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1 million visitors
My blogging has tapered off recently due to going to school and running my business – but it’s still exciting to see the overall number of visitors going over 1 million, which is a wonderful landmark for the site. I’m definitely always looking to adapt and adjust the site for maximizing my understanding of landscape…
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Mississippi Modelling
An article that came up amidst discussions on the Landscape Urbanism Reader revisits the question of scale brought by up Linda Pollak in her essay ‘Constructed Ground’. On Design Observer, Kristi Dykema Cheramie investigates the wonderful history of the massive model built to simulate river conditions in her essay The Scale of Nature: Modeling…
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RBC: Notes on the Third Ecology | Kwinter
Notes on the Third Ecology | Sanford Kwinter Kwinter used the dichotomy of city/nature, rooting in our historic perceptions that evolved in the Industrial era. As mentioned, this concept is characterized by a time “…when immense upheavals in social, economic, and political life transformed the very landscape around us and our relationship to it irreversibly…
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RBC: Urban Earth: Mumbai
Urban Earth: Mumbai | Raven-Elison & Askins Urban Earth, with studies in Mumbai, Mexico City, and London: Their approach: “walking across some of Earth’s biggest urban areas, to explore their spatial realities for the people who live there and challenge dominant media discourses regarding the places in which most of us now live. The idea…
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RBC: Mumbai on My Mind | Bhabha
Mumbai on My Mind: Some Thoughts on Sustainability | Homi Bhabha :: Mumbai Slum – image via Lost & Found “It is always too early, or too late, to talk of the ‘cities of the future.’ (78) Bhabha uses this essay to frame the idea of sustainability and innovation, mentioning that “Any claim to newness,…
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RBC: Zeekracht (OMA)
Zeekracht | OMA A related follow-up to the essay by Koolhaas, this short essay explores Zeekracht, a master plan for the North Sea, driven by it’s “high wind and consistent wind speeds and shallow waters…” making it “…arguably the world’s most suitable area for large-scale wind farming.” The project master plan (below) outlines the strategy. …
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The Red Brick Chronicles – ‘Advancement verus Apocalypse’ by Rem Koolhaas
As I mentioned in the recent reckoning of the L+U blog, I wanted to focus on a number of recent texts that I’ve had the chance to delve into (by disconnecting myself from the nefarious teat of the RSS feeder) Of significance is finally getting around to expanding on the initial readings of the book…
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Kunstler on Landscape Urbanism
James Howard Kunstler joins the LU/NU ‘debate’ with a completely Kunstlerian commentary with some rhertorical tidbids like LU displaying “a complete lack of interest in the basic components of urban design”… “incorporates lots of high tech ‘magic’ infrastructure for directing water flows and requires massive, costly, complex site interventions” and is “…against density and vehemently…
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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…
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Reading the Landscape: A Reference Manifesto
As mentioned previously we are fully engaged in a group reading of the Landscape Urbanism Reader, edited by Charles Waldheim, and as promised, are providing some brief synopses of what transpired in the previous weeks dialogue are regular intervals. Our first week was a soft launch, allowing folks to introduce themselves to the group, and…