ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, AUGUST 8
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. From “Desert Promenade” in the August 2019 issue by Timothy Schuler, about the rechannelization of a canal in...
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The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. From “Tunnel Vision” in the August 2019 issue by Gweneth Leigh, ASLA, about a behemoth coal bunker in Sydney...
View ArticleONE FISH, MORE FISH
BY JARED BREY FROM THE AUGUST 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. The underbelly of an eastern brook trout, especially when it is spawning, is orange and pink like a sunrise, and its back...
View ArticleSEPTEMBER LAM: DEEP INQUIRY
FOREGROUND Where Are We Sitting? (Interview) Thaïsa Way, FASLA, the new director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, wants to push the profession’s history in new directions. A Merger...
View ArticlePOWER PLAY 2050
BY MICHAEL DUMIAK This week, LAM is joining more than 250 media outlets for Covering Climate Now, flooding the zone, as it were, with climate coverage in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Action...
View ArticleTHE RISING TIDEWATER
BY BRETT ANDERSON / PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAHAR COSTON-HARDY, AFFILIATE ASLA This week, LAM is joining more than 250 media outlets for Covering Climate Now, flooding the zone, as it were, with climate...
View ArticleTAKING THE WIND OUT OF WILDFIRE
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER This week, LAM is joining more than 250 media outlets for Covering Climate Now, flooding the zone, as it were, with climate coverage in the run-up to the United Nations Climate...
View ArticleTWICE BITTEN
BY JARED BREY This week, LAM is joining more than 250 media outlets for Covering Climate Now, flooding the zone, as it were, with climate coverage in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Action...
View ArticleNO US AND THEM
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of translated articles, please click here. BY JARED BREY...
View ArticleCRISIS ACTORS
BY SARAH COWLES FROM THE DECEMBER 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. In the early 1920s, leaders of the Soviet Union had a communication problem: how to relay the abstract and complex...
View ArticlePETER WALKER’S POINT
BY GWENETH LEIGH, ASLA The Barangaroo Reserve transforms Sydney Harbour’s old industrial landscape. FROM THE NOVEMBER 2016 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. When I was a child growing up in...
View ArticleSQUARE DANCE
BY JONATHAN LERNER A new central plaza in Fort Worth reveals the advantages of—and anxieties about—privately developed public places. FROM THE FEBRUARY 2016 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE....
View ArticleA STEP INTO NEW STRATA
BY ZACH MORTICE The Kua Bay Residence is a simple pitched roof pavilion that works as an enticing collector of ocean views. Photo by Marion Brenner, Affiliate ASLA. More than half of the world’s...
View ArticleNOVEMBER LAM: DROUGHT & DELUGE
Click to view slideshow. FOREGROUND Get with the Program (Tech) As workflow patterns change, designers are diversifying in the types of software they rely on, a recent survey of landscape architects...
View ArticleA NEW URBANISM, PLUCKED FROM THE GARDEN
BY NATE BERG A view of the park’s two lakes, with the city in the distance. Photo courtesy Bundesgartenschau Heilbronn. An urban-scale garden exhibition in Germany became an opportunity to re-envision...
View ArticleFOUND SCENERY
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of translated articles, please click here. BY JENNIFER...
View ArticleFLOODS THAT KNOW NO BOUNDS
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of translated articles, please click here. BY LISA OWENS...
View ArticleART DIRECTOR’S CUT, NOVEMBER 19
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. Photo by Stephen Dunn. From “Look to the Sky” in the November 2019 issue by Haniya Rae, about a New Mexico...
View ArticleDECEMBER LAM: AT THE WATER’S EDGE
Click to view slideshow. FOREGROUND Bona Fide BIM (Tech) Legal considerations regarding liability and ownership of intellectual property are emerging for firms that use building information modeling....
View ArticleTHE WATER YOU CAN’T SEE
BY KOFI BOONE, ASLA A civic hydrology park emerges on Duke University’s campus. FROM THE DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. Having lived in Durham, North Carolina, for more than a...
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