Landscape Architecture Magazine

10/30/2025

In downtown Ketchum, BYLA Landscape Architects transformed a sliver of land beside a busy highway into a shaded micro-landscape that captures the spirit of Idaho’s high-mountain pastures.

The Pasture blends rugged ecology, local heritage, and a touch of humor, complete with life-size sheep sculptures and a corral-style gate to invite both hotel guests and passersby to linger.

Read the full story at LAM online.

What landscape architects need to know. Sun Valley was the inspiration in BYLA's plan to bring the area's mountain ecology to Ketchum's downtown. By Timothy A. Schuler In the 1930s, a publicist working for a resort developer nicknamed Idaho’s Wood River basin “Sun Valley” and coined the taglin...

10/27/2025

A Prize-Winning Essay Questions New York’s New Parks.

James Andrew Billingsley, winner of the 2025 Bradford Williams Medal, takes a critical look at Little Island and Gansevoort Peninsula and how we talk about landscape design itself.

“[T]here’s an element of freedom and chaos that is missing from both of these parks.” — James Andrew Billingsley

Read more at LAM Online.

What landscape architects need to know. James Andrew Billingsley, a winner of the 2025 Bradford Williams Medal, pulls no punches with his take on some of New York’s swankiest new parks. By Joe Adler James Andrew Billingsley wants to make something abundantly clear: He likes Little Island, the 2.4-...

10/23/2025

Elizabeth Kennedy, FASLA, founded Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architect (EKLA) 30 years ago, making it the longest-surviving landscape architecture firm headed by a Black woman in America.

Based in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, EKLA’s mission-driven work bridges cultural heritage, social justice, and ecological design.

“We don’t have one Weeksville and the rest of it is highways. We have a portfolio that a lot of people don’t have.” — Elizabeth Kennedy

Read Elizabeth Kennedy’s Quiet Revolution at LAM Online.

A Black-owned design firm has 30 years of mission-driven work and a "portfolio that a lot of people don't have." By Sala Elise Patterson Photography by Sahar Coston-Hardy, Affiliate ASLA. Elizabeth Kennedy, FASLA, knows intimately how much landscape architecture has matured over the past few decades...

10/06/2025

OCTOBER 2025: EKLA

In the issue: A profile of Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architect, PLLC's three decades of culturally attuned practice, shaping public spaces through community engagement and environmental stewardship. LandDesign’s behind-the-scenes look at smart succession; BYLA Landscape Architects’ pastoral ode to Sun Valley; Civitas’s bold plan for San Diego’s Ocean Beach Pier; Kathleen John-Alder’s vivid mosaics of the New Jersey Pinelands and more~

Plus: University of Kentucky students bring design justice to a Black neighborhood, and the record-breaking EXPO shines in “Goods.”

10/03/2025

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Meet the Editors is an opportunity for ASLA design professionals to connect with the editors of Landscape Architecture Magazine and introduce a project, firm, or idea for future publication. If you've ever said to yourself, "my firm could never be in LAM," this is the event for you. Please review th...

09/05/2025

SEPTEMBER: THE 2025 ASLA AWARDS

The annual ASLA Awards issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine showcases this year’s most innovative and impactful projects from across the profession and academia.

Get your copy of the September issue, featuring all of the 2025 ASLA award-winning projects: https://bit.ly/3I9PzZI

Cover photo: Stewards of Pyrran: A Game of Fire, Care, and Cooperation, 2025 ASLA Student Award of Excellence in Communications from University of California, Davis

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08/27/2025

Multilevel ponds chiseled into rock flow into a naturally filtered swimming pool, bringing the rainforest home.

Read Zach Mortice’s feature on the Holocene House, with landscape architecture by Duncan Gibbs. https://bit.ly/4gg6vux

Photo by Renata Dominik via CplusC Architects + Builders.

08/18/2025

The outdoor recreation design firm SE Group ties together new, precisely graded slopes with conservation and public access.

What landscape architects need to know. The outdoor recreation design firm SE Group ties together new, precisely graded slopes with conservation and public access. By Jessica Bridger Two snowmobiles rumble upslope high in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, 40 minutes east of Salt Lake City and just west of...

08/15/2025

Two designers reflect on what’s changed since they published a provocative statement on landscape architecture.

Read their candid reflections at LAM Online. https://bit.ly/4oEc5KN

What landscape architects need to know. Two designers reflect on what's changed since they published a provocative statement on landscape architecture. In April 2005, LAM published an essay by two junior faculty members at Iowa State University titled “An Apocalyptic Manifesto.” Written in an ea...

07/29/2025

AUGUST 2025: YOU’RE WELCOME

On the cover: At the Missouri Botanical Garden, Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, LTD brings the inside out with 27,000 plants, a seed bank of rare species, and a few non-negotiable ground rules.

Also in the issue: A rewilding campus in Colorado; a serene pool at Holocene House with exquisite detailing in water and stone; SE Group planning year-round play on Utah’s mountains; a review of The African Ancestors Garden by Walter Hood at the International African American Museum; and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects' vision for Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. Plus: your late-summer reading list~

07/28/2025

COLLAB is a collective of six independent, women-owned landscape architecture practices supporting one another through project partnerships, shared knowledge, and real community.

Together, they take on larger projects and find the “water cooler” camaraderie often missing from solo practice.

“The reason we are out on our own [is] in part because we couldn’t find places in a standard firm structure.” —Emma Kelly, ASLA

Read the full story at LAM Online. https://bit.ly/4kYvSl6

What landscape architects need to know. The small design firms in the collective can team up on bigger projects and find “water cooler” camaraderie. By Elaine Stokes, ASLA “We’re not a firm,” says Jessalyn Jarest, ASLA. “That’s what’s different about us,” adds Elise Nash, ASLA. Thi...

07/18/2025

In Indianapolis, Ahmaud Carroll Tubbs, Student ASLA, uncovered the stories of nearly 1,300 Black residents buried in unmarked graves and proposed a landscape-forward memorial to honor them.

His summer internship has become a teachable moment for the whole city.

Read the story at LAM Online. https://bit.ly/4kIy8gl

Ahmaud Carroll-Tubbs' summer internship has become a teachable moment for the whole city. By Anjulie Rao Just east of the White River in Indianapolis sat the Greenlawn Cemetery, one of the city’s oldest public burial sites. Divided into six sections across 25 acres, the grounds had interred more t...