Landscape Architecture Magazine

07/22/2024

Mary Miss has filed an injunction against the Des Moines Art Center to protect her work.

Read on LAM Online: https://bit.ly/3LBpzVo

Images:
1. Mary Miss, pictured in her New York City studio, says the museum did not consult with her on plans for demolition. Photo © Lila Barth.
2. A model shows the extent of the artwork, which was conceived as commentary on the disappearance of wetlands. Photo © Mary Miss, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
3. Mary Miss’s Greenwood Pond: Double Site, seen here in 2014, is now at the center of a lawsuit. Photo © Judith Eastburn, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.

07/18/2024

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07/15/2024

A new resilience plan for Butte, Montana, is built on bipartisan community support.

A new resilience plan for Butte, Montana, is built on bipartisan community support. By Kylie Mohr Climate change is no stranger to Butte, Montana. In the summer, wildfire smoke can shroud the city, where 11 percent of people have asthma. In the winter, a paltry snowpack can reduce the flow of import...

07/01/2024

JULY ISSUE: WASTE NOT

On the cover: A fragment of Bridgefoot Street Park, by Dermot Foley Landscape Architects, in Dublin.

06/26/2024

With a new lynching memorial in Fort Worth, DesignJones continues to create landscapes of racial reconciliation. https://bit.ly/4eIf6F5

With a new lynching memorial in Fort Worth, DesignJones continues to create landscapes of racial reconciliation. By James Russell Fred Rouse was hanged from a hackberry tree north of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, on December 11, 1921. Not until local organizers and activists dug into his history did R...

06/15/2024

Check out our latest Gift Guide! Updated and expanded for new grads, with more tech, more cult books, and a few surprising must-haves for the newly minted designer.

Updated and expanded for new grads, with more tech, more cult books, and a few surprising must-haves for the newly minted designer. By the LAM Editorial Advisory Committee* Well, it’s finally happened. You (or your family member/friend/roommate/mentee/colleague) have graduated from a landscape arc...

06/14/2024

In “Lot Logic,” an applied research project in Buenos Aires brings fresh eyes to urban vacancy.

Read on LAM Online: https://bit.ly/3XqO8vg

An applied research project in Buenos Aires brings fresh eyes to urban vacancy. By Jimena Martignoni In Argentina, an urban vacant lot is referred to as baldío. Derived from the Arabic term bāṭilah, meaning “vain, valueless, or uncultivated,” this is also the name of an experimental project ...

06/07/2024

In "Estate on the Edge," Vizcaya Museum in Miami has weathered many storms, and its landscape staff works to prepare for the next hurricane.

Read more on LAM Online:

Miami’s Vizcaya Museum and Gardens recovers from design drift in the face of rising seas. By Kelly Enright When the chief horticulturist Ian Simpkins began work at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami in 2007, he faced many challenges. As a public park, it had been more managed than preserved, ...

06/03/2024

Duluth’s Lincoln Park preps for a $25 million RAISE grant, with help from Damon Farber Landscape Architects.

Read more on LAM Online: https://bit.ly/3Rdnz97

Image: On-street bicycle lanes will be replaced with detached bike paths. The improvements propose separating pedestrian uses from bikeways / Damon Farber Landscape Architects

05/31/2024

JUNE ISSUE: RUNNING WATER ~ Herbert Dreiseitl's fluid thinking

On the cover: A river model at the studio of DREISEITLconsulting in Überlingen, Germany.

Also in the issue: A reckoning in Texas by DesignJones LLC; why Walter Kehm walked off the job; a review of 30 trees and why landscape architects love them; the winner of the challenge, and more.

05/28/2024

More Woonerfs For Philadelphia. BKV Group connects a new development with an old idea.

BKV Group connects a new development with an old idea. "We have a lot of owners who want to immediately establish where private property is and boundaries, put up fences and things. This is the exact opposite. They don’t want anyone to be able to know where public stops and private begins. They wa...

