) proposes a literary approach to architecture, landscape and urbanism, introducing the three notions […]]]> https://landezine.com/lecture-klaske-havik-reading-and-writing-architecture-landezine-live/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/green-infrastructure-and-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/green-infrastructure-and-landscape-architecture/#respond Tue, 30 May 2017 10:45:01 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=37207 More and more, experts worldwide recommend „GI“ as the best remedy for all kinds of unwelcome side-effects related to current changes in the environment such as climate change, agricultural revolution, urban transformation and so on. Within the strategy “Europe 2020”, the EU for example wants to enhance Europe’s natural capital1, and the board of the […]]]> https://landezine.com/green-infrastructure-and-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/ultra-ruin-marco-casagrande/ https://landezine.com/ultra-ruin-marco-casagrande/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:26:18 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=21805 Ultra-Ruin is a wooden architectural organism that is growing from the ruins of an abandoned red brick farmhouse in the meeting place of terraced farms and jungle. The weak architecture follows the principles of Open Form and is improvised on the site based on instincts reacting on the presence of jungle, ruin and local knowledge.]]> https://landezine.com/ultra-ruin-marco-casagrande/feed/ 1