Category: landscape architecture
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More on Digital Media
A follow-up to the interactive interview on Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture Bradley Cantrell sent me a couple of links to the work he and others are doing in the digitial realm down at Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. :: image via reactscape The first is his own blog, reactscape.visual-logic.com,…
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Metropolitan Field Guide
University of Oregon landscape architecture graduate and now Seattle resident Kelly Brenner has an interesting blog called ‘The Metropolitan Field Guide’ which focuses on design for urban wildlife habitat. As a self-professed generalist which tends to take me on ADHD-addled tours of pretty much everything, I’m a big fan of folks who aim to provide…
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Field Ops is Hot (Still)
In addition to being named on the top 10 list in Fast Company’s Most Innovative Architecture Companies (the only LA on the list) and the major success of the High Line, a couple of recent wins have pushed James Corner Field Operations fully from the realm of the theoretical provocateur, to competition all-star to full-fledged…
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New Blogs
It’s been ages since I’ve posted about some of the recent blog additions. To maintain my sanity, I’ve decided that for each new blog I add to my personal RSS feed, I take another off (the total hovers around 120 or so, which is a lot of input). I keep all of them in the…
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Drawing the Land
A unique opportunity to tap into one of the most creative minds in modern landscape architecture representation, Brad Cantrell, via an online webinar/interview on Land8Lounge conducted by Drew Maifield of The LANDWIRE. Cantrell is author of Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture (Published by Wiley, 2010) which promises to be the most complete resource of landscape…
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On Landscape Criticism 3
The final essay ‘On Criticism 6: On Bias in Criticism’ comes from Stephen Rustow and completes what has been a really fun, if quick, review of the status and possibilities of landscape criticism inspired by Urban Omnibus. The concept of criticism is laid out as a ‘revealing’ to the larger public what the intentions and…
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On Landscape Criticism 2
Following up on the previous review of editorials from Urban Omnibus in the post ‘On Landscape Criticism‘, I wanted to continue with the next three essays. The continuation of thinking delves into some more specifics. In ‘On Criticism 4’, William Bostick warns of the perils of the broad focus in terms of minimizing the impact…
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On Landscape Criticism
A great ongoing series of posts on Urban Omnibus delves into one of those topics that seems missing from the dialogue in landscape architecture — that of real criticism regarding the profession. I don’t mean the type of mindless carping that happens based on polarities of viewpoint or in response to the profession being declared…
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I like the sentiment…
…but something about the tone of this article ‘Landscaping as a Seductive First Step’, from the NY Times Blog is a bit off-putting. Not sure if it was the reference to ‘landscaping’ in the title (it’s kind of nit-picky but a gross simplification), the reference to Weiss/Manfredi as landscape architects (no disrespect meant at, I…
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Reading List: Subnature
Another book that engaged me on my hiatus from blogging is one I picked up on somewhat of a whim as it looked like a fascinating read. I wasn’t disappointed, as ‘Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments” by David Gissen, quickly became impossible to put down. The reason? It really tackles some interesting terrain that is definitely…