https://landezine.com Landscape Architecture Platform Tue, 22 Oct 2024 12:24:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 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/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/circles-disks-and-rings/ https://landezine.com/circles-disks-and-rings/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:36:25 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=105586 Observed as a recurring phenomenon in nature and universally interpreted, the circle stands as a fundamental geometric shape. It symbolizes various concepts such as infinity and unity, among others. In constructed environments, the focal or central point of a circle can be represented by a tree as the axis mundi, a fire pit or an […]]]> https://landezine.com/circles-disks-and-rings/feed/ 1 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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/design-for-forest/ https://landezine.com/design-for-forest/#respond Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:52:39 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=67837 Every landscape architect should be well-aware of the role of forests both in environmental and social sense. Forests are dark and seem wild, so clearings feel liberating and secure. Visibility is low which makes forest misterious or even terrifying. One can get lost pretty quickly, so paths are of paramount importance. For landscape architects forests may be attractive as there are more tools for playing with the natural light and volumes.]]> https://landezine.com/design-for-forest/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/a-great-tree-has-fallen/ https://landezine.com/a-great-tree-has-fallen/#respond Sat, 22 May 2021 15:13:56 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=62505 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, 1921 - 2021]]> https://landezine.com/a-great-tree-has-fallen/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/thoughts-on-the-work-by-michael-van-gessel/ https://landezine.com/thoughts-on-the-work-by-michael-van-gessel/#comments Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:51:55 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=48126 The 2019 LILA Honour Award ceremony took place at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam on Saturday, November 2nd, 2019. Editor-in-chief of Landezine, Zaš Brezar, presented the award statement and invited three experts to speak about the work of the award winner Michael van Gessel: Marc Treib, Lisa Diedrich and Frits Palmboom. After the presentation of the award, Van Gessel gave his recent paintings to the speakers present at the event.]]> https://landezine.com/thoughts-on-the-work-by-michael-van-gessel/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/fourth-dimension-of-space/ https://landezine.com/fourth-dimension-of-space/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:02:00 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=44113 Matej Blenkuš, MSc (Aalto), is Associate Professor and Dean of Faculty for Architecture, University of Ljubljana ]]> https://landezine.com/fourth-dimension-of-space/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/do-roundabouts-need-landscape-architects/ https://landezine.com/do-roundabouts-need-landscape-architects/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:03:11 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=43856 main image: © Nación Rotonda In the past decade or two, roundabouts have become a wide-spread phenomenon in Europe, bringing with them a series of issues, above all related to their number, location, and the ornamental structures placed in their centres.]]> https://landezine.com/do-roundabouts-need-landscape-architects/feed/ 1 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/california-is-burning-rethinking-the-wildland-suburban-interface/ https://landezine.com/california-is-burning-rethinking-the-wildland-suburban-interface/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2018 08:19:19 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=39816 Title image: Smoke blows out of the burning palm trees as brush threatens homes in Ventura County. (© Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, 5 December 2017)

Kelly Shannon is a professor of urbanism at KU Leuven's Department of Architecture.

