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Green Plot Ratio
A recent link from World Landscape Architect uncovered a short but interesting post from The Daily Star by Faysal Kabir Shuvo on a concept called the Green Plot Ratio (GPR). It is interesting in reinforcing the idea of vegetated architecture and the need for greenery in cities and buildings in combating the effects of urban…
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Architectural Sub-Genre?
My daily email of clipping from Arch News Now made me do a double take when I scanned the word Vegitecture in the title of a post by Dan Stewart on Building blogs ‘Drawn State’ entitled ‘Vegitecture – whose idea was it, anyway?’ :: EDITT Tower, Ken Yeang – image via Drawn State From Drawn…
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Holes | Sites
One of the main contextual starting points of site design is the topography of sites… flat, sloped, steep, gradual – all influence the eventual end. What do we do when there is a significant depression – either natural, or created via cultural activities. Whereas we consider the malleability of the site as a generic field…
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Veg.itecture #45
It is time again. While these may be just pretty pictures, I feel strongly that these projects represent a new awakening of the potential meshing (not the disconnect) between the professions of architecture and landscape architecture. The project of the moment is actually one I feel a bit sheepish in saying I actually like –…
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High Line Double
I just couldn’t resist discussing the High Line in some sort, after a week of withdrawls… keeping it professional, a couple of great resources. A few days ago I stumbled upon the High Line Blog – which features a range of posts from the great folks at Friends of the High Line. :: image via…
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Alsop v. Schwartz
A very interesting debate that came via a link from World Landscape Architect features a throw-down between Architect Will Alsop and Martha Schwartz over the role of landscape architects in public space. The video is featured on Wallpaper (alas no embedded video, so the link is here). It seems Mr. Alsop (left) made some comments…
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Parasitic Architectures
A new blog that I stumbled upon is Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, which is geared towards ‘Exploring the Consequences of Fantastic, Perverse, and Underrated Urbanisms” – which at least gets a nod for original mission statement. After some headaches related to the 3 narrow-column format – I did find a number of interesting posts. One that…
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Another Utopia: Victory City™
There are many diverse versions of utopia that have been proposed over the years… from Wright’s Broadacre City, Howards Garden Cities, Callenbach’s Ecotopia, Soleri’s Arcosanti and Corbu’s La Ville Radieuse (to name a few) – a long history of attempts to synthesize urban perfection have been attempted. Most of these ideas are either merely thought-exercises…
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Agro-Urban Resources
A recurring theme for sure… both on the web and media at large and within the confines of Landscape+Urbanism, urban agriculture has received short shrift lately (here) due to other ideas and concepts on the front burner. I have recently been delving through my new copy of CPULs (Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes) and will be…
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Green Shrouds…
It’s been a bit of time since I’ve referenced some of both the definitions of Veg.itecture and some of the issues of implementation… perhaps a review is in order – or at least a refresher tied to some of the discussions regarding the projects that appear here on L+U. There’s the definition and the specific…