https://landezine.com Landscape Architecture Platform Tue, 12 May 2026 09:24:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://landezine.com/environmental-stoicism-junkscapes-and-toxic-sublime/ https://landezine.com/environmental-stoicism-junkscapes-and-toxic-sublime/#respond Wed, 06 May 2026 12:23:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=133939 In the article we search for landscape architecture projects that resist the temptation of resigning control or creating spectacle. Environmental stoicism - working with existing conditions proves productive force in design approach.]]> https://landezine.com/environmental-stoicism-junkscapes-and-toxic-sublime/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/forest-encounters-negotiating-aesthetic-experience/ https://landezine.com/forest-encounters-negotiating-aesthetic-experience/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:44:29 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=133620 The forest has recently become a site of renewed interest — not only in philosophy and the humanities, but also in art and aesthetic theory. Many reasons lie behind this return, all closely tied to the tensions of our present moment. We speak with philosopher and co-editor of Forest Encounters, Mateja Kurir.]]> https://landezine.com/forest-encounters-negotiating-aesthetic-experience/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/jurgen-weidinger-limits-of-design-and-ways-forward/ https://landezine.com/jurgen-weidinger-limits-of-design-and-ways-forward/#respond Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:27:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=133402 Jürgen Weidinger on the pressures shaping landscape architecture today — from climate anxiety and public budgets to design culture and the next generation, and where the ways forward might be found.]]> https://landezine.com/jurgen-weidinger-limits-of-design-and-ways-forward/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/will-it-pass-or-not-taichung-central-park-and-the-trust-economy-in-taiwan/ https://landezine.com/will-it-pass-or-not-taichung-central-park-and-the-trust-economy-in-taiwan/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:36:21 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=132609 Alessandro Martinelli writes about how Taichung Central Park reveals a conflict between design and governance systems built on institutional trust and “appropriateness”. He stresses that procurement culture, political dynamics, and maintenance regimes can undermine ambitious landscape projects.]]> https://landezine.com/will-it-pass-or-not-taichung-central-park-and-the-trust-economy-in-taiwan/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-technological-alibi-performance-without-spatial-ambition/ https://landezine.com/the-technological-alibi-performance-without-spatial-ambition/#respond Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:52:55 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=131491 Ibrahim Diaz writes on how technical and ecological performance can act as an alibi for spatially weak landscapes. He argues that technical metrics are important, but risk replacing design ambition.]]> https://landezine.com/the-technological-alibi-performance-without-spatial-ambition/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-visual-permanence-of-heritage-sites-and-the-genius-mutabilis/ https://landezine.com/the-visual-permanence-of-heritage-sites-and-the-genius-mutabilis/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:18:51 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=131313 Historic gardens are in most cases preserved through visual continuity, yet climate change exposes the ecological instability beneath their timelessness. The article argues that heritage landscapes are to reveal, not conceal, this rupture—shifting toward a cultivated sense of change.]]> https://landezine.com/the-visual-permanence-of-heritage-sites-and-the-genius-mutabilis/feed/ 3 https://landezine.com/martin-rein-cano-of-topotek-1-i-prefer-places-of-conflict-to-places-of-harmony/ https://landezine.com/martin-rein-cano-of-topotek-1-i-prefer-places-of-conflict-to-places-of-harmony/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:00:21 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=130622 On the occasion of Topotek 1’s 30th anniversary, Martin Rein-Cano reflects on the firm’s practice. The interview covers projects old and new, the rejection of visual harmony, and the role of unscripted public space in mediating social and urban conflict.]]> https://landezine.com/martin-rein-cano-of-topotek-1-i-prefer-places-of-conflict-to-places-of-harmony/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/high-line-revisited-from-immersion-to-reflection/ https://landezine.com/high-line-revisited-from-immersion-to-reflection/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:56:54 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=129798 I returned to the High Line more than a decade after its completion to see how it had evolved. During my previous visit, Section Three was still under construction and closed to the public. The first two sections remain heavily visited, meticulously maintained, and perceptually closed; returning to them offered no new readings, aside from […]]]> https://landezine.com/high-line-revisited-from-immersion-to-reflection/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/maria-goula-we-need-more-transparency-among-ourselves/ https://landezine.com/maria-goula-we-need-more-transparency-among-ourselves/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:18:28 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=129260 Maria Goula is  Professor of Landscape Architecture and department chair at Cornell University. She is a licensed architect and landscape architect, holding a PhD with a focus on Landscape Design Theory. Before joining Cornell, she taught and practised professionally for over twenty years in Barcelona, Spain. Since 2000, she has been a founding member of […]]]> https://landezine.com/maria-goula-we-need-more-transparency-among-ourselves/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/designing-for-conviviality-in-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/designing-for-conviviality-in-landscape-architecture/#respond Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:20:54 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125194 Landscape architecture should engage intensively with conviviality—it has the capacity to unify many issues in current theoretical debates and connect the discipline to the global network of the conviviality movement.]]