Donielle Kaufman is a free-lance landscape architect based in L.A.]]> https://landezine.com/california-is-burning-rethinking-the-wildland-suburban-interface/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/upcoming-landezine-live-lecture-series-readwrite-landscape-february-13/ https://landezine.com/upcoming-landezine-live-lecture-series-readwrite-landscape-february-13/#comments Thu, 28 Dec 2017 11:07:22 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=39763 The third event of the Landezine LIVE lecture series, titled ‘Read/Write Landscape’ will explore the architecture of imaginative and physical landscapes with the help from renowned international experts; Georges Descombes (Geneva) – landscape architect, Klaske Havik (Amsterdam) – architect – editor – professor, Pavel Gantar (Ljubljana) – urban sociologist and Chris Eckman (Ljubljana – Seattle) […]]]> https://landezine.com/upcoming-landezine-live-lecture-series-readwrite-landscape-february-13/feed/ 2 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/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/wanted-visionary-projects-to-realign-trump-policy/ https://landezine.com/wanted-visionary-projects-to-realign-trump-policy/#respond Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:33:38 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=36994 photo: Stephanie Keith, Women hold a prayer ceremony on Backwater Bridge during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access Pipeline]]> https://landezine.com/wanted-visionary-projects-to-realign-trump-policy/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/prati-commons-lost-in-translation/ https://landezine.com/prati-commons-lost-in-translation/#respond Mon, 13 Mar 2017 08:08:07 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=36155 main photo by Steven Clifford Cohen]]> https://landezine.com/prati-commons-lost-in-translation/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-landscape-architecture-of-lawrence-halprin/ https://landezine.com/the-landscape-architecture-of-lawrence-halprin/#respond Tue, 06 Dec 2016 14:18:54 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=35054 On 5th of November, travelling exhibition about the life and work of Lawrence Halprin opened at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. More than 50 newly commissioned photos of Halprin’s projects are on display along with original drawings and artefacts ...]]> https://landezine.com/the-landscape-architecture-of-lawrence-halprin/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/waf-landscape-issues-underrepresented/ https://landezine.com/waf-landscape-issues-underrepresented/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2016 09:43:08 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=34956 World Architecture Festival 2016 in Berlin presented the World Building of the Year 2016 to The National Museum - Dialogue Centre Przełomy in Szczecin, Poland by Robert Konieczny- KWK Promes. Kopupaka Reserve from Isthmus Group, Auckland, New Zealand was awarded landscape of the year ...]]> https://landezine.com/waf-landscape-issues-underrepresented/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/urban-climadapp-for-amsterdam/ https://landezine.com/urban-climadapp-for-amsterdam/#respond Sat, 22 Oct 2016 19:46:01 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=34401 How can we motivate house dwellers and public space designers to apply appropriate adaptation measures in the city? What can help people to take first steps toward implementation? Our assumption was that a new smartphone app could be useful.]]> https://landezine.com/urban-climadapp-for-amsterdam/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/rosa-barba-international-landscape-prize-2016/ https://landezine.com/rosa-barba-international-landscape-prize-2016/#respond Fri, 07 Oct 2016 10:47:13 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=34307 Hargreaves Associates' Queen Elisabeth Olympic Park in London won the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize at the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona on the 30th of September 2016. The project was selected from a shortlist of ten finalists. The Public Opinion Prize was voted by the attendees …]]> https://landezine.com/rosa-barba-international-landscape-prize-2016/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/janus-face-of-l-a-s-public-space/ https://landezine.com/janus-face-of-l-a-s-public-space/#respond Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:53:52 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=33603 There is a paradigm shift in Los Angeles’ public space, integrating the most contemporary social and cultural life with nature and the urban fabric. ]]> https://landezine.com/janus-face-of-l-a-s-public-space/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-foundation-summit-declaration-ian-mcharg/ https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-foundation-summit-declaration-ian-mcharg/#respond Thu, 04 Aug 2016 14:13:31 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=33370 In June, the US Landscape Architecture Foundation convened a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania entitled “The New Declaration: A Summit on Landscape Architecture”. ]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-foundation-summit-declaration-ian-mcharg/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/a-flying-visit-to-new-york-city/ https://landezine.com/a-flying-visit-to-new-york-city/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2016 06:52:34 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=33204 Governors Island, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Times Square and High Line - A few of New York's Landscape Architecture Flagship Projects - A Site Visit ]]> https://landezine.com/a-flying-visit-to-new-york-city/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/nasdaq-for-the-environment-2/ https://landezine.com/nasdaq-for-the-environment-2/#respond Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:49:17 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=32912 Climate change will lead to a shift in behaviour. Monetary quantification will add value to landscapes and ecosytems. The economic incentive to sequester carbon through landscape projects will be enhanced by the ongoing global adoption and standardisation of carbon price mechanisms. Landscape architecture can harness carbon accounting and systems design thinking to enable disruption across current metropolitan planning methodologies. ]]> https://landezine.com/nasdaq-for-the-environment-2/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-floating-piers-at-lake-iseo-italy/ https://landezine.com/the-floating-piers-at-lake-iseo-italy/#respond Tue, 05 Jul 2016 21:50:48 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=32992 More than 40 years ago artist Christo developped the idea for the Floating Piers. After he found Lago d’Iseo in Northern Italy being the perfect place for this work, it went quick. More than 1.3 Million people had a striking haptic and visual experience walking on the orange Nylon tissue across the lake. ]]> https://landezine.com/the-floating-piers-at-lake-iseo-italy/feed/ 0