https://landezine.com Landscape Architecture Platform Tue, 12 May 2026 09:25:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://landezine.com/piet-oudolf-and-de-bloeimeesters-in-discussion/ https://landezine.com/piet-oudolf-and-de-bloeimeesters-in-discussion/#comments Tue, 12 May 2026 09:23:15 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=134031 Piet Oudolf talks to filmmaker and planting specialist Arjan Boekel of De Bloeimeesters in the garden at Hummelo, about what planting design for the 21st-century issues actually requires, and where the profession still falls short.]]> https://landezine.com/piet-oudolf-and-de-bloeimeesters-in-discussion/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/dr-giovanni-aloi-the-lawn-nothing-to-do-with-nature/ https://landezine.com/dr-giovanni-aloi-the-lawn-nothing-to-do-with-nature/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:15:09 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122624 In the U.S., lawns cover nearly 2 percent of the land surface and, as researcher Cristina Milesi revealed using satellite data, “could be considered the single largest irrigated crop in America”—their total area is three times larger than that of irrigated cornfields. The infatuation with lawns runs so deep that, in some cases, failing to […]]]> https://landezine.com/dr-giovanni-aloi-the-lawn-nothing-to-do-with-nature/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/forest-intercalations/ https://landezine.com/forest-intercalations/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:39:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116571 Collectively, all humans experience 8 billion days in 24 hours. That is about 22 million years lived in one day. When one starts to think about time in that way, it seems inevitable to envision the collective impact of human life on Earth. ]]> https://landezine.com/forest-intercalations/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/ https://landezine.com/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:29:27 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=100939 Sarah Cowles of Ruderal presents their design for the Betania Garden near Tbilisi, Georgia, which was awarded LILA 2023 Special Mention in the Garden category. We start the discussion with an update on Arsenal Oasis, another LILA-winning project from 2021 (See the presentation). For the Betania Garden, the LILA 2023 jury wrote: At first glance, […]]]> https://landezine.com/betania-garden-rich-and-detailed-composition-with-minimum-amount-of-moves/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-cute-the-bad-and-the-ugly-on-urban-biodiversity-and-ecological-aesthetics/ https://landezine.com/the-cute-the-bad-and-the-ugly-on-urban-biodiversity-and-ecological-aesthetics/#comments Thu, 31 Aug 2023 09:40:59 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=97784 Urban biodiversity? Yes, please! Nevertheless … … Due to the transitional phase of our understanding of nature in the light of the Anthropocene, there are still some important notions, contradictions and misunderstandings that need to be addressed. To do so, we will operate with terms like nature, ecology, biodiversity, landscape, and aesthetics, and we’ll focus […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-cute-the-bad-and-the-ugly-on-urban-biodiversity-and-ecological-aesthetics/feed/ 7 https://landezine.com/lila-honour-award-2022-gilles-clement/ https://landezine.com/lila-honour-award-2022-gilles-clement/#respond Mon, 08 May 2023 11:27:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=92671 We are thrilled to share with you the interview with LILA 2022 Honour Award winner Gilles Clément. The interview was conducted in Paris in November 2022 by Zaš Brezar and Joost Emmerik. The editors wrote in the award statement: Gilles Clément (1943) is a French landscape architect or better ‘paysagiste’, having a more garden design-related […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-honour-award-2022-gilles-clement/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/dr-stephan-brenneisen-living-roofs-biodiversity-and-water-retention-by-design-measures/ https://landezine.com/dr-stephan-brenneisen-living-roofs-biodiversity-and-water-retention-by-design-measures/#respond Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:12:33 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=80260 Dr. Stephan Brenneisen from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences has been researching urban biodiversity and roofs for over 25 years. In a video presentation, he talks about his findings. We asked him specifically to speak about what to keep in mind when designing biodiverse roofs. What can landscape architects learn from his extensive experience, […]]]> https://landezine.com/dr-stephan-brenneisen-living-roofs-biodiversity-and-water-retention-by-design-measures/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lila-2021-estudio-ome-present-their-winning-forest-garden/ https://landezine.com/lila-2021-estudio-ome-present-their-winning-forest-garden/#respond Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:07:40 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=71137 Susana Rojas Saviñón and Hortense Blanchard are the driving forces behind Estudio Ome, a young 5-member landscape architecture practice based out of Mexico City. Their first realized project Forest Garden immediately received LILA in the garden category. Besides that, we could easily say that Ome is LILA’s young-talent discovery of 2021. We really look forward […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-2021-estudio-ome-present-their-winning-forest-garden/feed/ 0