The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe open Call for the EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025, inviting schools to propose the best works from recently graduated architects, urban planners and landscape architects. Procedure:– Nominations are entirely free of charge and can only be made by schools by 29 January 2025.– Open to all […]
… what is the stage of AI in and outside the profession and discipline of landscape architecture? Many firms are now incorporating Generative AI into their workflow. Firms such as SWA have been able to fund research fellows exploring generative AI. Anecdotally, I have learned that other firms have similar internal initiatives. One trend is using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models), a lightweight training technique that can “fine-tune” one’s Stable Diffusion models to generate images in a certain style.
One would ask what is a motif today to collect such a volume book about one particular garden. One could answer: Because it’s La Gara, one exclusive example of a manor garden in Geneva that has undergone a continuous transformation by 18 generations of owners, and even squatters, with the first mention in 1555, up […]
Architectural Heritage Intervention (AHI) has launched the seventh edition of the European Award AHI, with registrations open from December 18, 2024, to March 14, 2025. A benchmark for heritage intervention since its inception in 2013, the award recognizes excellence across disciplines. The biennial event is jointly organized with the Architects’ Association of Catalonia and supported […]
Today, the possibility arises to define a new design approach to address issues of environmental and social justice in the urban context. Based on an integrated understanding of the interdependencies involving human and environmental relations, the applied-philosophy approach for landscape architectural practices induces a paradigm shift in spatial design. Rather than applying downstream solutions to […]
Halloween evening in Brooklyn, New York. Outside, a menagerie of children milled the sidewalks in spooky costumes seeking offerings of candy. At the same time, a smaller coalition of diverse students, faculty, and researchers gathered inside Higgins Hall at Pratt Institute to engage in a tricky debate over public trailways, the return of indigenous lands, […]
Domesticated and genetically engineered organisms are usually overlooked by natural museums and institutions for cultural history. There is no space for artifacts such as dogs, chickens and corn. The Center for PostNatural History is the sequel to the natural history museum, and takes agriculture’s evolution as a starting point. CPNH focuses on the deliberate alterations […]
The famous Bartleby quote: “I would prefer not to”, is often the paradoxical silent monologue of a professional working in development. You need the job but you don’t always believe the project’s brief is fully justified, in line with the values and needs of users, sometimes even feels forced to produce revenue which can put […]
What do we actually know about the ground on which we stand, and how does it relate to our landscape projects Interventions on the surface of the landscape affect the underground as much as they are conditioned by it. Many processes pass through the grade of the ground, relating to water, energy, ecology and vegetation, with trees bridging above- and below grade. Organic matter is created in the ground, carbon is captured and stored there, and it is the habitat of various species. If we, as landscape architects, aim to incorporate ecology and hydrology into project development, the design phase must incorporate a thinking of above- and below grade as one.
The Dutch Landscape, The Ultimate Guide for Study, Professional and Personal Use by Alexandra Tišma[1] and Han Lörzing[2] is a “text-book” and a thorough yet very accessible guide on landscapes in the Netherlands – described from many angles and scales, historical, geographical, geological and biotic layers, cultural landscapes, from development, and planning to conservation – […]
Giovanni Aloi is an author, curator, and creator with a PhD from Goldsmiths University, focusing on natural history in art representation. His work examines depictions of flora and fauna to uncover societal values and foster shifts in these through critical reflection. Through publishing, curating exhibitions, delivering talks, and editing Antennae: The Journal of Nature in […]
The 4th Symposium of the Istituto di Studi Urbani e del Paesaggio (ISUP), titled Landscape As Architecture, took place in Mendrisio, Switzerland, from November 13 to 15, 2024. Previous editions in the series explored themes of Climate Urbanism, Scale, and Density. Out of over 250 submissions, the curators, Jonathan Sergison, João Nunes, and João Gomes […]
Dr. Jevgeniy Bluwstein, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Bern, examines how the reductive Western view of landscapes reinforces colonization through exclusionary conservation practices, focusing on a case study of Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. Introducing the term “landscapism,” meaning the “double movement of colonizing landscapes/landscaping colonies,” Bluwstein offers a critical perspective, advocating for viewing landscapes through a lens of relationality.
