Category: landscape urbanism
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Thickened Waterfront from AALU
An email from Jorge Ayala from the AALU shows off some recent Landscape Urbanism work, in this case an academic workshop with a focus on designing a Contemporary Garden in Xi’an, China. I’ve included the full text from Jorge, and some of the images of the project that were sent. Thickened WaterfrontAA Landscape Urbanism Garden…
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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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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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Terrain Vague
Via Death by Architecture, a recent call for papers for Terrain Vague: The Interstitial as Site, Concept, Intervention features an opportunity for work to be included in: “This collection of essays will focus on terrain vague—marginal, semi-abandoned space in or along the edge of the city—as abstract concept, specific locale, and subject of literary, architectural,…
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Fringe Urbanism
Not a variation of my favorite new FOX series, but a lecture happening tomorrow at University of Oregon Department of Architecture in Portland at the White Stag. FRINGE URBANISMUNTAPPED POTENTIAL FOR SUSTAINABLE SUBURBSLecture by Nico Larco, Asst. Professor, UO Department of Architecture Noon, Wednesday January 20 White Stag Building, 70 NW Couch, Event Roomwith Live…
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Urban/Rural – Helvetia Part 1
Another recent piece ‘Pushing the Limits’ comes via the ‘Slow Issue’ of GOOD magazine and looks at the anti-growth policies of which we are well known regionally. It’s a good piece about the current ‘dialogue’ about urban and rural reserves and relevant to the work we are doing for the ‘Urban Edge’ class. :: image…
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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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City Limits: Distance from the Center
As a follow-up to the exploration of the introduction to David Oates’ book City Limits I wanted to write a bit about the first essay in the book, entitled ‘Distance from the Center’, which seems appropriate as a quick take on this thing we call the Urban Growth Boundary as well as the dynamic of…
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Representing Motion
Picking up on the thread of Transect Representation, I recalled that Urban Tick had recently posted a graphic from ‘The View from the Road’ (Kevin Lynch, Donald Appleyard et al., MIT press, Boston, 1964) – one that I hadn’t previously heard of and sounds somewhat applicable to the idea of representational strategies for movement. ::…
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Reading List: Kerb 17: Is LA Dead?
“Landscape architecture has not evolved the necessary operational agility to manage the growing complexity of regional urban infrastructures… Contemporary landscape architecture should seek to generate new performative models of infrastructural form that renew the biophysical environment while facilitating a regional understanding of market forces. Landscape architecture has failed to embrace the technical complexity of infrastructural…