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Skier’s team hired the Miami-based landscape architect Raymond Jungles, FASLA, winner of the 2024 ASLA Design Medal, to craft a vision for a restored coastal ecosystem that could serve the foundation’s education and advocacy missions. Jungles brings an obvious passion for repopulating species often decimated by commercial developments.
On Design - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Landscape Architecture Magazine covers the wide range of design by landscape architects written by award-winning journalists. More than parks, landscape architecture is woven into cities, neighborhoods, and rural places in projects large and small. Below is a sample of some of the best feature articles on design that have appeared recently.
About Us - Landscape Architecture Magazine
About Us. Founded in 1910, Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) is the monthly magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). It is the magazine of record for the landscape architecture profession in North America, reaching more than 60,000 readers who plan and design projects valued at more than $140 billion each year.
The Wright Way - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Dec 15, 2021 · By Joann Greco. Photo courtesy Bayer Landscape Architecture. Daylilies and phlox are thriving along the terrace with the pergola in the background . Darwin and Isabelle Martin were getting tired of waiting. “We want a garden,” Darwin wrote to their architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, late in 1903. “We do not want the whole thing a lawn.”.
To The Core - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Oct 29, 2020 · Core City Park is the product of a collaboration between Julie Bargmann’s D.I.R.T. Studio and a local developer, Philip Kafka, the founder and president of Prince Concepts. Bargmann, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, met Kafka in Detroit, and they immediately identified a kinship in using a landscape-first approach for development that ...
The Story Beneath Our Feet - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Jul 31, 2018 · Uncovering historic pavements reveals each city’s “urban fingerprint.” By Zach Mortice Vitrified brick in Cincinnati. Image courtesy Robin Williams. In the past 200 years, cities have become larger, safer, and healthier places to live, but there’s one arena of urban infrastructure that has become incalculably more monotonous and denuded: the range and diversity of pavement types on ...
On Climate - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Landscape architects have been working on issues of sustainability and resiliency for the last century. Reporting on projects and approaches to sea-level rise, extreme drought, urban heat islands, flooding, and wildfires has raised public awareness of the vital work landscape architects are doing to help communities adapt to climate change.
Awards - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee, provides respite while reflecting on the long history of racial injustice. Once a city dump on the Mississippi waterfront, Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee, is now a landmark park. The design provides downtown Memphis with a destination playground, water features, hammocks, art installations, new climate-adaptive trees and native shrubs, and a restored ...
The Metasequoia Mystery - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Jan 19, 2016 · The 1940s discovery in China of the dawn redwood, a living fossil, remains in shadows cast by war, political upheaval, and scholarly intrigue. By Kyna Rubin On a clear August day in 2002, Ma Jinshuang, a botanist, struck gold. At the bottom of a cabinet in a dark, moist, long-abandoned herbarium in Nanjing, perched unprotected.
2016 - Landscape Architecture Magazine
By Zach Mortice. The abandoned Michigan Central Station in Detroit. Image courtesy of Zach Mortice. In a city beset by a nearly incomparable foreclosure crisis and 20 square miles of vacant land, there’s been a growing understanding that landscape architecture and Detroit are perfect for each other. But in 2017, the city will unveil a handful ...