05/23/2024

Toronto’s cold-savvy planners adapt the city to hotter summers. https://bit.ly/4dLH8yZ

Illustration by Meg Studer

Toronto’s cold-savvy planners adapt the city to hotter summers. By Sam Bloch Illustration by Meg Studer When cities plan to mitigate extreme heat, many draw from a now-familiar playbook—more trees, more reflective surfaces, and more air-conditioning. In Toronto, city officials are exploring a di...

05/20/2024

Seferian Design Group undoes years of additions and urban encroachment at a historic green space.

On LAM Online: Decluttering The Park by Zach Mortice https://bit.ly/3wM9zft

Images:
1. Waterloo Park’s new approach to Silver Lake brings visitors to the water with a terraced fountain and a sloping, accessible path. Image by McNeil Photography.
2. Seferian Design Group’s plan called for naturalized bioswales lining the edge of Silver Lake. Image by Seferian Design Group.

05/16/2024

A hotel in the shadow of a national park blends in.

On LAM online: For a New View of Utah, TRUEFORM Camps Out https://bit.ly/3UMYSRS

05/16/2024

In "Skate The City" by Katharine Logan, a new strategy for public space planning takes the stops off small-wheeled sports.

A new strategy for public space planning takes the stops off small-wheeled sports. By Katharine Logan There’s no question that skateboarding gets a bad rap. The National Safety Council ranks it safer than baseball—not to mention hockey and football—but it’s perceived as risky. Noise from ska...

04/25/2024

An expanding range of projects caps a year of milestones at Mikyoung Kim Design.

Read "Where We Get Stronger" by Kim O'Connell in the April issue of LAM, free to access during World Landscape Architecture Month. https://bit.ly/4b88wF6

Images:
1. Mikyoung Kim, FASLA, helms what she calls an "ethical practice," one that combines social responsibility, scientific research, and empathy / Nile Scott Studios
2. Heejung Shin and Alek De Mott, project designers at the firm, talk through a model / Maggie Hall Photography
3. Circulation and free-form play areas were essential for the Main 11 roof garden at Boston Children's Hospital / Robert Benson
4. MYKD designed Helix Park to be like an emerald necklace for the city of Houston, combining civic and recreational spaces with sustainable measures / Ayala Vargus
5. The design for the Chicago Botanic Garden includes mound areas for free play / Kate Joyce

04/21/2024

No longer just for coastal areas, WEDG 3.0 adds inland waterfronts to its certification.

On LAM Online: Coming To A Shoreline Near You by Clare Jacobson https://bit.ly/3xJPV3O

No longer just for coastal areas, WEDG 3.0 adds inland waterfronts to its certification. By Clare Jacobson In October 2023, the New York–based nonprofit Waterfront Alliance launched version 3.0 of its Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines (WEDG) and revised its WEDG Professionals Course, which the gro...

04/19/2024

On a leftover site in Punta Pite, landscape architect Teresa Moller’s house is a study in give and take.

On LAM Online: A Certain Sacrifice by Jimena Martignoni. Photography by Cristóbal Palma. https://bit.ly/3UowI0r

On a leftover site in Punta Pite, landscape architect Teresa Moller’s house is a study in give and take. By Jimena Martignoni/Photography by Cristóbal Palma Nestled into steep cliffs that face the Pacific Coast of Chile, the landscape architect Teresa Moller’s house combines a small-scale rewil...

04/11/2024

A High Line at the Minnesota Zoo by TEN x TEN

Transforming a defunct monorail into an elevated trail was an exercise in creative friction.

Read "A View To The Zoo" by Timothy A. Schuler on LAM Online: https://bit.ly/3W05WNj and in our April issue, free to access all month long for World Landscape Architecture Month: https://bit.ly/49gJMcl

Images
1. TEN x TEN’s vision for the trail treats the former monorail as part of the cultural landscape. Photo by Corey Gaffer Photography LLC.
2. Rest points, seen here in the middle ground, were inspired by the logic and visual language of monorail track design. Photo by Corey Gaffer Photography LLC.

04/04/2024

Hoboken, New Jersey, invests in success with its resiliency parks designed by Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners.

