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Modelling Dynamic Processes
One of the interesting links I found on Bradley Cantrell’s site showed a very cool project being developed by the UC Berkeley to simulate river dynamics, which have notoriously been difficult to replicate. Via Science Daily: “Christian Braudrick, William Dietrich and their colleagues are the first to build a scaled-down meandering stream in the lab…
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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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Retrofitting Suburbia
A nice long video from TEDx Atlanta featuring Ellen Dunham-Jones on Retrofitting Suburbia that “…takes you through retrofitted suburbia, transforming dead malls into buzzing downtown centers.”
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Certificate in Urban Green Infrastructure
My colleagues Brice Maryman and Nate Cormier, both landscape architects at SvR Design Company in Seattle, are teaching a pair of online courses this Spring and Summer with a focus on Urban Green Infrastructure. These two know the ins and outs of the topic, through their work locally and through the ever-expanding Green Infrastructure Wiki.…
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Metropolitan Field Guide
University of Oregon landscape architecture graduate and now Seattle resident Kelly Brenner has an interesting blog called ‘The Metropolitan Field Guide’ which focuses on design for urban wildlife habitat. As a self-professed generalist which tends to take me on ADHD-addled tours of pretty much everything, I’m a big fan of folks who aim to provide…
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Field Ops is Hot (Still)
In addition to being named on the top 10 list in Fast Company’s Most Innovative Architecture Companies (the only LA on the list) and the major success of the High Line, a couple of recent wins have pushed James Corner Field Operations fully from the realm of the theoretical provocateur, to competition all-star to full-fledged…
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Sprawl Repair Kit
I was not terribly impressed by the collective productivity of last years Reburbia competition. There were highlights, but one was left wondering what all the fuss was about – and if these short, open-ended festivities were worth the attention. One exception in terms of ideas is the Urban Sprawl Repair Kit (via Inhabitat) by Galina…
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New Blogs
It’s been ages since I’ve posted about some of the recent blog additions. To maintain my sanity, I’ve decided that for each new blog I add to my personal RSS feed, I take another off (the total hovers around 120 or so, which is a lot of input). I keep all of them in the…
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Food City
Via ArchDaily, this study by MVRDV, The Why Factory and Stroom Den Haag looks at urban farming in the relationship to global food supplies. As David Basulto adds: “…urban farming goes more in the direction of the last phrase of the video: “could it (urban farming) help bringing some agriculture into the cities to bring…
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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…