Category: resources
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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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Urban Ag Infographic
The previous post on the ‘branches’ of urban agriculture made me think of a recent graphic that I created for a local project with Oregon Solutions that investigated approaches to expanding the availability and reach of community gardening in Portland. Read more on the process here. While less expansive than the previous example, a vital…
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Branches: Urban Agriculture
I found an interesting and complex graphic on the many facets and interrelations of urban agriculture via the site Urban Agriculture Worldwide, which is published by David Mason and tracks his journeys investigating UA examples around the globe from 2006-2009. The site has immense amounts of information (and is frankly frustrating to navigate) so I’ve…
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Bibliophilic Mecca
As a book lover, purchasing new reading materials is always one of those things that I both relish and anguish over, as it tends to put a sizable dent in the wallet. While fiction is one thing, the the high cost of many arch and landscape related volumes is sometimes laughable when deciding which $80…
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Urban Cartography
There are some interesting links I’ve stumbled upon recently (a round-up of which is forthcoming), one worth some exploration is a site entitled Urban Cartography. The posts simply show collected imagery of a variety of informatics and other interesting mashups of data from around the globe. Not mapping in the traditional sense, these densely woven…
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On Weather
Via InfranetLab, a fascinating book that looks interesting is entitled ‘-arium: Weather + Architecture’ spawned from a research investigation at the University of Toronto. With a cursory glance, it looks to be something of the same genus (at least in overall ideology) to that of Gissen’s recent book Subnature – which provides a focus more…
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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,…