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/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/thomas-balsley-why-not-give-people-something-different/ https://landezine.com/thomas-balsley-why-not-give-people-something-different/#respond Fri, 01 May 2026 08:19:20 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=133862 Thomas Balsley is a central figure in shaping contemporary public space in New York City, with a career spanning more than four decades. His work has focused on transforming post-industrial waterfronts into resilient and socially active public landscapes. His portfolio includes more than 100 projects, among them Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park, Gantry Plaza State […]]]> https://landezine.com/thomas-balsley-why-not-give-people-something-different/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/gelitin-the-landscape-lost-to-a-rabbit/ https://landezine.com/gelitin-the-landscape-lost-to-a-rabbit/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:14:34 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=133790 Recently, a case of a huge pink rabbit lying ‘dead’ in a mountainous terrain circulated on social media. The odd situation caught our attention. Hase by Gelitin produces a defamiliarising effect on the landscape — the body of a dreamy vernacular landscape is invaded.]]> https://landezine.com/gelitin-the-landscape-lost-to-a-rabbit/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/ed-wall-on-architecture-for-warfare-how-corporations-profit-from-destruction-and-reconstruction/ https://landezine.com/ed-wall-on-architecture-for-warfare-how-corporations-profit-from-destruction-and-reconstruction/#respond Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:08:44 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=133809 Ed's new book, published by Jovis, traces the entanglements between spatial design and the expanding geography of war. It began, as Ed explains, with a moment of bitter revelation during his years in practice as a landscape architect ...]]> https://landezine.com/ed-wall-on-architecture-for-warfare-how-corporations-profit-from-destruction-and-reconstruction/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/topophilia-revisited-the-instability-of-place/ https://landezine.com/topophilia-revisited-the-instability-of-place/#respond Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:37:42 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=133018 Topophilia, the affective bond to place, presumes duration through which meaning accumulates. Under accelerating transformation, places are altered, degraded, or erased. Design, we argue, cannot produce places, it can only frame conditions where it may emerge and allow for attachment, not secure it.]]> https://landezine.com/topophilia-revisited-the-instability-of-place/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/inner-cosmologies-of-enclosed-landscapes/ https://landezine.com/inner-cosmologies-of-enclosed-landscapes/#respond Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:32:28 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=132986 Literature is abundant on enclosed landscapes; from atriums, private gardens and patios, to large courtyards, cemeteries and spaces of worship. One thing seems to be in common to all: enclosure functions not only as a protective device, but also produces a world.]]> https://landezine.com/inner-cosmologies-of-enclosed-landscapes/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/stephen-buckle-bold-break-from-the-mundane/ https://landezine.com/stephen-buckle-bold-break-from-the-mundane/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:52:45 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=132328 We talk to Stephen Buckle about drawing as a thinking tool, landscape as urban system rather than surface, negotiating development pressures, rejecting fixed styles in favour of place response, and why landscape architects must take a stronger leadership role in shaping dense cities.]]> https://landezine.com/stephen-buckle-bold-break-from-the-mundane/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-must-account-for-the-landscapes-it-consumes/ https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-must-account-for-the-landscapes-it-consumes/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:54:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=132315 Landscape architecture operates through territorial displacement but rarely narrates it. Sense of place must also include the geographies embedded in supply chains. Otherwise it becomes aesthetic traditionalism, concealing its material contradictions as the ecological crisis unfolds.]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-architecture-must-account-for-the-landscapes-it-consumes/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/deepfakes-of-blue-skies-a-november-reality-check/ https://landezine.com/deepfakes-of-blue-skies-a-november-reality-check/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:39:35 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=132044 Anti-render flips the golden-hour fantasy. What if your project is seen on a grey November Tuesday instead of a May evening? A look at AI tools that strip away atmosphere and expose what design really stands on once people, light and seasonal charm disappear.]]> https://landezine.com/deepfakes-of-blue-skies-a-november-reality-check/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/designing-by-numbers-greening-factors-and-biodiversity-gains/ https://landezine.com/designing-by-numbers-greening-factors-and-biodiversity-gains/#respond Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:21:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=131785 Rob Beswick examines how the Urban Greening Factor and Biodiversity Net Gain are reshaping landscape practice in the UK, arguing that while both policies advance environmental recovery, their success depends on integrating metrics with design quality, social value, and long-term resilience.]]> https://landezine.com/designing-by-numbers-greening-factors-and-biodiversity-gains/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/chiara-geroldi-moved-earth-designing-landscapes-with-discarded-fill/ https://landezine.com/chiara-geroldi-moved-earth-designing-landscapes-with-discarded-fill/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:08:11 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=131406 We talk to Chiara Geroldi about how landscape architecture can engage with the growing landscapes of discarded soil, the importance of making material processes legible, and how design can approach material surplus for shaping post-industrial and infrastructural topographies.]]> https://landezine.com/chiara-geroldi-moved-earth-designing-landscapes-with-discarded-fill/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/chrono-urbanism-planning-cities-through-time/ https://landezine.com/chrono-urbanism-planning-cities-through-time/#respond Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:10:09 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=131359 This article critiques how industrial "clock-time" and efficiency-driven planning structure urban life. It examines the shift from spatial mapping to "chrono-urbanism," using isochrones and rhythmic analysis to reveal how transport and institutional schedules distribute time and access unequally.]]> https://landezine.com/chrono-urbanism-planning-cities-through-time/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/ziga-malek-natural-climate-solutions-and-reducing-excess/ https://landezine.com/ziga-malek-natural-climate-solutions-and-reducing-excess/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:36:47 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=130807 Žiga Malek on Natural Climate Solutions: their mitigation potential, limits, and land-use trade-offs, on how ecosystem protection, not tree planting alone, offers major benefits but cannot replace fossil fuel cuts, and how effective climate action requires systemic changes and realistic land use.]]> https://landezine.com/ziga-malek-natural-climate-solutions-and-reducing-excess/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/parco-della-pace-triggering-processes-rather-than-demanding-results/ https://landezine.com/parco-della-pace-triggering-processes-rather-than-demanding-results/#respond Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:51:52 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=130585 An interview with PAN Associati and EMF on the LILA 2025-winning Parco della Pace. Born from a former military airfield in Vicenza, this "non-muscular" design uses soil movement and groundwater to create a low-cost, 65-hectare landscape that prioritizes ecological processes.]]> https://landezine.com/parco-della-pace-triggering-processes-rather-than-demanding-results/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/seeing-the-ground-we-stand-on/ https://landezine.com/seeing-the-ground-we-stand-on/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:22:32 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=130431 Kristoffer Holm Pedersen of SLA writes about how architecture media sidelines landscape and urban design. As climate and biodiversity crises intensify, he argues the issue is not just visibility but value, and whether image-driven platforms can host slow, systemic, ecological design.]]> https://landezine.com/seeing-the-ground-we-stand-on/feed/ 2 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/world-heritage-at-risk-a-conversation-with-mechtild-rossler/ https://landezine.com/world-heritage-at-risk-a-conversation-with-mechtild-rossler/#respond Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:42:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=130053 Robert Schäfer and Urška Škerl speak to Mechtild Rössler about the evolving World Heritage Convention. They discuss the defining threat of climate change, the imbalance of the World Heritage List, and how landscape architecture—through "sponge city" concepts—can protect global heritage.]]> https://landezine.com/world-heritage-at-risk-a-conversation-with-mechtild-rossler/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-stubborn-artifact-adaptive-reuse-and-the-case-for-design-surplus/ https://landezine.com/the-stubborn-artifact-adaptive-reuse-and-the-case-for-design-surplus/#respond Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:18:21 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=130098 This text examines adaptive reuse not as an ecological strategy, but as a condition of misfit between material persistence and use. It argues that productive surplus emerges when past and present functions remain simultaneously legible, forcing users to negotiate meaning, norms, and use within a low-resolution landscape.]]> https://landezine.com/the-stubborn-artifact-adaptive-reuse-and-the-case-for-design-surplus/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/airports-decomissioned-and-innovative-grounds/ https://landezine.com/airports-decomissioned-and-innovative-grounds/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:41:41 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=129753 Air traffic has undergone significant changes since it became available to a wider population. The commercialisation of air travel, supported by reduced costs and technological development, increased the size of passenger terminals and the overall footprint of airports, driving urban and infrastructural transformation. At the same time, the life cycle of an airport is unpredictable, […]]]> https://landezine.com/airports-decomissioned-and-innovative-grounds/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/wildness-in-the-heart-of-the-city-jubileumsparken/ https://landezine.com/wildness-in-the-heart-of-the-city-jubileumsparken/#respond Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:37:33 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=129880 I was invited by Mareld to contribute a text on their project Jubileumsparken to the book Wildness in the Heart of the City. To write it, I travelled to Gothenburg and stayed for several days in a hotel located directly on the site. Over those days the park kept changing. From a crowded, sunlit weekend […]]]> https://landezine.com/wildness-in-the-heart-of-the-city-jubileumsparken/feed/ 0 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/oil-landscapes-in-transition-permanent-frontiers/ https://landezine.com/oil-landscapes-in-transition-permanent-frontiers/#respond Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:47:09 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=129028 Despite local initiatives to preserve industrial heritage and Ravenna’s iconic skyline, the Hamon towers, featured in Red Desert were demolished to make way for a government-supported photovoltaic power plant. Is demolition justified and have the Hamon towers, and what they stand for in the film, contributed to their demolition as part of a corporate profile-changing gesture?]]