Landscape+Urbanism

Category: projects

  • Materials Library: Rust

    A revisit of an old feature on L+U, investigations of materials for inspirational purposes.  For starters, one of my favorites, the rusted metal of Cor-ten, weathering steel, or whatever you’d like to call it, a durable and wonderful addition to exterior projects in it’s ability to blend with natural materials (landscaping, wood, stone) and more…

  • More Hidden Rivers – NYC

    An interesting post from Urban Omnibus from earlier in January entitled ‘Grey vs. Green: Daylighting the Saw Mill River‘ is less intriguing in design concept that in larger idea of envisioning the expression of the variety of waterways that are hidden/buried/forgotten within our urban areas.  As referenced by Eric Sanderson through  his work on the…

  • Zappata Romana

    The ease of online mapmaking leads to a democratization of the dissemination of all forms of information.  In the spirit of Greenmaps, Italian firm Urban Architecture Project presents Zappata Romana, a simple, icon-based mapping of community-run green spaces on underused and abandoned areas in Rome. Visualizza “ZAPPATA ROMANA”: community-run green areas _by studioUAP in una…

  • Black Friday

    Let’s make the shopping experience a bit more dangerous… Asphalt Spot in Tokamashi, Japan by R&Sie(n). :: images via Space Invading

  • Ecology.Agency.Urbanism

    I warn the reader that my take on the recent NOWurbanism lecture featuring Chris Reed, Randy Hester and Howard Frumkin may be skewed by a really bad cold and the influence of massive doses of cold medicine, along with spilling an entire water bottle inside my bag that literally muddied my notes into a semi-decipherable pulpy…

  • A Potential Body of Landscape Urbanism – Part 1

    My questions about identifying works of landscape urbanism has its first lead.  A reader (and fellow former North Dakotan Brook Meier – an architect now practicing in India) offered some projects worthy of explanation.  He used to work for the firm LA Dallman in Milwaukie, Wisconsin and mentioned the collective Crossroads project, which he succinctly summed up as…

  • Works of Landscape Urbanism?

    A long-standing question that seems to have arisen in recent days due to discussions on Ecological Urbanism, coupled with a reconnection to the Landscape Urbanism bibliography.  I’ve also recently rescued my book collection from storage – so have an opportunity to look specifically at some of the pertinent literature to glean what we could consider…

  • The Suburban Prelude: The City (1939)

    An interesting film, created as part of the 1939 New York World’s Fair, is ‘The City‘, an heavily anti-urban vision of the perils of the the modern city agglomeration.  Using a number of images from both the smoky and polluted industrial Pittsburgh and the crowded, frenetic cosmopolitan New York City of the 1930s, the film…

  • Landscape Performance Series

    Interesting link to the Landscape Architecture Foundation‘s new resource – the Landscape Performance Series – which is sort of an adjust to the Sustainable Sites Initiative which is “…designed to fill a critical gap in the marketplace and make the concept of “Landscape Performance” and its contribution to sustainability as well known as “Building Performance” is…

  • Reading List: Small Spaces

    A new release that arrived from Princeton Architectural Press ‘Small Scale’ advertises ‘Creative Solutions for Better City Living’ which is a lofty goal.  It immediately made me think of niche DIY magazines like Ready-Made  for people with pent up creativity just bursting with ideas if they only had some direction or money.  When I read the preliminary…