> https://landezine.com/designing-for-conviviality-in-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 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/krater-ljubljana-creative-laboratory-in-a-construction-pit-by-krater-collective/ https://landezine.com/krater-ljubljana-creative-laboratory-in-a-construction-pit-by-krater-collective/#respond Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122329 Krater includes no landscape architects and follows no formal landscape architecture plan. Yet it is an intervention in landscape that stands as a provocative inquiry into the status of abandoned plots embedded within the urban fabric. The project poses fundamental questions: is a site truly ‘neglected’ if a thriving biotope has already taken hold? Could such a space, in its self-organized vitality, already constitute a form of an urban park? How to organize the social dimension? Krater unfolds as an expedition into landscape itself—an open-ended investigation in which fragmented architectural elements function as instruments of observation, experiment, and reflection. The site operates as a living laboratory, challenging conventional practices of open space production and the disciplinary boundaries of landscape architecture. It addresses relevant uncertainties the Anthropocene entails, engaging critically with issues of multi-species coexistence and the contested notion of environmental harmonization. At a time when landscape architecture often seeks to simulate nature through aesthetic approximation or even mimicry, Krater seems oblivious to such representational impulses. Its proposition is radical in its restraint: rather than imposing form, it frames this ‘third landscape’ as a space of ecological processes, social encounter and experiment, revealing alternative logics of co-inhabitation, agency and design—logics that may become increasingly relevant as landscape architecture confronts its own ecological, ethical and epistemological limits. - from the award statements]]> https://landezine.com/krater-ljubljana-creative-laboratory-in-a-construction-pit-by-krater-collective/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lars-hopstock-hermann-mattern-idyll-and-ideology/ https://landezine.com/lars-hopstock-hermann-mattern-idyll-and-ideology/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:51:20 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121038 Lars Hopstock’s Idyll and Ideology: Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live In is a heavy-lifter historiographic study. Published by Jovis in 2024, the volume arrives as a carefully crafted and tactile artefact in Jagd style, with hunting-green viscose-flocked covers reminiscent of a mounted trophy. Indeed, Hopstock has ventured deeply into archival “woods”, emerging with meticulous evidence and nuanced narratives around Hermann Mattern (1902–1971), one of Germany's most significant yet contentious landscape architects. His expansive research not only sets the bar incredibly high for any similar undertakings but vividly frames Mattern’s navigation between aesthetic idyll and loaded ideology.]]> https://landezine.com/lars-hopstock-hermann-mattern-idyll-and-ideology/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/surfacedesign-there-is-no-fixed-formula/ https://landezine.com/surfacedesign-there-is-no-fixed-formula/#respond Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:29:05 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121103 Led by James A. Lord and Roderick Wyllie, Surfacedesign, Inc. is a San Francisco–based landscape architecture and urban design studio known for bold, material-driven work that blends architectural clarity with a sculptural, site-attuned sensibility. From public parks and international airports to intimate gardens and experimental studios, their projects push against the conventions of globalised sameness, […]]]> https://landezine.com/surfacedesign-there-is-no-fixed-formula/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-europe-full-of-life/ https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-europe-full-of-life/#respond Wed, 07 May 2025 11:33:41 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120153 The Landscape Architecture Europe Foundation (LAE) has published the 7th edition of its book series, titled Full of Life. With each issue released triennially, the editorial board delves into high-quality landscape architecture projects, tracing the evolution of this young profession and highlighting the significance of addressing climate and social issues while crafting beautiful spaces. The […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-europe-full-of-life/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/ooo-the-inner-surplus-of-meaning/ https://landezine.com/ooo-the-inner-surplus-of-meaning/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:40:26 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118272 As part of the broader philosophical movement of speculative realism, OOO (Object-Oriented Ontology) directly challenges the long-established belief that reality is always determined solely through human perception. Instead, the father of OOO, philosopher Graham Harman, argues that all objects—human and non-human, natural and artificial—exist independently of our subjective conceptualizations. To understand the radical nature and […]]]> https://landezine.com/ooo-the-inner-surplus-of-meaning/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/denis-delbaere-infrascapes-as-new-landscapes-critique-as-new-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/denis-delbaere-infrascapes-as-new-landscapes-critique-as-new-landscape-architecture/#respond Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:31:15 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118773 When I walk in the city center, in parks, I feel like I’m in a kind of theater. The fact that these environments have been deliberately designed for me to find them beautiful is, to me, a problem. But when you walk along an infrastructure, you know you’re in reality. You’re seeing the world as it truly is, as it appears to you. I believe landscape architects shouldn’t focus on cultural aesthetics. Instead, they should work with corporeal aesthetics—something much harder to grasp. Our job is not to create new beauty. Our job is to reveal the beauty that already exists. That’s a completely different approach.]]> https://landezine.com/denis-delbaere-infrascapes-as-new-landscapes-critique-as-new-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-losing-function-the-sleeping-dike-by-dingeman-deijs/ https://landezine.com/landscape-losing-function-the-sleeping-dike-by-dingeman-deijs/#respond Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:01:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118557 With a highly influential line of land artists creating large-scale earthworks, especially in the North American deserts, one asks: “Where did land art go?” Did works like The Lightning Field (1977) by Walter De Maria, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973–76), and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) conclude with Michael Heizer’s City—a project started in 1970 […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-losing-function-the-sleeping-dike-by-dingeman-deijs/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-realistic-idea-to-be-a-dreamer/ https://landezine.com/the-realistic-idea-to-be-a-dreamer/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:42:53 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118498 Reports of global warming, biodiversity loss, rising anti-democratic states, heatwaves, wars, and sea-level rise are enough to make anyone discouraged. In these times, hope is crucial—it’s the difference between envisioning a positive future and resigning to the present. Hope drives action, while hopelessness paralyzes. It rejects the status quo and aspires for change, making it vital for progress. Hope can grow and strengthen, but it can also fade.]]> https://landezine.com/the-realistic-idea-to-be-a-dreamer/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/low-res-landscape/ https://landezine.com/low-res-landscape/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:26:30 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118358 Exploring the interplay between low-res design and the transience of landscapes, this essay foregrounds the notion of resolution, enquiring about a dynamic interaction with landscapes in flux.]]> https://landezine.com/low-res-landscape/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/clearing-the-woods-dan-handel-on-forest-metaphors/ https://landezine.com/clearing-the-woods-dan-handel-on-forest-metaphors/#respond Mon, 17 Mar 2025 07:45:27 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118099 The book reads like a crime novel for landscape architects. It contains much of the stuff we don’t dare to look into, true – mostly because forests fall under the domain of forestry. Designed Forests: A Cultural History uncovers human entanglements with forests as a design metaphor through a series of gripping stories Dan Handel researched in serious depth, not leaving room for much romance. Taking us on a global journey through projects that involve forests as a point of departure, Handel catches us in our preconceived ways of thinking, traversing the undergirding ideas, cutting to the stem of those lines of thought. The book is not an answer to what a forest is, yet we might get an idea of how forest metaphor gets instrumentalized in discourse in spatial design practices and what this metaphor lacks.]]> https://landezine.com/clearing-the-woods-dan-handel-on-forest-metaphors/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/hold-still/ https://landezine.com/hold-still/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:44:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114978 With our 21st century attentions challenged by endless streams of information on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, as well as blockbuster films supercharged by quick cuts and loads of special effects, Roundhay Garden Scene is improbably well suited for our age: who really has the time to spend more than 1 or 2 seconds on any one piece of visual content?2 Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire, an 8-hour long, black-and-white movie featuring a single shot of New York City’s Empire State Building, offers a useful counterpoint.]]> https://landezine.com/hold-still/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/designing-inequality-audience-diversity-landscape-aesthetics-in-londons-olympic-legacy-park/ https://landezine.com/designing-inequality-audience-diversity-landscape-aesthetics-in-londons-olympic-legacy-park/#respond Wed, 08 Jan 2025 10:45:36 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114166 In 2014, in its first summer of opening, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP) had a problem with audience diversity.  Although residents in the park catchment were ethnically and racially mixed, its usership was disproportionately white.  My doctoral research1 found that the predominantly white Anglo-European park designers and client team had created a landscape which did […]]]> https://landezine.com/designing-inequality-audience-diversity-landscape-aesthetics-in-londons-olympic-legacy-park/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/ai-in-landscape-architecture-beyond-the-myth-of-ai-human-rivalry/ https://landezine.com/ai-in-landscape-architecture-beyond-the-myth-of-ai-human-rivalry/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:38:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114071 ... 