> https://landezine.com/oil-landscapes-in-transition-permanent-frontiers/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/thomas-woltz-all-constraints-inspire-creativity/ https://landezine.com/thomas-woltz-all-constraints-inspire-creativity/#respond Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:59:48 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=128421 We spoke with Thomas Woltz about landscape architecture as a fusion of art, science, history, and long-term stewardship, and about the institutional, political, and ecological forces that shape public space.]]> https://landezine.com/thomas-woltz-all-constraints-inspire-creativity/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/2025-year-in-review-most-read-projects-on-landezine/ https://landezine.com/2025-year-in-review-most-read-projects-on-landezine/#respond Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:14:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=128697 Each year, projects enter Landezine at different moments and remain visible for different lengths of time. Comparing their performance is therefore difficult. Some have circulated for almost a year, others for only a few weeks. Some projects’ visibility was boosted by our editorial hand. Cumulative pageviews would privilege older projects, while comparing raw early views […]]]> https://landezine.com/2025-year-in-review-most-read-projects-on-landezine/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/2025-year-in-review-most-read-articles-on-landezine/ https://landezine.com/2025-year-in-review-most-read-articles-on-landezine/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:23:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=128510 In this year’s analysis, we examined which Featured Articles you read most. Taken together, these most-read articles do not converge on a single theme so much as on a shared ethos. They circle questions of ground and depth, justice and care, theory and practice, aesthetics and ethics, without keeping domains apart.]]> https://landezine.com/2025-year-in-review-most-read-articles-on-landezine/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/ed-wall-landscapes-are-open-ended-entities/ https://landezine.com/ed-wall-landscapes-are-open-ended-entities/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:11:04 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=128405 Ed Wall is Professor of Cities and Landscapes at the University of Greenwich, where he leads the Spatial and Digital Ecologies research centre. He is a Visiting Professor at the Politecnico di Milano and has previously served as Visiting Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and also as City of Vienna Visiting Professor […]]]> https://landezine.com/ed-wall-landscapes-are-open-ended-entities/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/repositioning-biophilic-design/ https://landezine.com/repositioning-biophilic-design/#respond Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:11:10 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=128374 In this article, we turn to Edward O. Wilson’s Biophilia (1984) to argue that biophilic design is central to landscape architecture, yet not as the imitation of natural forms, which has become common in architecture, but in the deeper sense Wilson describes as the “innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes”. Throughout the […]]]> https://landezine.com/repositioning-biophilic-design/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/laura-cipriani-landscapes-of-tomorrow-climate-change-as-a-game/ https://landezine.com/laura-cipriani-landscapes-of-tomorrow-climate-change-as-a-game/#respond Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:52:40 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=128223 Playful Pedagogies: Climate Change as a Game advances play as a mode of teaching and as a way for children and students to engage with landscapes under pressure. Entrapped in existing worlds and unable to let go of the known, how can children and students teach us, or, what would a cow have to say? We must admit it is not easy to shift to such a perspective.]]> https://landezine.com/laura-cipriani-landscapes-of-tomorrow-climate-change-as-a-game/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscape-as-a-catalyst-for-change-by-bd-landscape-architects/ https://landezine.com/landscape-as-a-catalyst-for-change-by-bd-landscape-architects/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:16:30 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=128141 Landscape as a Catalyst for Change presents a cross-section of BD Landscape Architects’ work over the past decade and a half, arranged thematically rather than chronologically. The publication moves through the practice’s core territories—public realm, meanwhile uses, housing, educational landscapes, and community-led projects—before closing with a reflection on the studio’s trajectory and the shifting conditions […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-as-a-catalyst-for-change-by-bd-landscape-architects/feed/ 3 https://landezine.com/navigating-epochs-of-collapse/ https://landezine.com/navigating-epochs-of-collapse/#respond Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:12:45 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=127997 In the article, we outline several contemporary epochal currents which, in a kind of singularity of collapse, may converge in what has been termed the Homogenocene, “a label for the modern world, characterized by unprecedented, and accelerating, flows of people, pests, crops, and forms of political domination”, as Charles Mann describes it, tracing its origins to 1493.]]> https://landezine.com/navigating-epochs-of-collapse/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscapes-voices-community-the-13th-barcelona-biennial/ https://landezine.com/landscapes-voices-community-the-13th-barcelona-biennial/#respond Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:31:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=127877 The International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona is one of the profession’s most important events. The multiple-day program brings together lectures, presentations, and two awards: the Manuel Ribas Piera International School Prize and the Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize. Traditionally, the Biennial followed a tight two-day core: Rosa Barba finalists presenting on […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscapes-voices-community-the-13th-barcelona-biennial/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-contemporary-chinese-urban-landscape-and-public-realm/ https://landezine.com/the-contemporary-chinese-urban-landscape-and-public-realm/#respond Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:28:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=127693 The Chinese public realm must be examined through its own cultural, political, and social logic, rather than through the ideological frameworks derived from the Western and American discourse on the public and public realm.]]> https://landezine.com/the-contemporary-chinese-urban-landscape-and-public-realm/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/sustainability-means-protecting-designed-landscapes-too/ https://landezine.com/sustainability-means-protecting-designed-landscapes-too/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:36:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=127485 Britain is on the verge of compromising one of its most extraordinary designed landscapes. Developers propose to impale Rousham's designed sightlines with tall commercial buildings and three titanic wind turbines. The public can still send comments to Cherwell District Council's planning department before December 26.]]> https://landezine.com/sustainability-means-protecting-designed-landscapes-too/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/see-you-there-barcelona-landscape-biennial-2025/ https://landezine.com/see-you-there-barcelona-landscape-biennial-2025/#respond Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:36:04 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=127107 The Barcelona Landscape Biennial 2025, titled Natural Intelligence, is starting on November 17, reflecting on how to address climate change with landscape as a driving force. The biennial includes the Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Award for the best professional landscape projects, the International Landscape Schools Award, a Theoretical Symposium and an exhibition of the […]]]> https://landezine.com/see-you-there-barcelona-landscape-biennial-2025/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/michiel-van-driessche-felixx-scaling-the-natural-agenda/ https://landezine.com/michiel-van-driessche-felixx-scaling-the-natural-agenda/#respond Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:58:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=127135 The COP30 in Brazil starts today. Felixx developed a catalogue for NBS, presented at COP26. Michiel Van Driessche reflects on the role of landscape architects in global policymaking, and what it means to translate climate goals into tangible strategies — from the Amazon to Groningen.]]> https://landezine.com/michiel-van-driessche-felixx-scaling-the-natural-agenda/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/marc-treib-readings-cinema/ https://landezine.com/marc-treib-readings-cinema/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:35:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=126551 Given such a prolific and formative body of work, the question we posed was simple: what does Treib read when he isn’t writing? What inspires him, and what would he suggest to landscape architects?]]> https://landezine.com/marc-treib-readings-cinema/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/the-anthropocene-disillusion-a-working-title/ https://landezine.com/the-anthropocene-disillusion-a-working-title/#respond Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:02:38 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=127030 The decline of 'ecosystem services' implies a trajectory of increasing dependence on human-engineered substitutes. Zed Nelson's photobook The Anthropocene Illusion shows simulations of experience of nature, mirroring lost ecological functions.]]> https://landezine.com/the-anthropocene-disillusion-a-working-title/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/remembering-dieter-kienast-swiss-landscape-architect/ https://landezine.com/remembering-dieter-kienast-swiss-landscape-architect/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:53:36 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=126830 Dieter Kienast (1945-1998) coined a new generation of landscape architects in encouraging them to adhere to form-driven concepts after the environmental movement and he passed away far too early in 1998 at the age of just 53, at the peak of his career.]]> https://landezine.com/remembering-dieter-kienast-swiss-landscape-architect/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/dieter-kienast-ten-theses-on-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/dieter-kienast-ten-theses-on-landscape-architecture/#respond Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:38:44 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=126835 The Ten Thesis, written in November 1998 by Dieter Kienast, Chair of Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich, were published in Anette Freytag’s The Landscapes of Dieter Kienast (Zurich: gta Verlag, 2020). Thomas Skelton-Robinson translated the Ten Theses for this volume from the last amended version, as published in Dieter Kienast: Die Poetik des Gartens; Über […]]]> https://landezine.com/dieter-kienast-ten-theses-on-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/michael-jakob-landscape-architecture-suffers-from-a-lack-of-self-conscience/ https://landezine.com/michael-jakob-landscape-architecture-suffers-from-a-lack-of-self-conscience/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:40:55 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=126270 "I have always been surprised by this lack of theory — and of history as well. Even prominent colleagues of ours can hardly name five masterworks essential for them ... This means that some professionals work in the field without fully knowing what they do when they claim to practice landscape architecture.”]]