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Land8: Landscape Architects Network wrote a new post, Land8 “Happy Hour” Comes Full Circle in Philly 7 years, 7 months ago

If you’ve ever attended the ASLA Meeting + EXPO over the last decade, there’s a good chance you attended or at least heard about the famous Land8 Happy Hour that bills itself as “The Largest Party for Lands […]

Brandon Reed, CVO, ASLA / Rooftop and Urban Designer / Landscape Architect wrote a new post, 5 Things Architects Want from a Landscape Architect 7 years, 7 months ago

We love architecture and we love working with architects. It’s no secret that there’s sometimes tension in the architect/landscape architect relationship, but there’s no reason it needs to be that way. The duo w […]

luke hegeman replied 7 years, 7 months ago

“This creative vision includes the ability to see how you can make the architect and the architecture the hero as part of the creative process”… F*** making an architect a hero. We, the collective minds that invent and manipulate space, do it as a team. We, as landscape architects, are hired to create compositions that promote the health, safety, and public welfare of those that use our spaces. To that end, if we follow your first five steps we are now on a well-functioning, communicative team that has an unified vision towards making said space a successful project – no hero needed.

Landscape architects are not beholden to architects and we should make every effort to strengthen our profession instead of promulgating subservience to architecture.
- Aybige Tek replied 7 years, 7 months ago
  
  Agreed to this! Even though i am an architect. I still believe without a proper landscape; architecture don’t mean nothing 🙂 Great points. Thank you guys.
  - Brandon Reed, CVO, ASLA / Rooftop and Urban Designer / Landscape Architect replied 7 years, 7 months ago
    
    Thanks Aybige!
Tim Daugherty replied 7 years, 6 months ago

There are some good business development lessons in here, but I would apply it to any client – whether it’s a public agency, developer, architect, planner or civil engineer. I think many LA’s will be put off by #5, which could have easily just been “The Client is the Hero”.
- Brandon Reed, CVO, ASLA / Rooftop and Urban Designer / Landscape Architect replied 7 years, 6 months ago
  
  Thanks for your comment @tim daugherty. I like your feedback and yes that is a good option to replace the “architect as the hero” to the client is the hero. Much appreciated!
Brandon Reed, CVO, ASLA / Rooftop and Urban Designer / Landscape Architect replied 7 years, 6 months ago

That’s a great idea @Joshua
Brandon Reed, CVO, ASLA / Rooftop and Urban Designer / Landscape Architect replied 7 years, 6 months ago

I would love to hear what 5 things you want from an architect?

steve austin wrote a new post, The Climate Report That Changes Everything for Landscape Architecture 7 years, 7 months ago

On October 8, 2018, the UN released a bombshell report whose implications will shake the profession of landscape architecture to its core. The report lays out clear evidence that if world governments don’t take […]

Meade Mitchell, PLA wrote a new post, Authentic Nature is Our Greatest Amenity 7 years, 7 months ago

On a sticky Saturday morning, a pickerel frog lets out a slow, steady snore as he perches proudly in his newly found, tiered-pond paradise. Just below the water’s surface, dozens of intrepid tadpoles dine on a […]

Patrick Whealton replied 7 years, 7 months ago

Excellent project and a very well written article – a reminder that a well-written narrative is a powerful storytelling tool! I am curious whether or not the design team ran up against any “attractive nuisance” opposition during the design process or after construction.
- Meade Mitchell, PLA replied 7 years, 7 months ago
  
  Thank you for the kind words. It is a very good question. That the question is asked, might be a strong testimony on how “real nature” has been removed from the normal occurrence, that it would be considered similarly to some industrial site, as far as safety and benefits to a community. As far as an “attractive nuisance”, we have not yet run into any complaints. I have hope that a wetland park with flowering plants, water falls with improved pathways, boardwalks and shade structures would never be categorized as a nuisance, or the profession of landscape architecture is in trouble. All kidding aside, we have taken care to have well positioned signs and having a hierarchy of paths that create some boundaries of use, if not explicitly stated, at least implicitly stated what is appropriate for interacting. In addition, we tried to make the “rules” signs and “warning” signs more about information on what we want users to do, more than about what you “can’t” do at the park.
Kristin Faurest replied 7 years, 6 months ago

So well written and what a brilliant idea! I’m hesitating to ask, but just in glancing at the photos that show the houses, I am guessing…not as much stewardship and care went into the architecture? Looks like the usual McMansions, but perhaps I’m snap-judging.
- Meade Mitchell, PLA replied 7 years, 6 months ago
  
  Yes, the adjacent houses in the area are more of a standard suburban layout. Sort of related I would add, this is a park that is hopefully bigger than right next door users, and our goal is to connect everyone we can to natural amenities. The park was publicly funded and is a public amenity for anyone to enjoy. We hope that this park is not just a place for the immediate neighbors, but many other close neighborhoods. I digress, ultimately and unfortunately, we don’t have a voice in this community’s single family architectural style, but we have made great strides in changing the community’s definition of what is a beautiful park, in changing it to be more habitat and nature driven. Maybe that will lead to natural backyards!
  - Kristin Faurest replied 7 years, 6 months ago
    
    Here’s hoping you’ll be an inspiration! Keep up the great work.

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