Laura Cipriani is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Delft University of Technology and a founder of Superlandscape, a landscape and urban design firm. She holds a Ph.D. in Landscape Urbanism from IUAV, a master’s degree in landscape and urban issues from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a master’s in Architecture from IUAV. […]
The boulevard of Nice, a Christmas market in Berlin or the headquarters of a Dutch newspaper – the past decade has seen a rising number of attacks with a vehicle as a weapon. Following these attacks, city officials started to look differently at their public space. How do we keep our public spaces safe and […]
The Nuclear Chronicles: Design Research on the Landscapes of the U.S. Nuclear Highway by Andrew Madl is an exploration of unrealized U.S. government nuclear proposals and their speculative impact on the western landscape. Through fictional narratives in a graphic novel format, the book imagines cultural and ecological shifts, illustrating infrastructures and economies that might emerge […]
Purpose of the Competition Following the closure of Tempelhof Airport, Berlin gained a key urban open space now enjoyed for recreation. Protected by the Tempelhofer Feld Law, this area faces new challenges, including housing needs. Berlin’s CDU and SPD coalition is considering thoughtful peripheral development, retaining most of the space for public use. This open […]
Planet City is a worldbuilding project by Liam Young, envisioned as a multilayered city, occupying as little as 0,02 percent of Earth’s surface yet hosting all of the human population. Planet City is testing the Half-Earth idea by Edward O. Wilson, where we put aside half of the planet, to keep biodiversity. We spoke with Liam Young about the idea and the exhibition he curates, Visions of Planet City.
Following the AILA preliminary regional awards that recognize outstanding projects within specific states or territories, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects has announced the winners of the 2024 National Landscape Architecture Awards, recognizing 43 outstanding projects across 16 categories. Jury chair Andrew Thomas praised this year’s winners for their exemplary design, leadership, and commitment to […]
OKRA has been awarded as Best Landscape Design Firm, and two projects have been chosen as Landscape Designs of the Year 2024 by the LOOP Design Awards! The former deportation station of Bobigny was recognized in the Heritage Design category, while Catharijnesingel has won in Parks & Open Space. The projects stood out among over 500 […]
The Landscape Institute (LI) is hosting its annual Jellicoe Lecture in London, focusing on the integration of landscape and nature-based solutions in housing development. Responding to the UK government’s emphasis on housing growth and planning reform, the lecture will underscore the critical role landscape plays in creating high-quality, sustainable living environments. Attendees, including professionals from […]
Almost every park needs a playground area and children’s playgrounds are one of the toughest typologies to design. The equipment available is either ugly or beyond budget, especially in the public realm. Then the programme is repetitive — poles, slides, swings, climbing walls, sandpits. For the designer to cover the developmental needs of all ages […]
The 2024 European Prize for Urban Public Space is in its twelfth edition. The jury selected two projects: the “Park at the Warsaw Uprising Mound” in Warsaw, Poland, which is also this year’s LILA winner, and the “Beach improvement and redevelopment of the harbour edge” in Porto do Son, Spain. In the Seafronts Category, the […]
The Torghatten nature path project has won the 2024 Landscape Architecture Award, presented by the Norwegian Association of Landscape Architects (NLA). The award celebrates Østengen & Bergo Landskapsarkitekter MNLA who won the award in partnership with the client, the Tourist Road Section of the National Road Administration, for skillfully balancing the protection of nature with […]
Dušan Ogrin (1929-2019) was the pioneer of Slovenian landscape architecture. In 1972, he founded the Landscape Architecture programme at the University of Ljubljana. His seminal work The World Heritage of Gardens was published in 1993, so it was not too far-fetched to dedicate a book in his memory to the topic of gardens. The editors […]
Northcrest Developments has launched a global design competition to transform a 2-km decommissioned runway at the former Downsview Airport in Toronto into a vibrant pedestrian corridor. The competition aims to make the runway a key feature of the future 370-acre community, connecting seven neighborhoods with public spaces, amenities, and recreational areas for 55,000 residents and […]
Rhys Williams is the program director for landscape architecture at the University of Technology Sydney. Rhys visited the experimental garden festival in Switzerland, Lausanne Jardins. Here is his take on the context and a selection of exhibited projects.
The ASLA Awards celebrate excellence in landscape architecture, recognizing outstanding projects across categories like General Design, Residential Design, Urban Design, and more. These awards highlight innovative and sustainable projects that improve the quality of life, promote ecological resilience, and address pressing societal challenges. The awards are judged by a distinguished jury of professionals in the […]
We asked Gary Hilderbrand (Reed Hilderbrand, Harvard GSD) to suggest three books that are relevant to landscape architects and should be more known in the profession. Here is his proposal: _ 1. The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture by Emanuele Coccia / Polity, 2018 This is a book that you just have to […]
As we confront the growing ecological crisis, it becomes increasingly difficult to argue that harmonious aesthetics, designed primarily for pleasure and ease, are always the most effective mode of expression. Perhaps there is space to question whether ecological efforts demand a different aesthetic attitude, one less fixated on traditional notions of balance and spatial conformity and more open to dissensus and confrontation.
