Land8 | AcT | Group Activity https://land8.com/members/act/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which AcT is a member. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:38:51 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3475ef6efcef85fbbb18c93b4b02cbee Séfora Chavarria posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: What is LAbash? LAbash (landscape architecture bash) is a […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21273/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:16:32 +0000 What is LAbash?
LAbash (landscape architecture bash) is a student run conference that serves as a platform for students from various universities to converge, exchange ideas and celebrate their passion for landscape architecture.
LAbash was conceptualized in 1970 by three students from the University of Guelph looking for an opportunity to…[Read more]

]]> 0 30672dc3676470f2e01c9ae332e69dd8 Séfora Chavarria posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Early registration for FIU LABASH 2012 has been extended […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21274/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:15:48 +0000 Early registration for FIU LABASH 2012 has been extended for 1 more week, don’t miss out register today!

]]> 0 e7d1f6801036c45a51906578cb490fda shiraz daud posted an update in the group DESIGN: In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. https://land8.com/activity/p/26178/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:04:45 +0000 In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

]]> 0 03b19ce9df56fb3cbeab75414648cf58 Matthew Durkovich posted an update in the group DESIGN: Denis - try "From Concept to Form in Landscape Design" by […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26179/ Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:04:14 +0000 Denis – try “From Concept to Form in Landscape Design” by Grant Reid.  It’s a good starting point for what you’re talking about.

]]> 0 c10b9e30b4fb4f4818b49739da357b23 Denis Vasiliev posted an update in the group DESIGN: Hello! I am looking for manuals on Design itself - […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26180/ Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:45:23 +0000 Hello! I am looking for manuals on Design itself – especially combining forms and shapes(geometry), getting beatiful lines, proportions and finally getting harmonious composition. Any good books or e-books? The best free available on-line:) Waiting for advices!

]]> 0 63f024f92bcfdd850ee4a6883f51c0fa marcial andan flores posted an update in the group DESIGN: hello guys...   glad to join the group. https://land8.com/activity/p/26181/ Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:23:03 +0000 hello guys…
 
glad to join the group.

]]> 0 2f1b9abf398593d4f8b9109d8f115f22 Ryan Sand posted an update in the group DESIGN: barlow, I would really be interested in seeing what European […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26182/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:15:26 +0000 barlow, I would really be interested in seeing what European style sketches are and what one would percieve is the common american style of drawing?

]]> 0 48dc1c75c5e4e4fd9097ede868ca0feb Haris Piplas posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Of course, I will share it with you. Nice pics on your […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21275/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:44:10 +0000 Of course, I will share it with you. Nice pics on your profile:)

Greetings 🙂

]]> 0 a7727197b99ceb81c06ef2c1f2e9da11 Claudia Chalfa posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Cool - I want to read it when you're done. https://land8.com/activity/p/21276/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:52:25 +0000 Cool – I want to read it when you’re done.

]]> 0 c5a3dbe74f4488220f8eb8f96a2b0dcd Haris Piplas posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Hi :) generally said, I write about my beloved Sarajevo and […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21277/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:43:37 +0000 Hi 🙂

generally said, I write about my beloved Sarajevo and its post-war urban structures incl. landscapes. It is very interesting I think. I have the whole next semester to finish and I´m traveling there this week.

Hope you´re also doing some interesting stuff. Keep us updated 🙂

]]> 0 59f9eb9962e7a2b349b0d25c9616ff93 Claudia Chalfa posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Good luck with that, Haris! It'll be over before you know […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21278/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:59:16 +0000 Good luck with that, Haris! It’ll be over before you know it. I’m sure you’ll do great – what’s the topic?

]]> 0 c14500ab84f4832383c02c269b7650c9 Haris Piplas posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Hi everybody, yes, I miss it too. Greets from Berlin where […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21279/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:31:46 +0000 Hi everybody,
yes, I miss it too.

Greets from Berlin where I write my Master-thesis 🙂

]]> 0 3955bacf557b36d39cd1bd661055cbef Claudia Chalfa posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: How is everyone doing? I miss our group, hope everyone is well :) https://land8.com/activity/p/21280/ Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:03:51 +0000 How is everyone doing? I miss our group, hope everyone is well 🙂

]]> 0 56ad28bc9a63c604f7235f2430daf175 Arina Habich posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Visit new Urban Design Podcast on iTunes and http://bit.ly/277Mrz https://land8.com/activity/p/21281/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:26:49 +0000 Visit new Urban Design Podcast on iTunes and http://bit.ly/277Mrz

]]> 0 33d84431987d2aadfa0615dc923661ba Matthew Durkovich posted an update in the group DESIGN: Brandon, What year did you graduate from USU? I'm a BLA '06 […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26183/ Wed, 06 May 2009 13:25:38 +0000 Brandon,

What year did you graduate from USU? I’m a BLA ’06 myself. Your stuff looks awesome. What is the name of your firm?

]]> 0 eccb3b79bb97ccd7a5c14147866f0034 Camilo Calderon posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Hi again !! Here is the blog of the conference I have […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21282/ Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:09:41 +0000 Hi again !!