Read more in our April issue - free to access all month for World Landscape Architecture Month: https://bit.ly/49gJMcl

Image Credit: Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners. With pickleball courts and a playground, the second phase of Hoboken’s Southwest Resiliency Park complements its more civic predecessor.

04/02/2024

In honor of World Landscape Architecture Month, the entire April digital issue of LAM is available for FREE, and you can access it here: https://bit.ly/49gJMcl

Explore the latest trends, projects, and insights shaping the world of landscape architecture.



On the cover: On the cover: Hardscape at the Wishingstone Garden at Boston Children’s Hospital by mikyoung kim design

03/28/2024

APRIL ISSUE: MYKD

With 30 years at the helm, Mikyoung Kim looks ahead.

On the cover: Hardscape at the Wishingstone Garden at Boston Children’s Hospital by Mikyoung Kim Design

03/21/2024

A soapstone quarry in Maryland with Indigenous roots is set to become an archaeological park.

A soapstone quarry with Indigenous roots is set to become an archaeological park. By Kim O’Connell Four thousand years ago, if you were working with a stone mallet, it would be steady but relatively quick work to carve a soapstone boulder into a medium-sized bowl. With stone chipping off with ever...

03/16/2024

MARCH ISSUE: MAIN COURSE

On the cover: The Watercourse at Daybreak in South Jordan, Utah, by LOCI.

Also in the issue: Strategies to slow down floodwaters in Virginia, new tools for calculating carbon, an Indigenous soapstone quarry will become an educational park, and using bananas to help fight fires. Plus, new designs for capturing and moving water, an aquatic network that delivers recreational needs and stormwater infrastructure, an artful compendium of nature printing, a book review by Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, landscape architects discuss retention through transparency in project budgets and contracts, and more~

03/15/2024

LAM is a finalist for four 2024 Jesse H. Neal Awards!

🌟 Best Profile: "Range Rover" by Jessica Bridger, April 2023, featuring Sarah Cowles, ASLA, and Ruderal, the Tbilisi, Georgia-based firm she founded.
🌟 Best Cover: June 2023
🌟 Best Overall Art Direction and Design, Brand Revenue of Less than $3,000,000
🌟 Best Award Coverage: 2023 ASLA Awards and Redesign

Wish us luck for the upcoming winners announcement on April 26 in NYC! View all the finalists here: https://bit.ly/4csAdtU

03/14/2024

We're *thrilled* to have our June 2023 cover selected as a finalist for the ASME Best Cover contest. Please show your support for LAM and the profession by voting and sharing widely: https://bit.ly/49TZYRY

Cover collage is by Max Dickson of OLIN Labs

03/08/2024

With the biennial Oberlander Prize in hand, Turenscape’s Kongjian Yu, FASLA, wants to expand the global profile of landscape architecture.

On LAM Online: The Sponge Evangelist by Stephen Zacks https://bit.ly/43aYzUt

02/23/2024

Cleveland’s DERU Landscape Architecture sees big stories in small spaces.

On LAM online: Star Tracks by Zach Mortice https://bit.ly/3uLWodn

Photography by Amber N. Ford

Images
1: On the left: A 19th-century map of the Underground Railroad in Ohio. Image courtesy Western Reserve Historical Society. On the right: At the Cozad-Bates House, a quote from Harriet Tubman is placed to rise above the stormwaters.
2: A plaza with interpretive signage attracts visitors from the sidewalk.
3: The plantings in the bioswale are dense and messy, an interpretation of what former slaves seeking freedom might have encountered as they crept through marshland and across rivers.
4: Brass stars outline the constellations that freedom-seekers used to navigate northward.

02/19/2024

In "Prickly Desires," Anjulie Rao reviews The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade, by Jared D. Margulies. https://bit.ly/3wcsUWn

02/12/2024

With "Ghost Rivers," designer Bruce Willen calls attention to Baltimore’s buried streams.

On LAM online: A River Remembered by Timothy A. Schuler https://bit.ly/3SEU8MS

📷: "Ghost Rivers" memorializes Sumwalt Run, a stream in Baltimore that was buried in the early 20th century. Image © Public Mechanics.