> https://landezine.com/michael-jakob-landscape-architecture-suffers-from-a-lack-of-self-conscience/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/streets-from-infrastructures-to-shared-ecologies/ https://landezine.com/streets-from-infrastructures-to-shared-ecologies/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:59:03 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=126671 Streets are possibly the most complex public spaces to design. By definition, they are non-rivalrous and non-exclusive public good, granting accessibility to all. Pedestrians, cyclists, public transport, cars, fire and emergency trucks, deliveries—all stake competing claims on the same limited surface. Streets are designed under the highest constraints, yet must provide for everyone.]]> https://landezine.com/streets-from-infrastructures-to-shared-ecologies/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/how-public-is-private-aesthetics-obligation-and-the-ecology-of-ownership/ https://landezine.com/how-public-is-private-aesthetics-obligation-and-the-ecology-of-ownership/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:54:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=126575 The essay argues that climate collapse pushes ownership into public responsibility and aesthetics into a medium of obligation. Landscape architecture can cultivate perceptual resilience, an ethics of design attuned to disorder, shared accountability, and the mutable nature of life.]]> https://landezine.com/how-public-is-private-aesthetics-obligation-and-the-ecology-of-ownership/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/book-tips-robin-winogrond/ https://landezine.com/book-tips-robin-winogrond/#respond Sat, 18 Oct 2025 07:10:33 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=126495 We asked Robin Winogrond to share which publications she has been reading lately and finds particularly relevant for landscape architects today. Here is her selection:   Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley Under such premises as “to talk about design is to talk about the state of […]]]> https://landezine.com/book-tips-robin-winogrond/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/krater-collective-crafts-biodiversity-by-grazing-hands/ https://landezine.com/krater-collective-crafts-biodiversity-by-grazing-hands/#respond Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:19:34 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125638 The Krater Collective is a group of transdisciplinary artists who have decided to transform their professions, studios and working conditions in order to act as advocates for a self-determined ecosystem in an abandoned construction pit in Ljubljana. In Crafting Biodiversity, they expand over their fenced-off domain.]]> https://landezine.com/krater-collective-crafts-biodiversity-by-grazing-hands/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/ifla-2025-nantes-guiding-landscapes-a-month-later/ https://landezine.com/ifla-2025-nantes-guiding-landscapes-a-month-later/#respond Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:05:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=126202 The news of Kongjian Yu’s sudden death two weeks later sent shockwaves not only through the nearly 1,500 participants of the congress in Nantes, but through the entire landscape architecture community worldwide. Many, myself included, had known him for more than two decades, meeting him at ASLA Annual Meetings, the Barcelona Biennale, the World Architecture Festival, IFLA congresses, and countless other events.]]> https://landezine.com/ifla-2025-nantes-guiding-landscapes-a-month-later/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/marina-cervera-on-the-evolving-barcelona-landscape-biennial-and-its-upcoming-13th-edition/ https://landezine.com/marina-cervera-on-the-evolving-barcelona-landscape-biennial-and-its-upcoming-13th-edition/#respond Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:22:12 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125430 Between 17 and 21 November 2025, the 13th International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona will take place under the motto Natural Intelligence. Since its beginnings in 1999, the Biennial has become one of the most significant international platforms for landscape architecture — a space where practice, research, and education converge. We spoke with Marina Cervera, executive […]]]> https://landezine.com/marina-cervera-on-the-evolving-barcelona-landscape-biennial-and-its-upcoming-13th-edition/feed/ 0 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/jens-linnet-bogl-no-fixed-method-attuned-response/ https://landezine.com/jens-linnet-bogl-no-fixed-method-attuned-response/#respond Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:28:33 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125226 BOGL are the recipients of the 2025 LILA Office Award. They operate from offices in Copenhagen and Oslo with a steady focus on the shared grounds of urban life. Rather than seeking signature forms, the practice has built its reputation on attentiveness — to site conditions, to communities, to the long horizons of climate change, […]]]> https://landezine.com/jens-linnet-bogl-no-fixed-method-attuned-response/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/debra-solomon-multispecies-urbanism/ https://landezine.com/debra-solomon-multispecies-urbanism/#respond Mon, 29 Sep 2025 08:32:35 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125019 Multispecies Urbanism (MU) concept proposes that cities be designed and governed for the multispecies whole. In her manifesto, artist, infrastructure activist, and researcher Debra Solomon argues that healthy urban environments for humans are inseparable from the flourishing of other species and their microbial consortia. MU treats ecological labour—cooling, water buffering, pollination, soil formation—as infrastructural work […]]]> https://landezine.com/debra-solomon-multispecies-urbanism/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/kongjian-yu-1963-2025/ https://landezine.com/kongjian-yu-1963-2025/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:22:31 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125114 We are sad to report that Kongjian Yu died on September 23, 2025. Yu was a farmer’s son from Zhejiang who became the architect of a new ecological urbanism. After early studies in Beijing and a doctorate at Harvard GSD, he returned to China in the late 1990s to found the College of Architecture and […]]]> https://landezine.com/kongjian-yu-1963-2025/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/out-of-hand-on-non-humans-and-non-animals/ https://landezine.com/out-of-hand-on-non-humans-and-non-animals/#respond Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:54:47 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=125024 An essay on how we push animals into playing roles — from fables and films to renders of biodiversity and art — tracing how these projections tame, abstract, or estrange, and how synurbists and artists unsettle the human–animal divide.]]> https://landezine.com/out-of-hand-on-non-humans-and-non-animals/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lois-weinberger-precise-carelessness/ https://landezine.com/lois-weinberger-precise-carelessness/#respond Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:08:37 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=124877 Growing up on a farm in Tyrol, surrounded by repetitions of natural processes to which rituals and traditions attune, Weinberger developed an understanding of the nature–culture relationship observed from the periphery.]]> https://landezine.com/lois-weinberger-precise-carelessness/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/feminism-in-the-wild-how-human-biases-shape-our-understanding-of-animal-behaviour/ https://landezine.com/feminism-in-the-wild-how-human-biases-shape-our-understanding-of-animal-behaviour/#respond Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:00:03 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=124254 Scientific research into animal behaviour still rests on many deeply ingrained assumptions about what is deemed to be “natural” human behaviour. For example, men—males—are assumed by nature to be more dominant and aggressive than women—females. And if men are violent, then the violent behaviour of other male animals in the wild can supposedly be explained […]]]> https://landezine.com/feminism-in-the-wild-how-human-biases-shape-our-understanding-of-animal-behaviour/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/designing-skin-to-skin/ https://landezine.com/designing-skin-to-skin/#respond Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:03:11 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122397 Skin-to-Skin Architecture is about rethinking how we design cities and buildings, not just as objects we use, but as spaces that touch us back. Inspired by the power of skin-to-skin contact in neonatal care, where a caregiver’s touch stabilizes, calms, and connects, we ask: what if our built environment could do the same? In Skin-to-Skin, […]]]> https://landezine.com/designing-skin-to-skin/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/engaged-art-in-public-space-speaking-to-the-city/ https://landezine.com/engaged-art-in-public-space-speaking-to-the-city/#respond Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:23:30 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=123097 In this article, we enter into a conversation with Danilo Milovanović (DNLM), an artist based in Slovenia, whose practice in public space leaves behind socio-political and environmentally engaged commentaries. His interventions open up civic debate and make visible the tensions that shape contemporary urban life. Trained in the visual arts, Milovanović positions his practice outside […]]]> https://landezine.com/engaged-art-in-public-space-speaking-to-the-city/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/hidden-in-olmsteds-shadow-the-brilliant-designer-history-forgot/ https://landezine.com/hidden-in-olmsteds-shadow-the-brilliant-designer-history-forgot/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:10:52 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122427 It was 2 AM, and I was still scrolling through thousands of digitized drawings in the Olmsted archive on Flickr. Six hours in, my avocado toast sat half-eaten, but I couldn’t pull myself away. These hand-drawn plans were so much more alive than the sterile digital renderings that I have gotten so used to seeing […]]]> https://landezine.com/hidden-in-olmsteds-shadow-the-brilliant-designer-history-forgot/feed/ 5 https://landezine.com/expanding-landscape-set-and-surplus/ https://landezine.com/expanding-landscape-set-and-surplus/#respond Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:10:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122166 I have spent the last two weeks conducting field research at a large music festival located in the interior of Portugal. Every day, I would wake up in my tiny tent and walk into a stunning landscape. Walking around the grounds of the festival every morning was my favorite activity, indulging in the lake around […]]]> https://landezine.com/expanding-landscape-set-and-surplus/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/healing-landscapes-designing-with-empathy-in-the-shadows-of-trauma/ https://landezine.com/healing-landscapes-designing-with-empathy-in-the-shadows-of-trauma/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:38:47 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121980 Mental health disorders such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and paranoid schizophrenia affect masses of people worldwide. These conditions not only challenge individuals but also deeply affect their relatives and communities. While clinical treatments remain essential, there is increasing recognition of the therapeutic role landscapes can play in supporting mental health recovery. Historically, nature […]]]> https://landezine.com/healing-landscapes-designing-with-empathy-in-the-shadows-of-trauma/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/finding-mary-miss/ https://landezine.com/finding-mary-miss/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:01:49 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121779 On a mild evening last April, Room 304 in Pratt Institute’s architecture school, Higgins Hall—an oddly grandiose double-height classroom space with a view of the Manhattan skyline—is packed. The Landscape Seminar Series—launched in 2022 in conjunction with Pratt’s Master of Landscape Architecture program—has invited the iconic land artist and activist Mary Miss to speak as […]]]> https://landezine.com/finding-mary-miss/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/tempelhofer-feld-winning-proposals-prioritize-preservation-over-construction-yet-the-pressure-continues/ https://landezine.com/tempelhofer-feld-winning-proposals-prioritize-preservation-over-construction-yet-the-pressure-continues/#respond Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:20:44 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=122021 Tempelhofer Feld, one of Europe’s largest urban open spaces, has long been a focal point of debate, particularly since its closure as an airport in 2008. Over the years, the site has sparked public protests, legal disputes, and heated discussions about its future. Now, after a highly anticipated international competition, the winning proposals have been […]]]> https://landezine.com/tempelhofer-feld-winning-proposals-prioritize-preservation-over-construction-yet-the-pressure-continues/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/territories-of-extraction-mapping-palimpsests-of-appropriation/ https://landezine.com/territories-of-extraction-mapping-palimpsests-of-appropriation/#respond Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:41:44 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121755 How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? 