Here is the blog of the conference I have mentioned you before “Ecological Urbanism”. Hope you find it useful. http://gsd-ecologicalurbanism.blogspot.com/

If anyone wants to discuss its content I will be glad to participate in the discussion.

Hope you are having a great beginning of spring !!

Camilo

]]> 0 69c9a1b105827a6f3dc4751de8516508 Ellen Fetzer posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Dear Haris, I will be in Paris - great that we will meet there! Ellen https://land8.com/activity/p/21283/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:02:17 +0000 Dear Haris, I will be in Paris – great that we will meet there!

Ellen

]]> 0 84fd0879fa496ac8fbb66448fe175d13 Haris Piplas posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Hello everyone, hope to meet some of you at the LE:NOTRE […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21284/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:32:23 +0000 Hello everyone,
hope to meet some of you at the LE:NOTRE Workshop in Versailles where we can exchange our experience “in real time” :).

Camilo, thanks for the news. Hope, that similar events will be organized in Europe soon because the topic is really interesting.

Best wishes from the (still freezing and snowy) Olympic capital of Bosnia

]]> 0 950dba2e2a63d3cac9a6178cdfc8ab03 Fernando Reis posted an update in the group DESIGN: a comment to JJ comment (?) "The greatest designer is normal […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26184/ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:59:40 +0000 a comment to JJ comment (?)
“The greatest designer is normal people—the best cities in the world were not designed” – my frien i think we may include that in the design category. not in the academic kind, but in the category of the design made by specific needs of people, but is design.
if t. Church said that the gardens are made for people (and…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc56ff2e92c821e135b1033d0f43cb04 Camilo Calderon posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Hello everyone !! I wanted to share something that I found […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21285/ Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:17:52 +0000 Hello everyone !!

I wanted to share something that I found which I believe might be of interest for some of us. It is a conference that will be held in Harvard University called “Ecological Urbanism”.

Right now there is not so much information about it but It will be interesting to see what will result from it. I believe the concept of landscape…[Read more]

]]> 0 2620a21256c6aee35f944650d72dba36 Nur Amalina Ali Mohd posted an update in the group DESIGN: to justin, u were refering to the brownfield site. a master […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26185/ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:02:08 +0000 to justin, u were refering to the brownfield site. a master thesis by ledrew s.p from the university of calgary, an ecological design approach to urban landscape reconstruction might be helpful.

]]> 0 3adc689bb0cfc028c81bfc4dcccead95 Claudia Chalfa posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: I got this picture from a book called "Riverscapes: […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21286/ Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:13:59 +0000 I got this picture from a book called “Riverscapes: designing urban embankments”and that was the location credited in the book. So maybe we should write to the publisher and tell them to correct it. Thanks for clarifying..I hope to be able to visit this beach in person soon. 🙂

]]> 0 ed7ceeec0d64e7a6cd63bf357f3c8544 andrew butler posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Hello everyone and a slight correction to Claudia, Crosby […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21287/ Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:47:51 +0000 Hello everyone
and a slight correction to Claudia, Crosby Beach is near Liverpool. The Liverpudlians would be very annoyed to hear the beach has moved.
http://antonygormley.co.uk/

]]> 0 2790c5a8f6f3e1b5b42b61e9e06e3b45 Hugh Ryan posted an update in the group DESIGN: Hi Barlow...hmmmmmmm sweeping statement, but none the less […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26186/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:11:10 +0000 Hi Barlow…hmmmmmmm sweeping statement, but none the less there is some merit in what you say, but surely it is not simply an american[USA] problem. I guess it depends on whose work you are looking at, and at what stage they are at in their careers. It takes time to develop individuality.

]]> 0 d296bf702fa145bad2ba1ac0a4fe53c4 barlow posted an update in the group DESIGN: Dear Brandon and others; Why are all american sketches the […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26187/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:10:22 +0000 Dear Brandon and others;
Why are all american sketches the same and why are all american designs the same? It’s like copy – paste.

]]> 0 0c69eecfefd7737229c02d9221bef5b4 Claudia Chalfa posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: I watched the videos of Colombia and Bosnia, by the […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21288/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:19:11 +0000 I watched the videos of Colombia and Bosnia, by the way…thanks for posting those. I tried to find a nice video of North or South Carolina to show you, but couldn’t find a good one. I will post some pictures though. Here’s one of the Blue Ridge mountains near Asheville, NC, about an hour away from where I live.

and here is just a little video…[Read more]

]]> 0 f394cb526f0d7de8eb5bac8c75e7efff Claudia Chalfa posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: the photo is of a sculpture at Crosby Beach, near London. […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21289/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:15:05 +0000 the photo is of a sculpture at Crosby Beach, near London. There are many iron figures in various locations along the beach, both in and near the water. The artist is named Anthony Gormley.

]]> 0 4d21f9ccd044ffe4324477e2c5e742af Victoria Solis Pauwels posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Look, this is Colombia!! Please […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21290/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:10:39 +0000 Look, this is Colombia!! Please enjoy!!

]]> 0 3933b8ea53ad4e615df27d784076e7be zhangyujun posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Hello everybody. https://land8.com/activity/p/21291/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:03:23 +0000 Hello everybody.

