HOW SWEET
From the January 2013 issue of LAM: By Daniel Jost, ASLA It’s 80 degrees Fahrenheit, or, as they say here in Toronto, a balmy 27 degrees. Stephanie McCarthy leans back in a white Adirondack chair and...
View ArticleTHE GREAT EXCHANGE
The Panelists (clockwise from top left): Jeff Hou, ASLA; Zhifang Wang; Kongjian Yu, FASLA; Ron Henderson, FASLA; Frederick R. Steiner, FASLA; Binyi Liu, Honorary ASLA; Chuo Li; Daniel Jost, ASLA; Jie...
View ArticleFAMOUS FOUNTAINS JOIN REGISTER
Lovejoy Fountain, Courtesy Portland Parks & Recreation The Portland Open Space Sequence, completed between 1966 and 1970, includes two of the most famous landscapes of the modern era—Lovejoy Plaza...
View ArticleTHE FEARLESS GRADY CLAY
Few journalists have had a greater impact on the field of landscape architecture than Grady Clay, Honorary ASLA, who died on Sunday at the age of 96. He was the editor of this magazine for nearly a...
View ArticleRICH HAAG OWES HIS LIFE TO A TREE
“Say Manure!” -Rich Haag.(Photo by Daniel Jost) AUSTIN, TEXAS—The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture conference began on Wednesday with a rousing and hilarious rant by Richard Haag, the...
View ArticleJOHN STILGOE READS VOGUE
AUSTIN, TEXAS—As landscape architecture educators socialized Thursday evening with Lone Star beer, whiskey, and wine, conversations frequently returned to that day’s speech by the landscape historian...
View ArticleSTOSS’S WINNING SYRACUSE STREET
All images courtesy STOSS landscape urbanism A playful proposal by STOSS landscape urbanism with Höweler + Yoon Architecture, Nitsch Engineering, and Angie Cradock ScD, MPE has won the Movement on Main...
View ArticleISTANBUL’S AWFUL PLANS
The plans for Taksim Square released last Fall by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality The bloody protests in Turkey aren’t just about urban design, but it was a plan to redesign Taksim Square that...
View ArticleA GARDEN BEHIND BARS
From the November 2013 issue of LAM: Outdoor classrooms take shape at the Iowa Correctional Institute for Women. Credit: Bob Elbert. After a long day of building at the Iowa Correctional Institution...
View ArticleRICHARD HAAG’S MANY CAUSES
Rich Haag with a clump of Equisetum, one of his favorite plants. Photo: Daniel Jost. On a recent tour of the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island, Washington, Richard Haag, FASLA, told a group of us,...
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