Landscape+Urbanism

  • Reading the Landscape: Terra Fluxus

    This essay, Terra Fluxus by James Corner, from the Landscape Urbanism Reader is considered one of the seminal texts in formulating landscape urbanism theory.  Obviously it has had an impact on me personally, as I used it for the name of my firm, with a respectful tip of the hat to Mr. Corner.  The concept…

  • Reading the Landscape: LU Reader broken down

    Our previous excursion into online readings was sort of disjointed, sparsely commented, and for the most part not terribly fruitful.   There was some good discussion, but I think a combination of format, content, and time constraints added to the difficulty in exploring the Landscape Urbanism Reader to the degree I would have liked to…

  • Reading List: Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA

    ‘Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA‘ published in 2011, is edited by the Infrastructure Research Initiative of SWA including Los Angeles office principals Gerdo Aquino and Ying-Yu Hung.  This is supplemented with contributions from Charles Waldheim, Julie Czerniak, Adriaan Geuze, Matthew Skjonsberg and Alexander Robinson.  While ostensibly about landscape infrastructure, this type of book is…

  • Source: Axioms for Reading the Landscape – Lewis

    Doing some readings of seminal texts for an upcoming essay/book chapter on landscape urbanism, and want to capture some of the content, at least in fragments.  ‘Source’ will be the code for snapshot of a particular essay – not a thorough review but an abstract and some specific reflections.  In this case the instructive ‘Axioms…

  • Pruitt Igoe Now

    Another good ideas competition, Pruitt Igoe Now the infamous St. Louis housing complex that was demolished in 1972 and considered one of the touchstones in the ‘death’ of modernism.  The site is typical of the towers in the park ideal most notably ascribed to public housing and derived from version of Le Corbusier’s Radiant City…

  • Greatest Grid

    An interesting competition I am ruminating on proposing for, The Greatest Grid – from the Architectural League of New York along with the Museum of the City of New York – seeks ideas related to the grid and to reflect on the role of the grid, now 200 years old, impacts and shapes New York,…

  • URBAN REALITY: Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge

    [note: the previous post for LU 72 HR Urban Action has evolved into the following, thus the update at the behest of the organizers] URBAN REALITY: Landscape Urbanism 3 Day Design Challenge invites teams to design and construct a site in response to a brief in just three days. The challenge aims to bring together…

  • New Blogs

    As I mentioned, there is a virtual explosion of blogs covering topics of landscape and urbanism… meaning my reading list at one point topped 150 sites.  As I steadily pared this down (right now I consistently read only 3 feeds along with some targeted google alerts), I found much more time to actual read books,…

  • Introducing Landscape+Urbanism V2.0

    Some significant life and professional changes in the past year has moved me away from the day to day updates to blog.  The outlet for me has always been personal, the breadth of content has been somewhat vast, owing to my generalist tendencies.  This suited me well and I spent a good amount of time…

  • Waldheim – LU Video

    Say what you will about this crazy debate, I finally took an hour to watch this, and its a pretty interesting introduction to landscape urbanism.  Looking forward to seeing the CNU presentation and discussion – anyone know if that’s going to be posted? 2010 – Charles Waldheim from College of Arts & Architecture on Vimeo.

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