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Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, 5 Top Planting Design Resources for New Landscape Architects 5 years, 6 months ago
Clients and employers often complain that landscape architects, particularly young designers, are failing at planting design. Previous articles on Land8 have identified planting design as a challenging area for […]
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Stephanie Roa wrote a new post, Restructuring for the Future City [Video] 5 years, 6 months ago
During the Land8x8 Lightning Talks in Seattle, Julie Parrett began her presentation by asking the audience to consider our city’s public urban space – who owns it, how is it used, and is it accessible or clos […]
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Stephanie Roa wrote a new post, Evolving Memory [Video] 5 years, 7 months ago
There are too few opportunities to share knowledge within the design profession. Formalized research is only starting to gain prevalence, while most rely on personal experience as a basis of their knowledge. […]
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Win Phyo wrote a new post, Bangkok Is Sinking and Here Is the Solution 5 years, 8 months ago
Just as New York has Central Park, Bangkok has just received its lungs of the City – the Chulalongkorn Centenary Park, the first sizeable green infrastructure project, which has been designed for the city to face […]
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Kristin Faurest wrote a new post, Fostering the Future 5 years, 9 months ago
Low-maintenance is a sought-after quality in landscapes — as well as in architecture, vehicles, pets, hairstyles, flooring, the personalities of prospective mates, and pretty much everything else. We use the word […]
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Stephanie Roa wrote a new post, Learn, Celebrate, and Connect: A Recap of the ASLA 2018 Annual Meeting and EXPO 5 years, 9 months ago
Most people reading this article are likely familiar with the ASLA Annual Meeting – after all, it is the world’s largest gathering of landscape architecture professionals and students. And, with over 6,000 att […]
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Stephanie Roa wrote a new post, Element of Chance [Video] 5 years, 10 months ago
As landscape architects, we often find ourselves trying to tame nature into a designed form. What if, instead of working against natural systems, we invited them into our work, allowing our built work to be […]
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Win Phyo wrote a new post, Why Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost 5 years, 11 months ago
There is a “Wandering Landscape Architect” currently making a splash in the Instagram scene. If there is a slight anonymity about the page, it is done so intentionally. The creator behind the page is landscape […]
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Stephanie Roa wrote a new post, Landscape Stories as Catalysts of the Shared City [Video] 5 years, 11 months ago
The ways in which citizens engage the landscape reveal a community’s values and priorities. During the Land8x8 Lightning Talks in Seattle, Nate Cormier, Principal at Rios Clementi Hale Stud […]
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Kristin Faurest wrote a new post, The Divinity of Detail: Lessons from the Japanese Garden 6 years ago
The phrase “God is in the details” is, with uncertainty, attributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. But whether it came from the Modernist great or someone else, there is something about the play of detail in the cre […]
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Leave it to Miles to cut to the chase of giving focus to the details. Seems like Thelonious Monk’s title, ‘Straight, No Chaser’ might be an apt metaphor too–although it would be to explain how ‘straightforwardness’ is not always obvious in garden design. Your article was so well written and informative that I didn’t even mind the little bit of promotion for the biz.
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Stephanie Roa wrote a new post, Into the Weeds [Video] 6 years ago
Imagine the world is at the edge of an apocalypse – that Earth’s life has been greatly damaged and resembles a disastrous wasteland. The grim images painted in science fiction films are generally understood to […]
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Win Phyo started the topic The Ultimate Soundtrack to Landscape Architecture – Participation needed! in the forum RESEARCH 6 years, 1 month ago
Hi Everyone! I need your thoughts and participation.
I am pulling together an article named “The Ultimate Soundtrack to Landscape Architecture” and it is going to be based on the feedback of the Land8:Landscape Architect’s Network community’s experiences. The title might suggest that it is related to music but I want to broaden the spectru…[Read more]
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Stephanie Roa wrote a new post, 10 Billion Mouths [Video] 6 years, 2 months ago
The United Nations projects that the world’s population will be 9.8 billion by 2050, with roughly two-thirds of those people living in urban areas. To feed these nearly 10 billion mouths, it is estimated t […]
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Kristin Faurest wrote a new post, Listening to Nature – and Each Other 6 years, 3 months ago
Landscape architects — like many designers — regularly engage with what are commonly called ‘wicked’ problems. Wicked not in the sense of evil, but in the other definition: a problem that is difficult or tho […]
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Visiting local nurseries with plants tagged and identified is probably the most efficient way to familiarize yourself with regional plant material. Also, tending your own garden as well as getting out in nature at various times in the season will provide firsthand experience on plant growth and habit.
Planting design software and databases are very poor options for full understanding and make for the weak knowledge we’re now seeing.
Hi Jack: Thanks for your thoughtful response. Visiting regional nurseries is a fantastic way to figure out what’s commonly available in your area. It’s important to pair observation of nursery stock with observation of established plants – your public gardens are a great resource for this practice. And the more time you can spend physically dealing with plants, the better!
I agree that you can’t expect software and databases to be very useful for education about plants and how they grow – however they’re a fantastic tool for more effectively managing the design and documentation process.
Very informative and useful article. Thank you so much for writing. This is a great idea.
Nice article with sound ideas. One tangent to Public Gardens are Cemeteries. It’s amazing how many of them function like a formal garden/park space.