1. Introduction In his book Norrland, journalist Po Tidholm opens with a poem that captures a long-standing reality: northern Sweden has long been a site of resource extraction— iron […]]]> https://landezine.com/territories-of-extraction-mapping-palimpsests-of-appropriation/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/generation-alpha-trapped-between-two-worlds-can-landscape-come-to-the-rescue/ https://landezine.com/generation-alpha-trapped-between-two-worlds-can-landscape-come-to-the-rescue/#respond Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:28:29 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121382 As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of what was formerly called ‘the European Landscape Convention’ spare a thought for upcoming generations: Generation Z and especially Generation Alpha are having a difficult time. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place, between the perils of the real world and the dangers of life in […]]]> https://landezine.com/generation-alpha-trapped-between-two-worlds-can-landscape-come-to-the-rescue/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/straub-thurmayr-horizon-of-understanding/ https://landezine.com/straub-thurmayr-horizon-of-understanding/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:05:14 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=121362 Anna Thurmayr and Dietmar Straub, operating from Winnipeg, Canada, approach landscape architecture less as a matter of monumental authorship and more as a form of quiet insurgency. Their practice resists spectacle, embracing instead small yet resonant gestures, collective processes, and deep attentiveness to context—whether planting 20,000 crocuses into a lawn or constructing an ephemeral Snow […]]]> https://landezine.com/straub-thurmayr-horizon-of-understanding/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/bap-2025-by-agence-ter-we-the-climate/ https://landezine.com/bap-2025-by-agence-ter-we-the-climate/#respond Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:54:20 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120949 The 2025 edition of the Biennale d’Architecture et de Paysage (BAP!) is taking place in Versailles from May 7 to July 13. This third edition, titled “The Living City”, focuses on preserving life in all its forms amidst climate disruption and dwindling resources. It aims to open new perspectives and sharing of knowledge and innovation […]]]> https://landezine.com/bap-2025-by-agence-ter-we-the-climate/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lucia-tozzi-human-desertification-in-competing-cities/ https://landezine.com/lucia-tozzi-human-desertification-in-competing-cities/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:43:59 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120666 Lucia Tozzi is a Milano-based journalist and urban researcher known for her incisive critiques of gentrification, tourism-driven development, and the commodification of public space. Her writing spans cultural criticism, investigative reporting, and political analysis, appearing in publications such as Il Tascabile, NERO, Altreconomia, il manifesto, and other journals. She is the editor and author of […]]]> https://landezine.com/lucia-tozzi-human-desertification-in-competing-cities/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/anette-freytag-academia-can-and-must-reach-the-public/ https://landezine.com/anette-freytag-academia-can-and-must-reach-the-public/#comments Thu, 29 May 2025 07:48:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120693 Dr. Anette Freytag is a relentless researcher, moving between academia, activism, and public engagement. She taught at ETH Zurich, the University of Basel, and the Technical University of Innsbruck before joining Rutgers University, where she is the Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape Architecture at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Freytag […]]]> https://landezine.com/anette-freytag-academia-can-and-must-reach-the-public/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/de-demonising-fire-designing-with-disturbance/ https://landezine.com/de-demonising-fire-designing-with-disturbance/#respond Mon, 26 May 2025 10:17:49 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120532 The volume On the Side of Fire. Rites, approaches and cultivation practices in landscapes is the twenty-first edition in the “Memorie” series by the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche (FBSR), a Treviso-based international centre for landscape studies and research, founded by Luciano Benetton in 1987, focusing on history, geography, natural and cultural heritage. Opening space for […]]]> https://landezine.com/de-demonising-fire-designing-with-disturbance/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landezine-awarded-plecnik-medal-for-enrichment-of-spatial-culture/ https://landezine.com/landezine-awarded-plecnik-medal-for-enrichment-of-spatial-culture/#respond Tue, 20 May 2025 13:37:53 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=120449 The Plečnik Awards are among the highest national recognitions for works realised in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism in Slovenia. Each year, the Jože Plečnik Fund acknowledges outstanding contributions in the categories of Public Space, Large Scale Realisations, Small Scale Realisations, Professional Publications, and Enrichment of Spatial Culture — the latter being the category in […]]]> https://landezine.com/landezine-awarded-plecnik-medal-for-enrichment-of-spatial-culture/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/on-designing-just-urban-waterfronts/ https://landezine.com/on-designing-just-urban-waterfronts/#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 09:16:35 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119899 Despite ambitious sustainability frameworks, current modes of urban waterfront redevelopment tend to reinforce existing or create new socio-spatial divides in the city. Although the projects regard urban water as a public good, it is oftentimes the most privileged groups that get to enjoy the improved environmental amenities and reap their benefits, at the expense of […]]]> https://landezine.com/on-designing-just-urban-waterfronts/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/soil-contains-social-relations-and-its-our-external-gut-thinking-through-soil-by-seth-denizen/ https://landezine.com/soil-contains-social-relations-and-its-our-external-gut-thinking-through-soil-by-seth-denizen/#respond Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:14:40 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119741 The book, Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley, by Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen, came out last week, published by Harvard University Design Press. It is an enormous study, partly conducted through the Thinking Through Soil studio course at the GSD, Department of Landscape Architecture, and with the help of the […]]]> https://landezine.com/soil-contains-social-relations-and-its-our-external-gut-thinking-through-soil-by-seth-denizen/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/pleasure-gardens-self-actualization/ https://landezine.com/pleasure-gardens-self-actualization/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:09:45 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119761 The first parks open to the public in Western society date back to the late 18th century, with the Englischer Garten in Munich (1789), named by the renowned Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, followed by Maksimir Park in Zagreb (1794). Birkenhead Park, described as a “People’s Garden” by Olmsted and designed by Joseph Paxton in Liverpool […]]]> https://landezine.com/pleasure-gardens-self-actualization/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/retreat-as-approach-landscapes-of-retreat-by-rosetta-s-elkin/ https://landezine.com/retreat-as-approach-landscapes-of-retreat-by-rosetta-s-elkin/#respond Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:32:07 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119636 Landscapes of Retreat, a book by Rosetta S. Elkin, is informed by land-based practice, observation, and paying close attention to the multifaceted changes occurring in landscapes and their impact on communities. The second edition of this award-winning book (originally published in 2022), which gained considerable attention within the landscape architecture community, has been released this […]]]> https://landezine.com/retreat-as-approach-landscapes-of-retreat-by-rosetta-s-elkin/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/edible-earth-with-dr-masharu/ https://landezine.com/edible-earth-with-dr-masharu/#respond Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:25:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119442 Soil is a strange soup of minerals, organic matter, gases and liquids, bound to mediate between lower and higher strata. While one can think of soil eating as bizarre, one can also imagine taking minerals in a form of a pill and why one wouldn’t eat forest soil or soils outside polluted areas? It gives […]]]> https://landezine.com/edible-earth-with-dr-masharu/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/being-hyper-aware-cobe/ https://landezine.com/being-hyper-aware-cobe/#respond Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:45:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119409 Cobe is on the side of the “progressives” in the profession, working at one of the most urban-eco-technologically progressive centres worldwide, Copenhagen in Denmark. Their merging of cross-disciplinary work into a “meaningful whole”, creating interfaces at different scales of contact, pushing the boundaries of engagement – from the threshold of their office, into the neighbouring […]]]> https://landezine.com/being-hyper-aware-cobe/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/too-dirty-to-enter-on-passporting-traceability/ https://landezine.com/too-dirty-to-enter-on-passporting-traceability/#respond Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:41:16 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=119302 In December this year, the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation will start to apply to medium and large operators and traders. For micro and small enterprises, the same rules will apply next year. This means that if a commodity, such as cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soya, rubber, or wood, and products derived from those commodities, […]]]> https://landezine.com/too-dirty-to-enter-on-passporting-traceability/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/base-our-work-lies-on-freedom-of-spirit/ https://landezine.com/base-our-work-lies-on-freedom-of-spirit/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:02:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117986 BASE is a France-based studio known for its out-of-the-box thinking and unexpected design choices, often introducing challenges that can be overcome through play. Encountering an obstacle in a public space—one that invites engagement and risk-taking—creates a tension that can lead to moments of joyful liberation. A key aspect of BASE’s approach is putting trust in […]]]> https://landezine.com/base-our-work-lies-on-freedom-of-spirit/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/soak-it-up-with-charles-a-birnbaum/ https://landezine.com/soak-it-up-with-charles-a-birnbaum/#respond Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:49:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=118045 Soak It Up: Combating Climate Change with Landscape Architecture is a global summit organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a Washington, D.C.