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Linx: 08.05.09
L+U LinkFest: 08.09.09A collection of links from the past two weeks. See the entire list via delicious > landscapeurbanism :: Crisis Modes – image via ArchidoseLandscape+Urbanism: A Daily Dose of Architecture: Crisis Modes Art for Urban Planners – Part One | Planetizen Maps are all around us Franklin & Marshall – Public Parks and the…
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Thoroughly Modern Landscape
I’m a big fan of modern architecture, as well a the simplicity of modern landscape design. But, I thought the days of artful boxes placed atop generic landscaped fields with little to offer in the way of beauty, poetry, or function was long over as people understood the relationship between building and site in new…
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Landscape Architects = Green
Originally published in Engineering News-Record, and now posted in Architectural Record, the big news of the day is “Landscape Architects Play Central Role in Green Design.” Wow, that’s some real journalism 🙂 But kidding aside, it’s great to see the profession getting some much deserved accolades in the realm of sustainability – which has been…
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More from the Ecotone
I am a fan of the conceptual parti of the ‘ecotone’ as seen from the Integrating Habitats competition award winner ‘Urban Ecotones’ from 2008. The use of this landscape ecology principle, which is defined as a transitional zone between distinct plant communities, offers a lot of mileage as an evocative strategy within it’s original sphere…
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Reading List: Healing Spaces
In an attempt to give back to all of the fine publishers that send me review copies of books, I’m striving for a couple of weeks of posts in the spirit of the ‘Overdue Book Report’. First on the list is a great book that I just finished this morning, “Healing Spaces: The Science of…
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Design Observer + Places
A heads up from @Space2Place on Twitter (i’m sorry I just can’t for the life of me us the word ‘tw@et’ in a post) offered a couple of great resources. First, I don’t know how I had missed this one, but a great site called Design Observer offers a fantastic array of writing on a…
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Suburban Fantasies
These visualizations of suburban patterns by Ross Racine offer “…fictive urban patterns, mostly suburbias, surrounded by a desert or agricultural looking environment.” (via Landezine) :: image via LandezineThis is definitely a compelling idea to both elucidate and satirize the ubiquitous suburban patterns, and offers some commentary about the drivers of these forms. I thought at…
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Hot in the City
Sitting in front (or anywhere near) a computer in the past week has been somewhat trying… a lowdown of the past 5 days (via National Weather Service)…July 29: 106July 28: 106July 27: 103July 26: 93July 25: 90The prediction for the next few days are hovering around 100… FYI, our average high temp at this time…
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Annals of Artifice
This project made me think specifically of the MOMA rooftop garden by Ken Smith… something about artifice that seems somewhat contrived… but I guess that’s the point 🙂 Via Treehugger: “Purists sneered at this garden made out of plasticine when it was first exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show. Designed by the star of Top…
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Garden City Detroit
A great dialogue that happened a few weeks back over at Kaid Benfield’s blog at NRDC (read it, the links, and the comments… good stuff) – about the fate and potential for Detroit. Seems that without reading the report – there’s a lot of knee-jerk reaction to what has been percieved as ‘bulldozing and planting…