https://landezine.com Landscape Architecture Platform Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:23:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://landezine.com/landscapism-in-nature-conservation/ https://landezine.com/landscapism-in-nature-conservation/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:26:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113241 Dr. Jevgeniy Bluwstein, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Bern, examines how the reductive Western view of landscapes reinforces colonization through exclusionary conservation practices, focusing on a case study of Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. Introducing the term "landscapism," meaning the "double movement of colonizing landscapes/landscaping colonies," Bluwstein offers a critical perspective, advocating for viewing landscapes through a lens of relationality.]]> https://landezine.com/landscapism-in-nature-conservation/feed/ 4 https://landezine.com/designing-for-people-with-bad-intentions/ https://landezine.com/designing-for-people-with-bad-intentions/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:42:08 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106498 The boulevard of Nice, a Christmas market in Berlin or the headquarters of a Dutch newspaper – the past decade has seen a rising number of attacks with a vehicle as a weapon. Following these attacks, city officials started to look differently at their public space. How do we keep our public spaces safe and […]]]> https://landezine.com/designing-for-people-with-bad-intentions/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/ https://landezine.com/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:00:08 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112035 Planet City is a worldbuilding project by Liam Young, envisioned as a multilayered city, occupying as little as 0,02 percent of Earth's surface yet hosting all of the human population. Planet City is testing the Half-Earth idea by Edward O. Wilson, where we put aside half of the planet, to keep biodiversity. We spoke with Liam Young about the idea and the exhibition he curates, Visions of Planet City.]]> https://landezine.com/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/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/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-trees-and-beasts-or-how-ideas-of-nature-shape-our-spaces/ https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-trees-and-beasts-or-how-ideas-of-nature-shape-our-spaces/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:07:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108627 “Excerpts from a project on Trees and Beasts” Denise Hoffman Brandt© Denise Hoffman What do we actually mean when we talk about nature? As a professor in a discipline that since the early 1970s has, mostly, claimed to practice “design with nature”—referencing Ian McHarg’s book (1969) of that title—that’s a question I have often asked. […]]]> https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-trees-and-beasts-or-how-ideas-of-nature-shape-our-spaces/feed/ 5 https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-ethics-and-design-with-nature-debunking-ian-mcharg/ https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-ethics-and-design-with-nature-debunking-ian-mcharg/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:06:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108472 In the conversation with the landscape architecture professor, artist and writer Denise Hoffman Brandt*, we speak about the morality issues attached to “doing good” while debunking Ian McHarg’s problematic position in Design with Nature. In the conversation, Brandt points out how our assumptions about nature shape our actions, why stewardship is problematic and what landscape […]]]> https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-ethics-and-design-with-nature-debunking-ian-mcharg/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lydia-kallipoliti-histories-of-ecological-design/ https://landezine.com/lydia-kallipoliti-histories-of-ecological-design/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:06:06 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=107875 In the talk, Lydia Kallipoliti* – #architect #educator #researcher #thinker – presents her newly published book Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia, followed by a Q&A where we talk about the intentions of writing the book, about how the “waste speaks of the incomplete perception of the World”, the psychological profile of ecological designers […]]]> https://landezine.com/lydia-kallipoliti-histories-of-ecological-design/feed/ 2 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/palimpsestous-landscapes-post-industrial-parks/ https://landezine.com/palimpsestous-landscapes-post-industrial-parks/#comments Fri, 03 May 2024 10:52:11 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106504 A post-industrial park is typically a sexy landmark, easy to make a story of, photogenic, and a palimpsest in itself. It presents a victory of public use over the private and industrial by opening previously closed-off spaces. A post-industrial park offers some crucial topics of remediation, adaptive reuse, and social integration, among others. For a […]]]> https://landezine.com/palimpsestous-landscapes-post-industrial-parks/feed/ 2 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/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/ https://landezine.com/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/#comments Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:40:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104001 HPO is an art and event-architecture group from Ferrara. Their work has been, among other venues, presented at Milan Design Week and 18. Venice Biennale. In the interview, we discuss the marginal position, DIY, incomplete architecture and the importance of play.]]