-based education and advocacy non-profit, addressing biodiversity loss, climate change, and social inequities. TCLF’s information-rich website offers in-depth research, critical analysis of threatened landscapes, and a comprehensive database of shared cultural landscape heritage […]]]> https://landezine.com/soak-it-up-with-charles-a-birnbaum/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/disaster-preventive-parks-japans-coastal-forests/ https://landezine.com/disaster-preventive-parks-japans-coastal-forests/#respond Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:08:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117736 Mnemosyne walks on a Forest Wall What if rural areas took center stage in the movement for resilient, secure communities—getting the same attention as urban environments? What if seawalls and groynes weren’t just lifeless barriers but thriving ecosystems, forests, walking routes for storytelling, art trails and canvases for culture and nature? The growing impact of […]]]> https://landezine.com/disaster-preventive-parks-japans-coastal-forests/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/modalities-modulations-models-cobe/ https://landezine.com/modalities-modulations-models-cobe/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:38:18 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117894 In this next episode of our series on models as a key tool for communication and exploration, we present the Danish office Cobe, renowned for its terrain and object modulations. The undulating landscapes and folded facades create a dynamic interplay of convex and concave forms, shaping both the skyline and the experience of space with […]]]> https://landezine.com/modalities-modulations-models-cobe/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/from-grey-infrastructure-to-green-socialstructure/ https://landezine.com/from-grey-infrastructure-to-green-socialstructure/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:40:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117805 Converting grey infrastructure into green socialstructure leads to more inclusive, adaptable, and environmentally resilient public spaces that serve both ecological and social functions. The benefits extend beyond aesthetics – these transformations drive economic growth, improve public health, and mitigate the effects of climate change. So, the real question is not whether cities can do this. The question is: Why aren’t they?]]> https://landezine.com/from-grey-infrastructure-to-green-socialstructure/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/streetlife-design-competition-finalists-announced/ https://landezine.com/streetlife-design-competition-finalists-announced/#respond Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:55:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117784 The Jury of the Streetlife Design Competition, organized by Landezine in partnership with Streetlife, the Dutch urban furnicher designers, selected ten finalists. The winners will be announced at the award ceremony on March 28, which will take place in Leiden, Netherlands, where the finalists will present their work. The works of students and young professionals […]]]> https://landezine.com/streetlife-design-competition-finalists-announced/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/building-trust-an-interview-with-andrew-grant/ https://landezine.com/building-trust-an-interview-with-andrew-grant/#respond Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:49:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117565 Andrew Grant founded his practice, Grant Associates in 1997, which grew into an international design studio with offices in Bath and Singapore. His most significant work, Gardens by the Bay, won the Building Project of the Year Award at the 2012 World Architecture Festival and continues to be one of the most visited places designed […]]]> https://landezine.com/building-trust-an-interview-with-andrew-grant/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/forest-urbanisms-new-non-human-and-human-ecologies-for-the-21st-century-by-bruno-de-meulder-and-kelly-shannon/ https://landezine.com/forest-urbanisms-new-non-human-and-human-ecologies-for-the-21st-century-by-bruno-de-meulder-and-kelly-shannon/#respond Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:48:20 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117386 The book Forest Urbanisms brings together underlying ideas, the concept of forest urbanism, and global practices and research that engage with forests through a critical and nuanced lens. Using the world is forest as the guiding principle, the authors put the forest in a central role of the spatial organization across regions, scales and quantities – from a solitary tree to an interplay of buildings and trees. This expanding notion of forest expects new morphologies and typologies of forest urbanism. The authors open the controversies regarding humankind's relations to forests and offer thinking tools past the greenwashing paradigms.]]> https://landezine.com/forest-urbanisms-new-non-human-and-human-ecologies-for-the-21st-century-by-bruno-de-meulder-and-kelly-shannon/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/m-paul-friedberg-1931-2025/ https://landezine.com/m-paul-friedberg-1931-2025/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:21 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117286 We share the news of the passing of a highly influential landscape architect. His extensive body of work will continue to inspire and leave a lasting impact. Our condolences go out to his family, friends, and colleagues. Born in New York City, M. Paul Friedberg earned a B.S. in 1954 in ornamental horticulture at Cornell […]]]> https://landezine.com/m-paul-friedberg-1931-2025/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/responding-to-the-land-the-landscape-studio/ https://landezine.com/responding-to-the-land-the-landscape-studio/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:16:22 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=117071 The interview with Chloe and Michael Humphreys focuses on the work of The Landscape Studio. They began working in Nairobi in 2014 and in the years, their practice produced numerous private and public projects across Africa, that in essence and with minimal material means, embody the beauty of the locality. Embracing constraints is their design […]]]> https://landezine.com/responding-to-the-land-the-landscape-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/battlefield-by-gabriella-hirst/ https://landezine.com/battlefield-by-gabriella-hirst/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:13:52 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116980 Battlefield project started when artist Gabriella Hirst discovered a rose cultivar named after the WWI battle in France in 1916, the ‘Hell of Verdun’. The act of commemorating the loss of 300,000 lives by cultivating the plant, made Gabriella think of ways the plants unknowingly contribute to shaping narratives of war and destruction. Since 2013, […]]]> https://landezine.com/battlefield-by-gabriella-hirst/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/forest-typologies/ https://landezine.com/forest-typologies/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:57:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116948 Forests are ecosystems, usually acknowledged as spaces with the least human intervention, however, not many of us have been in touch with a virgin forest and its feralness. For most, forest means recreational or urban woods in the vicinity where we stroll and unwind or a mountain forest where we hike or climb. People growing […]]]> https://landezine.com/forest-typologies/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/invisible-infrastructures-putting-landscape-architecture-on-the-moon/ https://landezine.com/invisible-infrastructures-putting-landscape-architecture-on-the-moon/#comments Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:36:36 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116567 The landscape architecture profession, young as it seems, is backed up by a long line of planners, practitioners, and academics, connected in chambers, networks and local contexts. However, landscape architecture still sees a problem with the profession’s visibility. This is contrary to Susan and Geoffrey Jelicoe’s prediction in 1975 that: “the world is moving into […]]]> https://landezine.com/invisible-infrastructures-putting-landscape-architecture-on-the-moon/feed/ 1 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/futures-of-the-river-by-landscape-architects-reimagining-birrarung/ https://landezine.com/futures-of-the-river-by-landscape-architects-reimagining-birrarung/#respond Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:22:23 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116309 At a moment when another “inanimate natural entity”, the Taranaki Maunga, a mountain in New Zealand, is granted personhood, The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne, Australia, is holding an exhibition, Reimagining Birrarung, Design Concepts for 2070, on the future of Yarra River, it’s catchment area and people, envisioned by landscape architects. The exhibition […]]]> https://landezine.com/futures-of-the-river-by-landscape-architects-reimagining-birrarung/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/taking-root/ https://landezine.com/taking-root/#respond Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:25:04 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=116344 The inaugural lecture, given by Joost Emmerik when he assumed his position as Head of Landscape at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2022. The text particularly excels in embedding doubt into the teaching process. It is the doubt about nature, our entanglement with it, and the values and politics that drive the design process. It is about passing knowledge to others and questioning it meanwhile - a much more pertinent and productive teaching paradigm for times of uncertainties and change.]]> https://landezine.com/taking-root/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/kamel-louafis-arabesques/ https://landezine.com/kamel-louafis-arabesques/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:25:21 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115685 Kamel Louafi is a landscape architect with a touch of classic grandiose. His work is instilled with a perennial feel that abides by the expressive tools of the visual art theory yet includes a strong design voice of personal poetics. The difference Kamel Louafi creates, the un-anonymity of his work could be even marked as […]]]> https://landezine.com/kamel-louafis-arabesques/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/if-its-green-its-good-modern-urban-ecology-by-del-tredici/ https://landezine.com/if-its-green-its-good-modern-urban-ecology-by-del-tredici/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:36:37 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115794 Del Tredici’s argument is that these spontaneous plants are “de facto native urban flora” considering the novel conditions produced by humans. It is an argument against perceiving spontaneous vegetation including invasive, non-native plants and plants considered as weeds, to be less worthy. Labelling a plant “invasive” or “weed”, says Del Tredici, gives people the licence to blame it for ruining the environment and to get rid of it.]]