Category: books
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BIM and Landscape Architecture
As Building Information Modeling (BIM) gains in market share in architecture and related disciplines, there will be a need for landscape architects to adopt this technology in order to maintain the level of service for their clients. This shift is not just a new technology to adopt but a paradigm shift in thinking, designing, and…
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prss release
Much talk lately of the changing nature of architecture blogging (sort of) and a recent reference reminded me of prss release, and inventive aggregator of sources in a PDF format… sort of quasi blog + magazine in one… Some words below from the editors: :: image via prss release “We are proud to announce prss…
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Reading List: Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability
I’m in the midst of reading a group of new books recently released that I picked up online. The first Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability, edited by William S. Saunders, is the sixth in a series of Harvard Design Magazine Readers (published by Univ. of Minnesota). This entry in the series specifically focusing on…
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80/20 for Sustainability
A recent post from anArchitecture mentioned the Pareto Principle – also known as the 80/20 rule. The idea, as explained on the site: “The 80/20 rule asserts that approximately 80% of the effects generated by any large system are caused by 20% of the variables in that system. The 80/20 rule is observed in all…
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Manual for the Machinic Landscape
I’ve been looking for this book for a while now – anyone know of a source for a copy? In lieu of the actual book, I guess I will be content for now with a recent review, via Archinect: :: image via ArchinectLandscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic LandscapeBy Mohsen Mostafavi (Author), Ciro Najle…
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Veg.itecture #24
I decided to clean out the archives of great vegetated architecture – partly from necessity and partly spurred a special Architectural Element feature on Vertical Gardens from A Daily Dose of Architecture and by the recent coverage in the NY Times Design & Living 2008 special mag, featuring the likes of Ann Demeulemeester’s vegetated Seoul…
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Reading List: Inspired by Nature: Plants
This past weekend, I swung by my local mecca of all things printed word, and as always was both struck and disappointed with the selection of architectural titles. One they had in the newish ‘green building’ section at Powell’s was ‘Inspired by Nature – Plants: The Building Botany Connection’ by Bahamon, Perez, and Compello (published…
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City Farmer News
City Farmer and it’s ‘Urban Agriculture Notes’ has been around offering great urban agriculture links from Vancouver, BC for a number of years at their old, no-frills site and their demonstration garden. I was pleased to visit recently and see the link to the new blog-ish City Farmer News (added to the BlogCheck) site and…
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Reading List: (AD) Landscape Architecture: Site/Non-Site
This fusion of magazine sized pamphlet/paperback book from Architecutural Design is entitled ‘Landscape Architecture: Site/Non-Site’ (Wiley, May 2007), and is a really quality investigation into some of the very themes in which I hold dear. I loaned this out and had not had an opportunity to delve into it until now and I was pleased…
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History: Learn, Plan + Re-plan
Ecological planning is not new. In fact elements of the ideaology we often speak about with such fresh energy has been part of the dialogue for some time – but it seems to be constantly reinventied in new and old ways around the world. This post is on the heels of recent projects by OMA…