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How Algorithms Shape the Landscape

Posted in Environment on 11/30/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Is the work of artist Michael Najjar, which splices the images of landscapes with the peaks and troughs of indexes like the Dow Jones, a metaphor or a prophecy? Leading his TEDTalk with this question, Kevin Slavin, the chairman and co-founder of game development company Area/Code, demonstrates how algorithms are starting to impact our landscape at the grand scale. “The landscape was [...]

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City Landscapes, Urban Habitat

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Ecosystem Services, Technology, Urban Revitalization, Waste, Water Management on 11/30/2011 | 1 Comment »

The landfill of Kearny, New Jersey, is the site of Steven Handel’s early work restoring urban habitat. It is constructed on top of a wetland. The fill material specified for landfill cover make poor soils, and the railroads, interstates, and cloverleaf interchanges work as barriers to dispersal. His work began with a question: “What can a [...]

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Best Books of 2011

Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Exhibits, Landscape Architecture, Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Renewable Energy, Smart Growth, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Wildlife on 11/23/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Last year, we only have five top books (see earlier post), but this year we’ve expanded the list. A range of great books came past our desk and any of these may be of interest to your favorite landscape architect. Here are the top ten books of 2011, along with five other notable books: Landscapes in Landscapes by Piet Oudolf (Monacelli Press, [...]

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The Next Wave of Modernism: Healing Urban Landscapes

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Smart Growth, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 11/23/2011 | 1 Comment »

“The first wave of modernism was about beauty and sensuality, but the second wave may be about confrontation – confronting the mistakes of the past,” said Brad McKee, Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine, at The Second Wave of Modernism II: Landscape Complexity and Transformation, a day-long conference organized by the Cultural Landscape Foundation at the Museum of [...]

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Rethinking Urban Renewal

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 11/23/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Landscape architects were implicated in misguided urban renewal schemes, said Thaisa Way, PhD, ASLA, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington at The Second Wave of Modernism II: Landscape Complexity and Transformation, a day-long conference organized by the Cultural Landscape Foundation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Before Jane Jacobs [...]

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The New Wave of Modern Landscapes

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Residential Design on 11/23/2011 | 1 Comment »

The Second Wave of Modernism II: Landscape Complexity and Transformation, a day-long conference organized by the Cultural Landscape Foundation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, argued that Modern landscape architects no longer start projects with the idea of a site as blank slate, ready be transformed by an artist’s vision. Now, it’s about “complexity and [...]

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Interview with Kevin Conger, CMG Landscape Architecture

Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change, Gardens, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 11/21/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Kevin Conger, ASLA, is one of the three founding partners of Conger Moss Guillard (CMG) Landscape Architecture, a San Francisco-based studio. Conger, who is president and CEO of CMG, has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, University of California at Berkeley, and Boston Architectural College. Repurposing more than 480 acres of an old [...]

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Dunham-Jones: “Underperforming Space Is an Opportunity to Retrofit”

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Smart Growth, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management, Wildlife on 11/21/2011 | Leave a Comment »

On day two of The Atlantic Magazine’s Green Intelligence forum, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Professor at Georgia Tech and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, talked about how some of the detritus of suburbia—the vacant big box stores, crumbling parking lots, dying strip malls—can be re-purposed. Today, a third of enclosed shopping malls are dead [...]

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The U.S. Needs a National Renewable Energy Standard

Posted in Policy and Regulation, Renewable Energy on 11/16/2011 | Leave a Comment »

At The Atlantic Magazine‘s Green Intelligence forum, which has become an annual event in Washington, D.C., Carol Browner, who was very recently climate change “czarina” at the White House and once head of the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.); Jim Connaughton, Constellation Energy, and former head of the Council for Environmental Quality under President George W. Bush; David Hawkins, [...]

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A Call for Strategic Interventions

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Water Management, Wildlife on 11/16/2011 | 1 Comment »

“Architecture has remained an island for too long,” stated Ronald Rietveld during a lecture at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. Rietveld founded his Amsterdam-based firm, Rietveld Landscape, along with his brother Erik, an economist and fellow in philosophy at Harvard. This detail begins to hint at Rietveld Landscape’s approach, which is collaborative and extends well beyond the boundaries of a [...]

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