Landscape Architecture Magazine

01/24/2025

Iceland’s fiery liquid landscape shifts, on a massive scale.

The country's fiery liquid landscape shifts, on a massive scale. By Michael Dumiak Kristín Jóhannsdóttir woke at two in the morning, looked from her window over fields to the east, and saw curtains of fire. It was 1973. She thought the Soviets were coming. Then she wondered if there would be scho...

01/17/2025

An accountability atlas highlights the urgent need for preemptive climate adaptation across U.S. landscapes.

An accountability atlas highlights the urgent need for preemptive climate adaptation across U.S. landscapes. By Bridget Reed Morawski Between 2011 and 2023, more than 90 percent of the nation’s congressional districts had at least one county receive a federal disaster declaration because of extrem...

12/28/2024

JANUARY 2025: LANGO HANSEN

On the cover: Portland's newest mixed-use development feels like home. Landscape Architecture by Lango Hansen Landscape Architects.

Also in the issue: Odessa's Bee Landscaping Bureau works around the war; outcry over redevelopment threats to Florida state parks; Tulsa's Gathering Place gets a new river link; accounting for disaster funding; and more.

In western North Carolina, ornamental nursery growers dig out after the damage from Hurricane Helene. Plus, the winners of the 2024 International Landscape Photographer of the Year, a review of Shrouded in Light: Naturalistic Planting Inspired by Wild Shrublands, and Land Morphology finds new uses for relics of Kentucky's industrial past.

12/22/2024

In 1969, Landscape Architecture Magazine explored the pros and cons of the snowmobile boom. From new recreational opportunities to environmental challenges, the rise of these machines brought both excitement and concern.

What do you think about motorized recreation in natural landscapes? Drop your vote in the comments!
❄️ = It’s great for accessibility and winter recreation!
🌿 = It’s a risk to delicate ecosystems.

Image Credit: U.S. Forest Service

12/17/2024

After a devastating storm, an Iowa landmark finds the silver lining. Brucemore in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, joined increasingly common company: an important landscape destroyed by climate change-accelerated natural disasters.

Brett Seelman, ASLA, and his firm Seelman Landscape Architecture (SLA) are rehabilitating Brucemore’s landscape and attempting to answer the hard questions raised by the derecho’s destruction.

Read more on LAM Online: https://bit.ly/3P00uFj

Photo Credits: 1. Courtesy of Brucemore Inc.; 2. Courtesy of Brucemore Inc. Archives; 3. Courtesy of Seelman Landscape Architecture

12/10/2024

An interim landscape at NC State University is a master class in reuse.

Kimley-Horn navigates the university's rules on salvaging construction waste to pay homage to a campus icon.

Read more on LAM Online: https://bit.ly/4g1YsjQ

Photos Courtesy Kimley-Horn

11/26/2024

DECEMBER 2024: PAVE THE WAY

On the cover: An artful insertion unites Denver's museum complex. Landscape Architecture by Mundus Bishop

Also in the issue: The 2025 LAM Product Directory; Design Workshop restores a sculpture by a Bauhaus icon; MNLA Studio tackles a challenging urban infrastructure with a transformative respite; three standout landscapes cherished by Danika Cooper; and more. Plus, a landscape architecture educator talks to Land Kit founder Chris Landau, Affiliate ASLA, about the ups and downs of introducing computational design into a graduate studio on coastal resilience at the University of Virginia.

11/22/2024

In Ditched Schemes, Designs That Didn’t Make the Cut Get a Second Look

Overlooked and underrated, failed design concepts find new audiences in a multimedia project created by landscape architects Maggie Hansen and Jennifer Birkeland. https://bit.ly/4eDNijS

Image: The ruderal landscape of the High Line before redevelopment. Courtesy MVVA and Dirt Studio.

11/07/2024

A South Florida Park Gets a Raymond Jungles Makeover 🌿 The redesign will spread the word on native plants.

Read more in LAM: https://bit.ly/3CrpvWK

Images: Sketches of the park's reimagined entrance and pathways. Courtesy of Raymond Jungles, Inc.

11/07/2024

NOVEMBER 2024: FUNKY FRESHKILLS

On the cover: North Park, part of Freshkills Park on Staten Island, by Field Operations

Also in the issue: Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects answer to landscape architecture's maintenance problem; the Athletes' Village for the 2024 Paris Olympics pioneers how construction waste can be recycled into innovative soil mixes; a review of Mien Ruys: The Mother of Modernist Gardens; Martin Rickles Studio shapes tricky terrain in Georgia; and more~

10/23/2024

A new plan aims to rework the legacy infrastructure that plagues D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center.

Read the full story in LAM. https://bit.ly/3YD7rRh

Image Credit: An aerial rendering of the National Capital Planning Commission’s design vision. Courtesy of Dariushwatercolors.com.

10/11/2024

Inspired by the Netherlands, Montreal is adopting water squares to mitigate urban flooding.💧

The city currently has six water squares built, two under construction, and 20 more planned for 2024. The Place des Fleurs-de-Macadam, designed by NIPPAYSAGE and EXP, provided proof of concept. When tested, it absorbed 97% of a 100-year storm, with each dollar invested predicted to save at least five in averted flood damage. Read more: https://bit.ly/4f1hV3q

Images:
1. Montreal’s Place des Fleurs-de-Macadam is part of the city’s investment in
Dutch-style water squares. Photo by Roxanne Marcil.
2. The water square’s central basin slowly releases stormwater into the plaza’s deeply carved rain gardens. Photo by NIPPAYSAGE.

10/09/2024

Gratified to hear how this article provided a catalyst for further work on Renewable Energy Landscapes.

10/09/2024

Darneka Waters, ASLA, speaking about the transformative project she is leading for Mecklenberg County at the former Latta Plantation.

10/09/2024

Standing Room Only for a morning session on planting for the next 125 years. “don’t let great get in the way of good.”

10/03/2024

OCTOBER 2024: ACT LOCAL
On the cover: The Homeless Services Center by ALA | Aceto Landscape Architects in Portland, Maine. Photography by Sofia Aldinio.

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09/25/2024

A group of University of Southern California students spent six days walking the 51 miles of the Los Angeles River and documenting what they found.

For their efforts, the team was given an American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award in the Student Collaboration category.

Team members: Leslie Dinkin, Associate ASLA; Hannah Flynn, Associate ASLA; Nina Weithorn, Associate ASLA; Camille Shooshani; Rio Asch Phoenix
Faculty Adviser: Alexander Robinson

A group of students at the University of Southern California spent six days documenting the Los Angeles River, including what has died, survived, and thrived.

09/20/2024

In the Eastern Coachella Valley, where shade is a luxury, the nonprofit Kounkuey Design Initiative focuses on empowering the residents through design.

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

Photography by Michael Todoran/HAPS Agency