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.]]> https://landezine.com/ai-in-landscape-architecture-beyond-the-myth-of-ai-human-rivalry/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/designing-with-applied-philosophy/ https://landezine.com/designing-with-applied-philosophy/#comments Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114107 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/designing-with-applied-philosophy/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/art-rethinking-nature-giovanni-aloi/ https://landezine.com/art-rethinking-nature-giovanni-aloi/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:22:38 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113322 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/art-rethinking-nature-giovanni-aloi/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-harm-of-harmonising/ https://landezine.com/the-harm-of-harmonising/#comments Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:23:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111731 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.]]> https://landezine.com/the-harm-of-harmonising/feed/ 3 https://landezine.com/laura-menatti-can-the-right-to-landscape-bridge-socio-environmental-challenges/ https://landezine.com/laura-menatti-can-the-right-to-landscape-bridge-socio-environmental-challenges/#comments Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:55:31 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110831 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.]]> https://landezine.com/laura-menatti-can-the-right-to-landscape-bridge-socio-environmental-challenges/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/urban-soundscapes-and-design-through-listening/ https://landezine.com/urban-soundscapes-and-design-through-listening/#respond Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:47:45 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110844 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/urban-soundscapes-and-design-through-listening/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/30-june-call-for-submissions-forest-encounters/ https://landezine.com/30-june-call-for-submissions-forest-encounters/#respond Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:08:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108418 FOREST ENCOUNTERS: short stories, flash fiction, poetry, essays The European cooperation project FOREST ENCOUNTERS is looking for representations of different encounters with the forest from both human and non-human perspectives. The FOREST ENCOUNTERS project explores and proposes diverse imaginaries, concepts, and practices around the following questions: What and how can we learn with and through […]]]> https://landezine.com/30-june-call-for-submissions-forest-encounters/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lydia-kallipoliti-histories-of-ecological-design/ https://landezine.com/lydia-kallipoliti-histories-of-ecological-design/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:06:06 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=107875 In the talk, Lydia Kallipoliti – #architect #educator #researcher #thinker – presents her newly published book Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia, followed by a Q&A where we talk about the intentions of writing the book, about how the “waste speaks of the incomplete perception of the World”, the psychological profile of ecological designers and […]]]> https://landezine.com/lydia-kallipoliti-histories-of-ecological-design/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/shtscapes-100-mistakes-in-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/shtscapes-100-mistakes-in-landscape-architecture/#respond Fri, 03 May 2024 13:02:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106651 Sh*tscapes is a 160-page book by London-based landscape architects Vladimir Guculak and Paul Bourel. They are also founders of studio gb, landscape architecture and design studio focused on the integration of nature into the city.]]> https://landezine.com/shtscapes-100-mistakes-in-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/palimpsestous-landscapes-post-industrial-parks/ https://landezine.com/palimpsestous-landscapes-post-industrial-parks/#comments Fri, 03 May 2024 10:52:11 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106504 A post-industrial park is typically a sexy landmark, easy to make a story of, photogenic, and a palimpsest in itself. It presents a victory of public use over the private and industrial by opening previously closed-off spaces. A post-industrial park offers some crucial topics of remediation, adaptive reuse, and social integration, among others. For a […]]]> https://landezine.com/palimpsestous-landscapes-post-industrial-parks/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/lila-2023-lisa-diedrich-on-aesthetics-of-the-transitory-and-operating-as-a-radicant/ https://landezine.com/lila-2023-lisa-diedrich-on-aesthetics-of-the-transitory-and-operating-as-a-radicant/#respond Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:13:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103230 In this interview, Zaš Brezar talks to Prof. Dr. Lisa Diedrich, the winner of LILA 2023 Honour Award. She speaks about her professional development throughout the years and specifically about being a ‘straddler’ between professional practice and academia. She references several books and projects that inspire her as a landscape architect, architect, journalist and especially […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-2023-lisa-diedrich-on-aesthetics-of-the-transitory-and-operating-as-a-radicant/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/ https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:03:39 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=102644 