By Damian Holmes, on May 3rd, 2010
Ecological Urbanism book launch will be on the night of May 3 at Back Yard 6:30pm – 8:30pm
While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed. The premise of the book is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a [...]
By Damian Holmes, on March 23rd, 2010
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the selection of veteran journalist Bradford McKee as the new Editor-in-Chief for Landscape Architecture magazine, the landscape architecture profession’s national magazine of record [...]
By Damian Holmes, on November 27th, 2009
Edinburgh College of Art is delighted to launch Vision, a major new publication about its current and future research projects in the creative disciplines.
A lavishly illustrated book, Vision includes focus features on the College’s current research groups as well as profiles of over 100 staff and their ‘visions’ of future research developments.
With the aim of [...]
By Damian Holmes, on September 4th, 2009
We will be adding book reviews as a regular new feature to World Landscape Architect.
The book I reviewed is Composing Landscapes by Clemens Steenbergen.
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By Damian Holmes, on September 1st, 2009
Daniel Tal is a registered landscape architect and member of ASLA with over 10 years experience and has recently written a book on Sketchup, the easy to use 3D modeling program that has given students and design firms an affordable way to produce 3D renderings for projects. Daniel has been using Sketchup since the [...]
By Damian Holmes, on July 23rd, 2009
Zahid Sardar, Chronicle Staff Writer interviews Andrea Cochran about her body of work and her new book
“I felt liberated in this climate to experiment with things I could not have done back East,” says the landscape architect, who arrived in San Francisco in the 1980s from New England.
To read the full interview go to SFgate: [...]
By Damian Holmes, on July 22nd, 2009
Andrew Spiering of Land8Lounge writes
Tim Waterman has published a new book, The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture, that he hopes will illuminate, “the meaning of the profession,” to the general public, young students looking for a career path, and professionals from other disciplines. This might be the perfect gift for those people that continually fail to [...]
By Damian Holmes, on July 16th, 2009
NYTimes.com reports
Inspired by the 2005 floods, Dilip da Cunha and his wife, Anuradha Mathur, who teach design and landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, have spent the last two and a half years studying Mumbai and its uneasy relationship with water. They recently released their findings and 12 proposals for making the city more [...]