> https://landezine.com/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/ https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/#respond Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:49:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103907 Landezine talks to Andre Dekker, who, together with Ruud Reutelingsperger, Lieven Poutsma and Geert van de Camp, forms a public art collective Observatorium. In the video, Dekker gives a 30-minute-long presentation of some of Observatorium’s most recent and most important works. Their artworks traverse the realms of urban planning, landscape design, architectural innovation, and artistic […]]]> https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/tim-waterman-on-astronauts-lsd-and-landscape-architecture-lecture-qa/ https://landezine.com/tim-waterman-on-astronauts-lsd-and-landscape-architecture-lecture-qa/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:22:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104366 Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory and Inter-Programme Collaboration Director at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He is Chair of the Landscape Research Group (LRG), a Non-Executive Director of the digital arts collective Furtherfield, and an advisor to the Centre for Landscape Democracy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is also […]]]> https://landezine.com/tim-waterman-on-astronauts-lsd-and-landscape-architecture-lecture-qa/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lila-2023-lisa-diedrich-on-aesthetics-of-the-transitory-and-operating-as-a-radicant/ https://landezine.com/lila-2023-lisa-diedrich-on-aesthetics-of-the-transitory-and-operating-as-a-radicant/#respond Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:13:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103230 In this interview, Zaš Brezar talks to Prof. Dr. Lisa Diedrich, the winner of LILA 2023 Honour Award. She speaks about her professional development throughout the years and specifically about being a ‘straddler’ between professional practice and academia. She references several books and projects that inspire her as a landscape architect, architect, journalist and especially […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-2023-lisa-diedrich-on-aesthetics-of-the-transitory-and-operating-as-a-radicant/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/ https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:03:39 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=102644 Landezine met with Taktyk at the XII Barcelona International Landscape Biennial in November 2023, at the same place where we made the first interview, seven years ago. Taktyk’s work is a collage of collaborations showing sensitivity to the site, tackling its most vulnerable spots. Sébastien Penfornis and Thierry Kandjee seek through prospective visions, on-site works […]]]> https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/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/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/ https://landezine.com/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:29:27 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=100939 Sarah Cowles of Ruderal presents their design for the Betania Garden near Tbilisi, Georgia, which was awarded LILA 2023 Special Mention in the Garden category. We start the discussion with an update on Arsenal Oasis, another LILA-winning project from 2021 (See the presentation). For the Betania Garden, the LILA 2023 jury wrote: At first glance, […]]]> https://landezine.com/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/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/lila-honour-award-2022-gilles-clement/ https://landezine.com/lila-honour-award-2022-gilles-clement/#respond Mon, 08 May 2023 11:27:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=92671 We are thrilled to share with you the interview with LILA 2022 Honour Award winner Gilles Clément. The interview was conducted in Paris in November 2022 by Zaš Brezar and Joost Emmerik. The editors wrote in the award statement: Gilles Clément (1943) is a French landscape architect or better ‘paysagiste’, having a more garden design-related […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-honour-award-2022-gilles-clement/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/dr-stephan-brenneisen-living-roofs-biodiversity-and-water-retention-by-design-measures/ https://landezine.com/dr-stephan-brenneisen-living-roofs-biodiversity-and-water-retention-by-design-measures/#respond Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:12:33 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=80260 Dr. Stephan Brenneisen from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences has been researching urban biodiversity and roofs for over 25 years. In a video presentation, he talks about his findings. We asked him specifically to speak about what to keep in mind when designing biodiverse roofs. What can landscape architects learn from his extensive experience, […]]]> https://landezine.com/dr-stephan-brenneisen-living-roofs-biodiversity-and-water-retention-by-design-measures/feed/ 0 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/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/liam-young-unknown-fields/ https://landezine.com/liam-young-unknown-fields/#respond Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:23:08 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=44668 Liam Young is together with Kate Davies running the Unknown Fields project. They travel around the world and explore landscapes behind objects we used on a daily basis: materials for our phones, fabrics for clothes, lithium for batteries … We caught Liam in Ljubljana, where he was narrating Unknown Fields film live.  ]]> https://landezine.com/liam-young-unknown-fields/feed/ 0 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/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