Landezine met with Taktyk at the XII Barcelona International Landscape Biennial in November 2023, at the same place where we made the first interview, seven years ago. Taktyk’s work is a collage of collaborations showing sensitivity to the site, tackling its most vulnerable spots. Sébastien Penfornis and Thierry Kandjee seek through prospective visions, on-site works […]]]> https://landezine.com/interview-with-taktyk-landscape-architecture-is-not-enough/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/strategies-against-sameness-1/ https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-1/#comments Fri, 13 Oct 2023 08:42:09 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=100091 The production of landscape architecture projects has been in recent years outstanding, and our entire professional community has much to be proud of. But as always, there is a flip side; like in architecture or any design discipline of the globalised and speeding-up world, we are faced with a sea of sameness. Too many buildings […]]]> https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-1/feed/ 3 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/the-paradigm-shift-and-spaces-of-meaning/ https://landezine.com/the-paradigm-shift-and-spaces-of-meaning/#respond Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:47:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=96155 »Paradigm shift« has been, for at least a decade now, one of the most used phrases in landscape architecture. We use it mainly to address the need to focus on design with natural processes in mind. This is important as it concerns our core values, attitude towards nature, the understanding of natural processes and the […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-paradigm-shift-and-spaces-of-meaning/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/alvar-aalto-nature-as-a-scale/ https://landezine.com/alvar-aalto-nature-as-a-scale/#respond Tue, 30 May 2023 11:29:10 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=94263 Alvar Aalto, one of the most important architects of modernism, was born 125 years ago. He grew up in Jyväskylä in central Finland. The opening of the Aalto2 museum hub occurred on 27 May as the highlight of the anniversary year. It combines two Alvar Aalto-designed edifices, the Museum of Central Finland (1956-61, 1991) and […]]]> https://landezine.com/alvar-aalto-nature-as-a-scale/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/using-artificial-intelligence-in-your-design-process/ https://landezine.com/using-artificial-intelligence-in-your-design-process/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:26:05 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=80770 Zaš Brezar on AI and the design process in the landscape architecture profession. ]]> https://landezine.com/using-artificial-intelligence-in-your-design-process/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/the-enchanting-secrecy-and-liberating-uselessness-of-roofs/ https://landezine.com/the-enchanting-secrecy-and-liberating-uselessness-of-roofs/#respond Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:55:32 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79948 In this essay, Zaš Brezar writes about the role of urban roofs in our collective memory. Illustrating the meaning of roofs through a selection of cultural references from films and music. The article is a part of Living Roofs focus on Landezine that is going on in October and November 2022.]]> https://landezine.com/the-enchanting-secrecy-and-liberating-uselessness-of-roofs/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lila-2021-sarah-cowles-of-ruderal-presents-their-winning-project/ https://landezine.com/lila-2021-sarah-cowles-of-ruderal-presents-their-winning-project/#respond Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:45:39 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=66728 Arsenal Oasis is a unique project located in Tbilisi Georgia. It was designed for the Tbilisi Architecture Biennale by an urban design and research studio Ruderal. In this video, the designer Sarah Cowles explains the forces and circumstances that shaped the project. The LILA 2021 jury wrote: Arsenal Oasis is an experimental project that deals […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-2021-sarah-cowles-of-ruderal-presents-their-winning-project/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/do-roundabouts-need-landscape-architects/ https://landezine.com/do-roundabouts-need-landscape-architects/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:03:11 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=43856 main image: © Nación Rotonda In the past decade or two, roundabouts have become a wide-spread phenomenon in Europe, bringing with them a series of issues, above all related to their number, location, and the ornamental structures placed in their centres.]]> https://landezine.com/do-roundabouts-need-landscape-architects/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/river-restoration-landscape-between-the-ecology-and-aesthetics/ https://landezine.com/river-restoration-landscape-between-the-ecology-and-aesthetics/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:02:56 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=43847 Katarina Bajc is a landscape architect, currently working as a researcher at HafenCity University in Hamburg.]]> https://landezine.com/river-restoration-landscape-between-the-ecology-and-aesthetics/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-foundation-summit-declaration-ian-mcharg/ https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-foundation-summit-declaration-ian-mcharg/#respond Thu, 04 Aug 2016 14:13:31 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=33370 In June, the US Landscape Architecture Foundation convened a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania entitled “The New Declaration: A Summit on Landscape Architecture”. ]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-foundation-summit-declaration-ian-mcharg/feed/ 0