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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
