Category: design
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PDX Modern – Robert Rummer
Perhaps nestled within the Landscape and the Urbanism is my love for mid-century and modern architecture and design. An ongoing series will feature pics from this years Portland Modern Home Tour from March 9, 2013 – and perhaps some others. I really enjoyed the opportunity to see a true Robert Rummer house, and it’s worth…
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Principles of Ecological Landscape Design
I’ve been busy reading through the new book ‘Principles of Ecological Landscape Design‘, an interesting addition to the growing literature blending science and design in a practical sense. Author Travis Beck is a landscape architect and currently the Landscape and Gardens Project Manager at the New York Botanical Garden, and he has used his horticultural…
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Field Trip: Cal. Academy of Sciences Green Roof
As mentioned previously, got a couple of shots on the road trip last year for the California Academy of Sciences Living Roof, across the street from the DeYoung Museum. A few shots of it from afar (as we missed getting inside by a few minutes). Oh well, maybe next time.
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Happy Birthday – Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.
In honor of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr’s birthday today, April 26 (1822, so let’s call it a round 190!), I would remind folks to go out and read more about the man in the great 2011 biography ‘Genius of Place‘ by Justin Martin (Da Capo Press, 2011). Genius of Place traces Olmsted from his beginnings…
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Going viral: Blurred Borders
I’m pleased to announce that Landscape+Urbanism will be featured along with some great company as part of the Voices Going Viral Exhibition and event developed by AIANY. More information below. The AIANY Global Dialogues committee has dedicated 2012 to “uncovered connections” with the intention to investigate issues that are similarly impacting multiple regions, cultures…
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GOOD Times in Portland
The recent event for GOOD Ideas for Cities happened last week in Portland, and generated some great dialogue. I was also on one of the teams that presented. A short recap. :: custom notebooks by Scout Books “Each team was issued a challenge proposed by a local urban leader. At the event, the creative teams…
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Siftings: 01.11.12
““All great art is born of the metropolis.” – Ezra Pound :: image via NY Times A great little snapshot on urban serendipity from the NY Times that looks at the accidental ‘curation’ of spaces that the urban environment yields, such as the framed view from the subway to the Brooklyn Bridge. Perhaps the uniformity…
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Introducing THINK.urban
I am happy to announce the formation of a new organization, THINK.urban in Portland, Oregon. Along with colleagues Katrina Johnston and Allison Duncan, our group plans to promote, as our tagline mentions: “Better Design Through Applied Research.” We bring a range of experience in urban design research, landscape architecture, urban ecology, public space, and…
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Data Appeal – Making Map-Landscapes
A follow-up on new mapping tools from the author of ‘The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles’ (read a review of this great book here). Nadia Amoroso alerted me to a new endeavor called Data Appeal, which provides tools for visualization of data through mapping in order to engage people in new ways. London –…
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Purge Sculpture
Filed under ‘random’ this sculpture was spotted the previous weekend along the waterfront just north of the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. A pile of vegetated ‘cans’ with the word ‘Purge’ punched into them – alas a web search has yielded little in terms of info beyond this. Anyone have any info? UPDATE (02/12/14): Buster…