]]> 0 1f7501bb6d5487a6774332eeb02a7b28 Haris Piplas posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: Nice photo Claudia, very symbolic, I like it. Do you know […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21292/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:23:42 +0000 Nice photo Claudia, very symbolic, I like it. Do you know where this is (although it is not so important in this case), :).

]]> 0 68732071df2ee7d6045cdf9185f2092f Claudia Chalfa posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: I'm adding the photo here that I had used for the other […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21293/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:16:00 +0000 I’m adding the photo here that I had used for the other group, because I really like it. See? he is reaching across the water, just like many of us 🙂

]]> 0 12c14ced70c64f9ff352fed146579a86 Heike Kaiser posted an update in the group 365 urban landscapes LE:NOTRE Mundus Seminar: thank you haris, for creating this group :-) this way we can […] https://land8.com/activity/p/21294/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:42:25 +0000 thank you haris, for creating this group 🙂
this way we can all stay in touch and exchange experiences + knowledge!!!

]]> 0 bc92a38f2136c1607ed38cfb0a876067 mohd yusri mohd yusof posted an update in the group DESIGN: hi justin...why dont you look at landscape park duisburg […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26188/ Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:24:06 +0000 hi justin…why dont you look at landscape park duisburg nord in german…maybe it will help you for your case study

]]> 0 3c72f55d5fd2a4605c04789a92f68294 Justin Roger Burns posted an update in the group DESIGN: i am a landscape architecture student working on my senior […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26189/ Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:11:17 +0000 i am a landscape architecture student working on my senior project, which is a brownfield site ( old glass manufacture), and curious to see if any one had unique design, mitigation techniques and or a case study or to i should look in to.

]]> 0 2af3a8b6f9b4233118723047d9ca1ade Hugh Ryan posted an update in the group DESIGN: Nice group. I look forward to sharing in discussion https://land8.com/activity/p/26190/ Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:49:59 +0000 Nice group. I look forward to sharing in discussion

]]> 0 3ffdd5c60f1825b30f7f18542803269e mohd yusri mohd yusof posted an update in the group DESIGN: WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT SITE SPECIFIC DESIGN..... https://land8.com/activity/p/26191/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:21:19 +0000 WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT SITE SPECIFIC DESIGN…..

]]> 0 7862dd5e2d154062951ede6a20dbd025 Hristo Angelov posted an update in the group DESIGN: Great design is what is around us ,the natural environment.. […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26192/ Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:04:31 +0000 Great design is what is around us ,the natural environment.. the Japanese landscape artists were tryig to copy and paste it their own home environment..there are aslo a lot of superb details in nature.. every single thing could be taken as a sample.. a good design should inspire arstists, poets, composers, and manipulate people’s mind in a way…[Read more]

]]> 0 f426bf0073051c300e5580b1d9ea635a JJ posted an update in the group DESIGN: The greatest designer is normal people---the best cities in […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26193/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:38:23 +0000 The greatest designer is normal people—the best cities in the world were not designed.

]]> 0 64d2938c98cf1343eaa8d60e1d37f5f1 Brandon Reed, CVO, ASLA / Rooftop and Urban Designer / Landscape Architect posted an update in the group DESIGN: Maybe I shouldn't greatest designer cause it is very […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26194/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:34:37 +0000 Maybe I shouldn’t greatest designer cause it is very subjective….How about who is your favorite designer……I would have to Jeffery Gordon Smith is a pretty great designer….He is a member of our group…You should check out his work…..

]]> 0 d4adde0b2c3af4ca09ae9a8cbf399b0d Brandon Reed, CVO, ASLA / Rooftop and Urban Designer / Landscape Architect posted an update in the group DESIGN: Very nice! I thought I was the greatest designer on the […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26195/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:33:24 +0000 Very nice! I thought I was the greatest designer on the planet…..hehehehehe…j/k….

I will say…..Burle Marx maybe…..

]]> 0 0829a530e63827ffd1d8df1ebde77730 Brandon Reed, CVO, ASLA / Rooftop and Urban Designer / Landscape Architect posted an update in the group DESIGN: Who is the greatest designer of all time besides the obvious […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26196/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:29:43 +0000 Who is the greatest designer of all time besides the obvious answer of Olmsted….?

]]> 0 0923fdc32b651765ea15e40ea5d85288 Gabriel Hydrick posted an update in the group DESIGN: For me great design is: 1. Creating memory places 2. […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26197/ Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:04:41 +0000 For me great design is:
1. Creating memory places
2. Creating a sense of place (genus loci)
3. Guardian of identity
4. Interest of users health, safety and welfare
What Mack mentioned is true for me as one who has had the experience on both sides, as the one to experience and admire and the one to create

]]> 0 77630d76e560705c819968b92d327b20 Dean "Mack" McKenzie posted an update in the group DESIGN: Something that moves people, makes them stop and think "I […] https://land8.com/activity/p/26198/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:21:08 +0000 Something that moves people, makes them stop and think “I wish I could do that, But even though I can’t… I am glad some one did it for me.”

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