> https://landezine.com/if-its-green-its-good-modern-urban-ecology-by-del-tredici/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/daniel-ganz-landscape-architecture-is-independent/ https://landezine.com/daniel-ganz-landscape-architecture-is-independent/#respond Mon, 20 Jan 2025 09:54:50 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115605 Daniel Ganz is a founder of a renowned office based in Zurich, Ganz Landschaftsarchitekten, whose work received many recognitions by opening the field into diverse directions resulting in unusual designs. In 2021, the monograph Ganz – Contemporary Swiss Landscape Architecture was published, presenting the reader with 10 works outlined by key themes like pleasure, labour, […]]]> https://landezine.com/daniel-ganz-landscape-architecture-is-independent/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/alexis-sanal-on-ordinary-utopias/ https://landezine.com/alexis-sanal-on-ordinary-utopias/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:08:03 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=115091 "The tool is trying to counter the friction of power and reposition power as cooperation and co-creation early on to generate mature design briefs from the get-go. And that the process of participating for all parties is not a drudgery of boredom, frustrations and resulting anger or dismissal of feedback loops" ]]> https://landezine.com/alexis-sanal-on-ordinary-utopias/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/landscape-as-a-common-field-landscape-research-group/ https://landezine.com/landscape-as-a-common-field-landscape-research-group/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:31:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114917 Landscape Research Group (LRG) is a long-standing international and interdisciplinary community founded in England in 1967, dedicated to advancing landscape research. Landscape is a field of interest for many professionals, including geographers, archaeologists, ecologists, lawyers, urban planners, landscape architects and others, whose work can be reciprocally informed by sharing research and practices.  LRG is a […]]]> https://landezine.com/landscape-as-a-common-field-landscape-research-group/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/california-is-burning-rethinking-the-wildland-suburban-interface/ https://landezine.com/california-is-burning-rethinking-the-wildland-suburban-interface/#comments Wed, 08 Jan 2025 07:19:00 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=39816 This article by Kelly Shannon and Donielle Kaufman was first published on 9 January 2018. With the recent fires around Los Angeles, we are bringing it into focus again in early 2025 as it sheds light on processes and hidden corners of the context that brought about California's 'wildfire epidemic'.]]> https://landezine.com/california-is-burning-rethinking-the-wildland-suburban-interface/feed/ 1 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/the-gardens-of-la-gara-by-anette-freytag/ https://landezine.com/the-gardens-of-la-gara-by-anette-freytag/#respond Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:53:06 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=114717 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-gardens-of-la-gara-by-anette-freytag/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/a-braid-of-reparations-reflections-on-keller-easterlings-atttnt/ https://landezine.com/a-braid-of-reparations-reflections-on-keller-easterlings-atttnt/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:13:56 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113699 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, […]]]> https://landezine.com/a-braid-of-reparations-reflections-on-keller-easterlings-atttnt/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/culture-of-artifacts-postnatural-by-richard-pell/ https://landezine.com/culture-of-artifacts-postnatural-by-richard-pell/#respond Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:29:42 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113761 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/culture-of-artifacts-postnatural-by-richard-pell/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/how-not-to-build-tempelhofer-feld/ https://landezine.com/how-not-to-build-tempelhofer-feld/#comments Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:23:16 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113980 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/how-not-to-build-tempelhofer-feld/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/deep-landscape/ https://landezine.com/deep-landscape/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:08:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113789 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.]]> https://landezine.com/deep-landscape/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/the-dutch-landscape-by-alexandra-tisma-han-lorzing/ https://landezine.com/the-dutch-landscape-by-alexandra-tisma-han-lorzing/#respond Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:05:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113398 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 – […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-dutch-landscape-by-alexandra-tisma-han-lorzing/feed/ 0 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/shaping-discourse-reflections-on-the-isup-symposium-and-the-value-of-professional-symposia/ https://landezine.com/shaping-discourse-reflections-on-the-isup-symposium-and-the-value-of-professional-symposia/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:52:22 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113426 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/shaping-discourse-reflections-on-the-isup-symposium-and-the-value-of-professional-symposia/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landscapism-in-nature-conservation/ https://landezine.com/landscapism-in-nature-conservation/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:26:57 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113241 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.]]> https://landezine.com/landscapism-in-nature-conservation/feed/ 4 https://landezine.com/codesigning-hope-aqueous-landscapes-in-transition-by-laura-cipriani/ https://landezine.com/codesigning-hope-aqueous-landscapes-in-transition-by-laura-cipriani/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:03:39 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112902 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. […]]]> https://landezine.com/codesigning-hope-aqueous-landscapes-in-transition-by-laura-cipriani/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/designing-for-people-with-bad-intentions/ https://landezine.com/designing-for-people-with-bad-intentions/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:42:08 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=106498 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/designing-for-people-with-bad-intentions/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/charged-landscapes-nuclear-chronicles-by-andrew-madl/ https://landezine.com/charged-landscapes-nuclear-chronicles-by-andrew-madl/#respond Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:29:25 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=113146 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/charged-landscapes-nuclear-chronicles-by-andrew-madl/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/ https://landezine.com/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/#respond Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:00:08 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112035 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.]]> https://landezine.com/liam-young-half-earth-planet-city/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/ https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:31:22 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112385 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/wild-playgrounds/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/garden-and-metaphor-essays-on-the-essence-of-the-garden/ https://landezine.com/garden-and-metaphor-essays-on-the-essence-of-the-garden/#respond Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:22:15 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=112104 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/garden-and-metaphor-essays-on-the-essence-of-the-garden/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lausanne-jardins-2024/ https://landezine.com/lausanne-jardins-2024/#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2024 11:59:17 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111845 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. ]]> https://landezine.com/lausanne-jardins-2024/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/book-tips-gary-hilderbrand/ https://landezine.com/book-tips-gary-hilderbrand/#respond Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:47:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111820 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/book-tips-gary-hilderbrand/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/sara-eichner-on-public-and-data-through-design/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 07:33:43 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=111401 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 […]]]> 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/gary-hilderbrand-the-world-is-too-cacophonous-and-i-think-its-in-our-power-to-calm-a-place/ https://landezine.com/gary-hilderbrand-the-world-is-too-cacophonous-and-i-think-its-in-our-power-to-calm-a-place/#comments Sat, 14 Sep 2024 21:01:52 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=110536 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/gary-hilderbrand-the-world-is-too-cacophonous-and-i-think-its-in-our-power-to-calm-a-place/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/under-the-bridge/ https://landezine.com/under-the-bridge/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:41:01 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=109483 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 […]]]> https://landezine.com/under-the-bridge/feed/ 4 https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-trees-and-beasts-or-how-ideas-of-nature-shape-our-spaces/ https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-trees-and-beasts-or-how-ideas-of-nature-shape-our-spaces/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:07:58 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108627 “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. […]]]> https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-trees-and-beasts-or-how-ideas-of-nature-shape-our-spaces/feed/ 5 https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-ethics-and-design-with-nature-debunking-ian-mcharg/ https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-ethics-and-design-with-nature-debunking-ian-mcharg/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:06:19 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108472 In the conversation with the landscape architecture professor, artist and writer Denise Hoffman Brandt, we speak about the morality issues attached to “doing good” while debunking Ian McHarg’s problematic position in Design with Nature. In the conversation, Brandt points out how our assumptions about nature shape our actions, why stewardship is problematic and what landscape […]]]> https://landezine.com/denise-hoffman-brandt-on-ethics-and-design-with-nature-debunking-ian-mcharg/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lila-2024-recognitions-announced/ https://landezine.com/lila-2024-recognitions-announced/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:11:26 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=108488 Members of the LILA 2024 Jury, Catherine Mosbach, Joost Emmerik, Lilli Lička, Lisa Diedrich, and Zaš Brezar selected projects for the 9th edition of LILA. Editors of Landezine selected the LILA Honour Award, LILA Office Award and LILA Portfolio Award. Landezine congratulates all the recognized practices and thanks the members of the jury, all participants […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-2024-recognitions-announced/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/dan-kiley-exhibition-interview-with-charles-birnbaum-tclf/ https://landezine.com/dan-kiley-exhibition-interview-with-charles-birnbaum-tclf/#respond Fri, 31 May 2024 08:01:02 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=107684 Charles Birnbaum is the CEO and founder of TCLF—The Cultural Landscape Foundation. In his work, he is a fearless advocate and activist for significant American landscape architecture sites. He was honored as a 2020 LILA Honour Award Winner for initiating and developing TCLF for over 25 years with an “innovative vision, executed with great precision, […]]]> https://landezine.com/dan-kiley-exhibition-interview-with-charles-birnbaum-tclf/feed/ 0 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/circles-disks-and-rings/ https://landezine.com/circles-disks-and-rings/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:36:25 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=105586 Observed as a recurring phenomenon in nature and universally interpreted, the circle stands as a fundamental geometric shape. It symbolizes various concepts such as infinity and unity, among others. In constructed environments, the focal or central point of a circle can be represented by a tree as the axis mundi, a fire pit or an […]]]> https://landezine.com/circles-disks-and-rings/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/the-novel-city-faux-nature-maze/ https://landezine.com/the-novel-city-faux-nature-maze/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:42:53 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104755 When we speak of Nature in cities, the question we want to stress is, is nature in cities natural or in fact an artefact? When we speak of natural processes, they of course take place but apart from spontaneous nature, left to random succession, emerging in spaces that Gilles Clément calls the third landscapes, there […]]]> https://landezine.com/the-novel-city-faux-nature-maze/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/ https://landezine.com/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/#comments Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:40:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104001 HPO is an art and event-architecture group from Ferrara. Their work has been, among other venues, presented at Milan Design Week and 18. Venice Biennale. In the interview, we discuss the marginal position, DIY, incomplete architecture and the importance of play.]]