You are invited to attend the Abundance Talks at the Columbia GSAPP in person or online on October 31st at 12 p.m. EST. The talk includes speakers Manu Karuka (Barnard) and Adrian Anagnost (Tulane) who will address how is nature portrayed as suitable for conquest? These two talks illustrate how the distribution of abundance—as a […]
Sara Eichner is a visual artist and designer with a keen interest in data visualisations and cartography. She works with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and programming languages like Python and uses design software to translate data into comprehensible visual stories. Her work is people-centred and she often uses data to represent less-heard voices. Eichner is […]
Caio Reisewitz has created an artistic intervention in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, titled “Suspendre el Cel”. To Suspend the Sky is the artist’s reference to activists shamans Davi Kopenawa and Ailton Krenak, alluding to Indigenous practices and beliefs of Amazonian people that the earth is made out of the sky, so the sky […]
The 2025 Colloquium by Network City and Landscape, NSL, titled “Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes,” will be held at ETH Zürich from February 26-28, 2025, under the invitation of Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard. The event aims to explore the integration of landscape design and maintenance in response to evolving environmental and social challenges. With […]
35th IFLA Europe Regional Conference, themed PLAN[E]TSCAPE, will be hosted in Budapest by the Hungarian Association of Landscape Architects. The conference will focus on the role of landscape architecture in tackling environmental challenges through innovative design and sustainable plant use. As a key gathering for European landscape professionals, the conference will explore the profession’s potential […]
In the current debate about climate change and its disruptive effects on the health of people and ecosystems, the reclamation of the ‘right to the environment’ has gained momentum, both in theoretical accounts and in legal documents. Yet, it is useful to make a first distinction between the right to the environment and the right of the environment.
Landscape architects usually think of compact greenery as the sound buffer minimizing noise pollution but we rarely think about specifically designing with sound, acoustics of space and the soundscape present at the site of intervention. Especially in the art scene, the sonification of plants, microbes, underwater creatures and their otherwise unheard processes, gained special attention […]
Data Through Design invites you to participate in the annual exhibition where participants “creatively analyze, interpret and interrogate data made available in NYC’s Open Data Portal. With art’s capacity to capture the human experience, DxD surfaces hidden stories, disrupts widely accepted patterns, and questions claims to objectivity of data-driven narratives.” This 2025 theme is “Corpus: […]
The 1st Porto Urban Greening Biennial will address the current and future challenges of Urban Green Infrastructure installation and management – a key strategy to address the climate emergency and foster environmental justice, social cohesion, and integration. The theme of this first edition is Planting the Living City, which will be supported by the invited […]
The 13th edition of the Landscape Festival, titled Facing the Crisis, organized by Arketipos, will be held at Teatro Sociale in Bergamo, Italy, and will be accompanied by the international meeting.The opening will be followed by speakers, including Catherine Mosbach, who designed this year’s exhibition garden. Speakers include practitioners from all over the globe, from […]
Gary Hilderbrand has been teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Design since 1990 and is currently the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. He is also the founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand, a leading landscape architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm was established in the […]
The book by the legendary Danish landscape architect, Carl Theodor Sørensen (1893-1979), originally published in 1966, is for the first time published in English, with a foreword by Joost Emmerik and an Introduction by Lodewijk Wiegersma. Published by Blawdruk Publishers and Sonja Poll, the 39 Unusual Gardens for an Ordinary House is a landmark book […]
Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, LA+ is inviting for submissions from academics, writers, artists, critics, to contribute with a topic on MEMORY. Should you be interested, see more information following this link. “Landscape speaks by way of constant change, rooted in process and evolution – the marks of water along a shoreline, seasonal cycles of […]
Radicepura Garden Festival announces the Call for Ideas to participate in the fifth edition of the Biennale dedicated to garden design, which will have the topic Chaos (and) Order in the Garden from an idea of Antonio Perazzi, artistic director of the festival. The international call is open to students, landscape architects, agronomists, garden designers, […]
We invite you to register for the ECLAS conference titled Regenerative Landscapes. Designing the Transition. Keynote speakers are Alexandre Chemetoff, Dr. Rachel Lilley, Nathan Barlow, Dr. Sandra Groll and Gilles Doignon. More information is available on the ECLAS Conference website. “ECLAS 2024 will discuss the capacity of landscape as an approach and a method for […]
Bridges allow the landscape to flow underneath – or as in recent endeavours, in land bridges or ecoducts, nature flows over. In the latter, a bridge adjoins disconnected landscape portions created by cuts in the terrain. In any case, bridges form connections and links when a river or other barrier needs to be crossed. As […]
In the selection for the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2024, organised by of the CCCB, there are a number of high-quality landscape architecture projects as well, we congratulate all the nominees! The International Jury, comprised of Beth Galí, Sonia Curnier, Fabrizio Gallanti, Žaklina Gligorijević, Beate Hølmebakk, Manon Mollard, Francesco Musco and Lluís Ortega, […]
“Excerpts from a project on Trees and Beasts” Denise Hoffman Brandt© Denise Hoffman What do we actually mean when we talk about nature? As a professor in a discipline that since the early 1970s has, mostly, claimed to practice “design with nature”—referencing Ian McHarg’s book (1969) of that title—that’s a question I have often asked. […]
