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Interview with Robert Hammond, Co-Founder of the High Line

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Real Estate Development, Sustainable Materials, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 02/08/2012 | Leave a Comment »

Robert Hammond is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Friends of the High Line, the non-profit conservancy that manages the High Line, a public park built atop an abandoned, elevated rail line on the west side of Manhattan. Hammond was awarded a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation’s [...]

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Who Protects Your Historic Landscape?

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Opportunities, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 01/25/2012 | 1 Comment »

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) is looking for nominations for its ongoing Landslide program, an annual list of “threatened and at-risk landscapes.” This year, Landslide’s theme will focus on the “visionary patrons and/or organizations and the sites they helped create,” with the goal of honoring their accomplishments yet also inspiring new philanthropists to take action. [...]

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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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The Primacy of Pathways

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Technology, Urban Design on 09/23/2011 | Leave a Comment »

At Dumbarton Oaks, Suzanne Preston Blier, a professor at Harvard University, said not all landscapes are enchanted in the ancient Yoruban city of Ife in southwestern Nigeria, but many are. Combining landscape architecture with a rich cosmological system, the Yoruban kings and Ifa priestly castes laid out Ife as a giant turtle, with criss-crossing pathways embedded with deep cultural and [...]

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National Mall Design Competition Open to All

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, National Mall, Opportunities, Public Spaces, Water Management on 09/08/2011 | 1 Comment »

The Trust for the National Mall announced the kick-off of a National Mall design competition in Washington, D.C., which will be open to established and emerging U.S. teams of landscape architects, urban designers, architects, and sustainable designers. Trust Chairman John Ackridge said the goal of the competition was to make the National Mall, which receives 25 million [...]

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Student Design Competition: Parks for the People

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Opportunities, Public Spaces, Sustainable Design on 08/17/2011 | 1 Comment »

Parks for the People, a student design competition organized by the U.S. Park Service, Van Alen Institute, National Parks Conservation Association, and financed by the National Endowment for the Arts and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, aims to “reimagine America’s most spectacular public places — its national parks — by using design as a catalyst to creatively rethink their connections to people [...]

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New Central Park Map Identifies, Plots 19,600 Trees

Posted in Forests, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces on 08/03/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Working with Edward S. Barnard, author of New York City Trees, Ken Chaya, a graphic designer and artist, has spent more than two years creating Central Park Entire, an illustrated, comprehensive tree and trail map of Central Park available either as a poster or fold-out walking map. This guide to the natural history of the one of the world’s greatest parks, [...]

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A New President’s Park South

Posted in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Security Design, Urban Design on 07/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »

Today, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) announced Rogers Marvel Architects has won a design competition for a new President’s Park South, a 52-acre historic site located between the White House grounds and the Washington Monument. Redesigning President’s Park South, which is one of the most-visited landscapes in Washington, D.C., is a challenging brief for a designer. The site, which includes Sherman Park and the Ellipse, a number of monuments, and a [...]

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E.O. Wilson’s Love Letter to Parks

Posted in Ecosystem Restoration, Gardens, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Wildlife on 04/27/2011 | 1 Comment »

E.O. Wilson, one of the world’s great biologists and a Pulitzer prize-winning author on the natural world, made a case for preserving and investing in the restoration of urban parks at the 70th anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks Park in Georgetown. Designed by renowned landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, the only woman among the founding members of ASLA, the 27-acre park has [...]

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