> https://landezine.com/hpo-on-temporary-and-incomplete/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/ https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/#respond Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:49:13 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=103907 Landezine talks to Andre Dekker, who, together with Ruud Reutelingsperger, Lieven Poutsma and Geert van de Camp, forms a public art collective Observatorium. In the video, Dekker gives a 30-minute-long presentation of some of Observatorium’s most recent and most important works. Their artworks traverse the realms of urban planning, landscape design, architectural innovation, and artistic […]]]> https://landezine.com/observatorium-public-art-for-public-spaces/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/tim-waterman-on-astronauts-lsd-and-landscape-architecture-lecture-qa/ https://landezine.com/tim-waterman-on-astronauts-lsd-and-landscape-architecture-lecture-qa/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:22:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=104366 Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory and Inter-Programme Collaboration Director at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He is Chair of the Landscape Research Group (LRG), a Non-Executive Director of the digital arts collective Furtherfield, and an advisor to the Centre for Landscape Democracy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is also […]]]> https://landezine.com/tim-waterman-on-astronauts-lsd-and-landscape-architecture-lecture-qa/feed/ 0 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/strategies-against-sameness-2/ https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-2/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:28:27 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=101444 We continue with French philosopher Michel Foucault. In his 1967 speech to an architecture audience, he introduced the concept of "heterotopia". It was published in 1984 as an essay, Des Espaces Autres (Of Other Spaces), and it deals with the nature of space and its relation to society. Heterotopias are unique spatial entities that challenge conventional notions of space and compel reflection on the social, cultural, and ideological matters of our world.]]> https://landezine.com/strategies-against-sameness-2/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/interview-with-gunther-vogt-ecology-is-invisible/ https://landezine.com/interview-with-gunther-vogt-ecology-is-invisible/#respond Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:35:23 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=101256 Günther Vogt probably needs no introduction in our profession; he has been an important practitioner for a couple of decades now, appreciated globally for his rich, non-linear and adventurous design approach. Initially, his education was more in the direction of botany. He later shifted to landscape architecture by studying in Rapperswil, Switzerland. After his study […]]]> https://landezine.com/interview-with-gunther-vogt-ecology-is-invisible/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lets-talk-about-sustainability/ https://landezine.com/lets-talk-about-sustainability/#comments Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:44:24 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=101169 Today’s most urgent topic for all professional groups everywhere must be how to give our planet and its inhabitants possibilities to survive. Never before has the professional field of landscape architects shifted its goals so quickly, as we have seen only over the last few years. The focus for landscape architecture nowadays is clearly sustainability. […]]]> https://landezine.com/lets-talk-about-sustainability/feed/ 3 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/claude-cormier-1960-2023/ https://landezine.com/claude-cormier-1960-2023/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:59:24 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=99133 It is with sadness that we learned about the passing of renowned Canadian landscape architect Claude Cormier. In 1995, he established Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagistes in Montreal and, in nearly three decades, received a plethora of awards for his work, both in Canada and internationally. At Landezine, we featured a selection of projects by his […]]]> https://landezine.com/claude-cormier-1960-2023/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/biourbanism-cities-as-nature-a-resilience-model-for-anthromes-adrian-mcgregor/ https://landezine.com/biourbanism-cities-as-nature-a-resilience-model-for-anthromes-adrian-mcgregor/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:42:26 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=98729 It is exciting to read “Blue Skies”, the new novel by T.C.Boyle, and at the same time to dedicate oneself to the opulent work of Adrian McGregor. While Boyle’s protagonists in Florida and California are at the mercy of the manifold violent effects of climate change and the reader abandons all hope after reading, the […]]]> https://landezine.com/biourbanism-cities-as-nature-a-resilience-model-for-anthromes-adrian-mcgregor/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/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/artificial-intelligence-generative-design-and-landscape-architecture/ https://landezine.com/artificial-intelligence-generative-design-and-landscape-architecture/#respond Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:38:00 +0000 https://landezine.com/?p=96055 The AI services embedded in tools for creative profiles are developing so rapidly that this article will definitely be outdated by 6 pm tomorrow. Last year we featured a piece on Midjourney and similar platforms, and it already reads like Grandpas discussing ‘the internets’ back in the 90s. I suppose enchantment by civilisation’s technological advances […]]]> https://landezine.com/artificial-intelligence-generative-design-and-landscape-architecture/feed/ 0 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/winners-of-streetlife-design-competition-announced/ https://landezine.com/winners-of-streetlife-design-competition-announced/#respond Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:30:52 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=88727 We are delighted to let you know that the competition Streetlife organized together with Landezine reached its grand finale this past weekend! Nearly 200 guests and participants gathered in a beautiful Hooglandse Church in Leiden, Netherlands. The 12 finalist teams presented their projects, and the six recognitions were announced. See the winning projects on streetlifedesigncompetition.com […]]]> https://landezine.com/winners-of-streetlife-design-competition-announced/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/second-glance-6th-lae-landscape-architecture-europe-edition-prof-dr-lisa-babette-diedrich/ https://landezine.com/second-glance-6th-lae-landscape-architecture-europe-edition-prof-dr-lisa-babette-diedrich/#respond Tue, 07 Feb 2023 07:37:38 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=84182 We are focusing on one of the most influential landscape architecture platforms; LAE – Landscape Architecture Europe. For nearly 20 years, the triennial book has been bringing a complex multilayered reflection on the most interesting recent European projects. Prof. Dr. Dipl. -Ing. Lisa Diedrich presents the last edition titled Second Glance. She also presents the editorial […]]]> https://landezine.com/second-glance-6th-lae-landscape-architecture-europe-edition-prof-dr-lisa-babette-diedrich/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/interview-leon-van-geest-rotterdam-rooftop-days/ https://landezine.com/interview-leon-van-geest-rotterdam-rooftop-days/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:05:41 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=83410 Rotterdam Rooftop Days (Rotterdamse Dakendagen) is an annual festival that promotes rooftop living and emphasises the potential of roofs in mitigating issues of public space, empowering communities, reducing urban heat, increasing urban biodiversity, urban food production etc. It features Knowledge Day, Rotterdam Rooftop Walk, various cultural events and, most importantly, establishes a network of permanently […]]]> https://landezine.com/interview-leon-van-geest-rotterdam-rooftop-days/feed/ 1 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/river-aire-in-process-a-visual-and-written-critique-by-rhys-williams/ https://landezine.com/river-aire-in-process-a-visual-and-written-critique-by-rhys-williams/#respond Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:23:08 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=80299 Rhys Williams is a lecturer at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, The University of Edinburgh, UK

website: www.seenotherwise.me]]> https://landezine.com/river-aire-in-process-a-visual-and-written-critique-by-rhys-williams/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/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/interview-with-jenny-osuldsen-of-snohetta-lila-2021-honour-award-winner/ https://landezine.com/interview-with-jenny-osuldsen-of-snohetta-lila-2021-honour-award-winner/#respond Thu, 26 May 2022 16:21:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79767 Jenny Osuldsen is one of the directors at Snøhetta, a multidisciplinary office that works between architecture, landscape and graphic design. The LILA Honour Award 2021 celebrates Snøhetta for its trans-disciplinary approach to the design process and, specifically, the ability to merge thinking about landscape and architecture. The results are often precious urban moments that host […]]]> https://landezine.com/interview-with-jenny-osuldsen-of-snohetta-lila-2021-honour-award-winner/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 https://landezine.com/design-for-forest/ https://landezine.com/design-for-forest/#respond Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:52:39 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=67837 Every landscape architect should be well-aware of the role of forests both in environmental and social sense. Forests are dark and seem wild, so clearings feel liberating and secure. Visibility is low which makes forest misterious or even terrifying. One can get lost pretty quickly, so paths are of paramount importance. For landscape architects forests may be attractive as there are more tools for playing with the natural light and volumes.]]