https://landezine.com Landscape Architecture Platform Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:17:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://landezine.com/shaping-discourse-reflections-on-the-isup-symposium-and-the-value-of-professional-symposia/ https://landezine.com/shaping-discourse-reflections-on-the-isup-symposium-and-the-value-of-professional-symposia/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:52:22 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113426 The 4th Symposium of the Istituto di Studi Urbani e del Paesaggio (ISUP), titled Landscape As Architecture, took place in Mendrisio, Switzerland, from November 13 to 15, 2024. Previous editions in the series explored themes of Climate Urbanism, Scale, and Density. Out of over 250 submissions, the curators, Jonathan Sergison, João Nunes, and João Gomes […]]]> https://landezine.com/shaping-discourse-reflections-on-the-isup-symposium-and-the-value-of-professional-symposia/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/book-tips-gary-hilderbrand/ https://landezine.com/book-tips-gary-hilderbrand/#respond Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:47:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111820 We asked Gary Hilderbrand (Reed Hilderbrand, Harvard GSD) to suggest three books that are relevant to landscape architects and should be more known in the profession. Here is his proposal: _ 1. The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture by Emanuele Coccia / Polity, 2018 This is a book that you just have to […]]]> https://landezine.com/book-tips-gary-hilderbrand/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/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/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/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/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/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/surfacedesign-material-landscapes/ https://landezine.com/surfacedesign-material-landscapes/#respond Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:42:39 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=72946 SURFACEDESIGN Material Landscapes James A. Lord, Roderick Wyllie, Geoff di Girolamo; foreword by Alan Maskin; conversation with Anita Berrizbeitia]]> https://landezine.com/surfacedesign-material-landscapes/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/250-things-a-landscape-architect-should-know-by-b-cannon-ivers/ https://landezine.com/250-things-a-landscape-architect-should-know-by-b-cannon-ivers/#respond Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:20:45 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=71214 Title: 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know / Author: B. Cannon Ivers, MLA, Harvard GSD, USA, Director, LDA Design, London, UK / Copyright year: 2021 / Pages: 512 / Language: English / Coloured Illustrations: 280 / Published: 25 Oct 2021 / ISBN: 9783035623369 / Hardback Published: 08 Nov 2021 / ISBN: 9783035623352 / ]]> https://landezine.com/250-things-a-landscape-architect-should-know-by-b-cannon-ivers/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/the-inaugural-oberlander-prize-winner-is-julie-bargmann/ https://landezine.com/the-inaugural-oberlander-prize-winner-is-julie-bargmann/#respond Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:13:15 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=67539 Main photo: Julie Bargmann, 2021 Oberlander Prize laureate. Photo ©Barrett Doherty courtresy The Cultural Landscape Foundation]]> https://landezine.com/the-inaugural-oberlander-prize-winner-is-julie-bargmann/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/designing-little-island-interview-with-signe-nielsen-of-mnla/ https://landezine.com/designing-little-island-interview-with-signe-nielsen-of-mnla/#respond Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:15:19 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=64031 I recently had a wonderful opportunity to talk to Signe Nielsen of MNLA about the many challenges and joys of designing the landscape for Little Island – an entirely constructed landscape that opened less than a month ago in NYC. We will soon publish more on the project, but first, you are kindly invited to […]]]> https://landezine.com/designing-little-island-interview-with-signe-nielsen-of-mnla/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/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/landezine-live-september-29-ljubljana-slovenia/ https://landezine.com/landezine-live-september-29-ljubljana-slovenia/#comments Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:57:49 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=38777 Landezine LIVE will take place in the Old Power Station in Ljubljana, Slovenia on September 29th at 10am.]]> https://landezine.com/landezine-live-september-29-ljubljana-slovenia/feed/ 2 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/estudi-marti-franch-winner-of-landezine-international-landscape-award/ https://landezine.com/estudi-marti-franch-winner-of-landezine-international-landscape-award/#respond Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:28:32 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=34731 LILA – Landezine International Landscape Award 2016 goes to the Catalonian office EMF – Estudi Marti Franch. EMF was selected by the 5-member jury out of 76 offices. Visitors of Landezine awarded Felixx, a young Dutch landscape architecture office with LILA People’s Choice Award. Congratulations! The Award ceremony will take place on January 20th in Ljubljana, […]]]> https://landezine.com/estudi-marti-franch-winner-of-landezine-international-landscape-award/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