> https://landezine.com/design-for-forest/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lila-2021-gepke-heun-and-lodewijk-van-nieuwenhuijze-present-hns-winning-project/ https://landezine.com/lila-2021-gepke-heun-and-lodewijk-van-nieuwenhuijze-present-hns-winning-project/#respond Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:43:59 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=67217 The winner of the LILA 2021 infrastructure category is Area development Ooijen-Wanssum in the Netherlands by H+N+S Landscape Architects. H+N+S already won LILA 2017 Office Award and we frequently feature their works. In the Ooijen-Wanssum project, H+N+S have, in their very own Dutch way, invented a new dike typology – innovative terrain modelling for more […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-2021-gepke-heun-and-lodewijk-van-nieuwenhuijze-present-hns-winning-project/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lila-2021-joao-nunes-of-proap-presents-the-winning-quays-of-the-river-schelde/ https://landezine.com/lila-2021-joao-nunes-of-proap-presents-the-winning-quays-of-the-river-schelde/#respond Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:56:55 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=66929 João Nunes is the general coordinator of PROAP, an internationally recognized landscape architecture firm with offices in Portugal, Italy and Angola. In the video, Nunes describes the development of PROAP in the past 25 years and then presents their LILA 2021 winning project: Quays of the River Schelde in Antwerp. The project won (ex-aequo) the […]]]> https://landezine.com/lila-2021-joao-nunes-of-proap-presents-the-winning-quays-of-the-river-schelde/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/designing-little-island-interview-with-signe-nielsen-of-mnla/ https://landezine.com/designing-little-island-interview-with-signe-nielsen-of-mnla/#respond Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:15:19 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=64031 I recently had a wonderful opportunity to talk to Signe Nielsen of MNLA about the many challenges and joys of designing the landscape for Little Island – an entirely constructed landscape that opened less than a month ago in NYC. We will soon publish more on the project, but first, you are kindly invited to […]]]> https://landezine.com/designing-little-island-interview-with-signe-nielsen-of-mnla/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/a-great-tree-has-fallen/ https://landezine.com/a-great-tree-has-fallen/#respond Sat, 22 May 2021 15:13:56 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=62505 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, 1921 - 2021]]> https://landezine.com/a-great-tree-has-fallen/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/creative-infidelities/ https://landezine.com/creative-infidelities/#respond Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:29:38 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=36240 Creative Infidelities. On the Landscape Architecture of Topotek 1. Edited by Barbara Steiner. 440 pages. Jovis Verlag. Berlin 2016 ISBN 978-3-86859-418-8 ]]> https://landezine.com/creative-infidelities/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/landezine-talks-martin-rein-cano-on-influence-of-the-corona-pandemic-on-work/ https://landezine.com/landezine-talks-martin-rein-cano-on-influence-of-the-corona-pandemic-on-work/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2020 07:49:13 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=50785 Today, 23 April, Robin Winogrond (Studio Vulkan), Martin Rein-Cano (Topotek 1) and Zaš Brezar (Landezine) were supposed to meet for a public discussion in Berlin. For the obvious reasons, the event was postponed. Instead, we are releasing this new podcast, where Zaš Brezar and Martin Rein-Cano are discussing the effects of Coronavirus pandemic on work […]]]> https://landezine.com/landezine-talks-martin-rein-cano-on-influence-of-the-corona-pandemic-on-work/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/10-notions-on-landscape-architecture-thorbjorn-andersson/ https://landezine.com/10-notions-on-landscape-architecture-thorbjorn-andersson/#comments Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:36:07 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=48121 Thorbjörn Andersson was speaking in City Museum in Ljubljana, Slovenia on May 7th, 2019.]]> https://landezine.com/10-notions-on-landscape-architecture-thorbjorn-andersson/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/landezine-lecture-wagon-landscaping/ https://landezine.com/landezine-lecture-wagon-landscaping/#comments Mon, 06 May 2019 12:36:01 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=45197 The Lecture was recorded on 4.4.2019 at the Department for Landscape Architecture, Biotechnical Faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia]]> https://landezine.com/landezine-lecture-wagon-landscaping/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/elger-blitz-of-carve/ https://landezine.com/elger-blitz-of-carve/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:36:12 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=45108 Carve is a Dutch group of designers and landscape architects focused in playgrounds. Their work spans over more than two decades and can be found in various other places, Hong Kong, Singapore, Istanbul … Their projects are site-specific objects and playscapes that offer various different uses. We met Elger Blitz, director of Carve in their […]]]> https://landezine.com/elger-blitz-of-carve/feed/ 2 https://landezine.com/landezine-visits-bureau-bb/ https://landezine.com/landezine-visits-bureau-bb/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:41:28 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=44710 Recorded in Amsterdam in November of 2018.]]> https://landezine.com/landezine-visits-bureau-bb/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/liam-young-unknown-fields/ https://landezine.com/liam-young-unknown-fields/#respond Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:23:08 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=44668 Liam Young is together with Kate Davies running the Unknown Fields project. They travel around the world and explore landscapes behind objects we used on a daily basis: materials for our phones, fabrics for clothes, lithium for batteries … We caught Liam in Ljubljana, where he was narrating Unknown Fields film live.  ]]> https://landezine.com/liam-young-unknown-fields/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/fourth-dimension-of-space/ https://landezine.com/fourth-dimension-of-space/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:02:00 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=44113 Matej Blenkuš, MSc (Aalto), is Associate Professor and Dean of Faculty for Architecture, University of Ljubljana ]]> https://landezine.com/fourth-dimension-of-space/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/landezine-visits-karres-en-brands/ https://landezine.com/landezine-visits-karres-en-brands/#respond Tue, 12 Feb 2019 07:05:54 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=43435 Landezine visited Karres+Brands in their new gorgeous studio in Hilversum, Netherlands on November 2nd, 2018. You can see their projects on Landezine or on their homepage.    ]]> https://landezine.com/landezine-visits-karres-en-brands/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/lecture-catherine-mosbach-of-mosbach-paysagistes/ https://landezine.com/lecture-catherine-mosbach-of-mosbach-paysagistes/#respond Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:34:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79750 This lecture was recorded at the 4th Landezine LIVE at HafenCity university in Hamburg on 13 October 2018. ]]> https://landezine.com/lecture-catherine-mosbach-of-mosbach-paysagistes/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lecture-chloe-humphreys-of-the-landscape-studio/ https://landezine.com/lecture-chloe-humphreys-of-the-landscape-studio/#respond Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:16:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79742 Recorded at the 4th Landezine LIVE at HafenCity university in Hamburg on 13 October 2018.]]> https://landezine.com/lecture-chloe-humphreys-of-the-landscape-studio/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lecture-georges-descombes-at-landezine-live/ https://landezine.com/lecture-georges-descombes-at-landezine-live/#respond Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:41:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79726 Georges Descombes is a renowned Swiss architect and landscape architect. At the third Landezine LIVE event, titled ‘Read/Write Landscape’ he presented his poetic project Renaturalisation of River l’Aire near Geneva that offers a practical example of how to deepen our thinking about the environment and our role in changing it. To a question “What is […]]]> https://landezine.com/lecture-georges-descombes-at-landezine-live/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lecture-shane-coen-of-coen-partners/ https://landezine.com/lecture-shane-coen-of-coen-partners/#respond Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:10:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79738 Shane Coen presented the LILA 2018 winning project and also other important projects from their portfolio. Se their projects on Landezine here. See their LILA winning project Lake Marion Private Retreat]]> https://landezine.com/lecture-shane-coen-of-coen-partners/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/ana-kucan-versailles-lespace-infini/ https://landezine.com/ana-kucan-versailles-lespace-infini/#respond Sun, 08 Oct 2017 16:50:10 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=39061 Photographs have been taken at the gardens of Versailles, on February 2015. They accompany the Slovenian translation of the tiny but marvellous book Portret srečnega človeka - André le Nôtre 1613–1700 (Portrait d'un home heureux - André le Nôtre 1613–1700), translated from French by Zoja Skušek, *cf., 2016, written by a renown French author Érik Orsenna, who, among other things, for five years presided L’ École nationale supérieure du paysage at Versailles.]]> https://landezine.com/ana-kucan-versailles-lespace-infini/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/climate-changed-waters-unsettled/ https://landezine.com/climate-changed-waters-unsettled/#comments Sun, 08 Oct 2017 16:35:43 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=38949 During all the media coverage—particularly in the United States—of Hurricanes Harvey (Category 4, 17 August-1 September), Irma (Category 5, 30 August-12 September), Jose (Category 4, 5-22 September) and Maria (Category 5, 16-30 September), the flooding and subsequent trail of destruction in Houston and southeast Texas, South Florida and the Caribbean, there was ceaseless talk of […]]]> https://landezine.com/climate-changed-waters-unsettled/feed/ 1 https://landezine.com/lecture-hank-van-tilborg-of-hns-landscape-architects-at-landezine-live/ https://landezine.com/lecture-hank-van-tilborg-of-hns-landscape-architects-at-landezine-live/#respond Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:37:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79722 H+N+S introduces Hank van Tilborg (1972), who has been working at H+N+S since 2006 and became a partner and member of the management team in 2011. His expertise lies in making strong conceptual designs and their translation into sensitive, detailed plans. Hank writes and publishes work on a regular basis and was a member of […]]]> https://landezine.com/lecture-hank-van-tilborg-of-hns-landscape-architects-at-landezine-live/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lecture-olivier-philippe-of-agence-ter-at-landezine-live/ https://landezine.com/lecture-olivier-philippe-of-agence-ter-at-landezine-live/#respond Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:31:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79718 After being raised both in Paris and India, Olivier Philippe studied landscape design at the ‘Ecole Supérieure d’Architecture des Jardins et des Paysages ‘ after which he joined the ‘École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts’ in Paris. He later graduated as a landscape architect from the ‘École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles ‘ (ENSP). His […]]]> https://landezine.com/lecture-olivier-philippe-of-agence-ter-at-landezine-live/feed/ 0 https://landezine.com/lecture-luc-wallays-of-omgeving-at-landezine-live/ https://landezine.com/lecture-luc-wallays-of-omgeving-at-landezine-live/#respond Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:19:00 +0000 http://landezine.com/?p=79709 OMGEVING won LILA Landezine International Landscape Award 2017, Public Choice Award in ‘office’ category. Luc Wallays, director of OMGEVING presented their projects at Landezine LIVE, September 29th, 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia]]> https://landezine.com/lecture-luc-wallays-of-omgeving-at-landezine-live/feed/ 0