Caleb Melchior

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, How Can Landscape Architects Learn From Botanic Gardens? 2 months, 1 week ago

If you’ve worked in the landscape architecture field for long, you’ve likely noticed that landscape architects often struggle with plants. Plants are one of the primary materials in our palettes, but the […]

Scott Douglas replied 2 months, 1 week ago

As a landscape architect who ended up as the director of a university horticulture garden, I couldn’t agree more. LA’s need to get more familiar with plants… I myself struggle to keep up with our collection, I don’t know how our horticulturists do it.

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, AI Image Generation in Landscape Architecture Practice 1 year, 2 months ago

Landscape architecture as a discipline has a long and troubled history with images. The English word landscape, to start, originated in European painting tradition. Landscape architecture theorists and […]

David Cristiani replied 1 year, 1 month ago

Excellent review, Caleb. Everything I wanted to ask you, and then some!
- Caleb Melchior replied 1 year, 1 month ago
  
  Thank you, David! It was great to get to talk to all of these experts about their experiments.
Doug Davies replied 11 months ago

Love it- if you haven’t checked out SketchUp Diffusion, it’s worth a peek!

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, Knowledge Management for Landscape Architects 1 year, 3 months ago

Landscape architects are expected to know a lot about a lot. Ecology, social dynamics, construction detailing, CAD/Adobe/BIM? That’s just a one-hand list we all spin through in a few years at design school. H […]

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, Getting What You Want: Considerations in Specifying Plants 2 years ago

Mastering plants as a design material is a life-long challenge. Learn the names, qualities, and ecological preferences of any of the hundreds of potential species you could use and – guess what? – you’re only h […]

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, Site Analysis for Naturalistic Planting Design 2 years, 3 months ago

As landscape architects and planting designers, most of us have been trained in basic practices of site analysis. We map and analyze site features such as topography, circulation, views, and existing site […]

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, 8 Questions with @nahalsbt (Nahal Sohbati) 3 years, 6 months ago

As recently as 10 years ago, when I went through design school, the primary drawing references available to aspiring landscape architects were design magazines and books of renderings by famous landscape […]

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, Planting in Public: Resident Planting Preferences for Vacant Lots in East Kansas City Neighborhoods 4 years, 3 months ago

People who care about cities have long been troubled by the presence (and reputation) of “vacant” land. Landscape architects, city officials, and residents often worry that, unless something positive is act […]

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, Paving the Way for Naturalistic Planting Design 4 years, 5 months ago

Confronted by the jewel-like intensity of Piet Oudolf’s Lurie Garden or Tom Stuart-Smith Studio’s 2019 Chelsea Show Garden (pictured above), you might assume that these plantings are individual works of gen […]

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, Learning the Language of Contemporary Planting Design 4 years, 8 months ago

Many landscape architects resist planting design. It’s complex, time-consuming, and site-specific. Results are highly intertwined with implementation and maintenance. Planting is also exactly what your dad’s fri […]

Tim Daugherty replied 4 years, 7 months ago

Caleb – nice article. Thanks for sharing. One thing that could probably be added (in terms of planting style) is “modern” or perhaps “architectural”. Where planting is entirely geometric in use and layout…playing directly off architectural or constructed features in the site design. I always think this is a good way for Landscape Architects to distinguish themselves from landscape construction/design build.

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, 10 Questions with @ShitGardens 4 years, 9 months ago

Are you tired of oversaturated beach scenes, breathy clouds of flowers, and manicured contemporary plazas filling your Instagram feed? Head over to @shitgardens, the popular Instagram feed where Bede Brennan and […]

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, 10 Questions with @thelandscapeofmemes 4 years, 12 months ago

Those clever landscape architect memes your friends are sharing? They’re probably from the new instagram phenomenon @thelandscapeofmemes.

Land8 had the opportunity to ask @thelandscapeofmemes a series of […]

Arnaud Van Blommen replied 4 years, 10 months ago

Nice 🙂

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, Top Video Resources for Landscape Architects 5 years, 1 month ago

As practicing landscape architects, it can be easy to feel distanced from innovation in the field. Designers outside of major metro areas – or remote from landscape architecture schools – can find it difficult to […]

Caleb Melchior wrote a new post, Show Secrets: Design Details from the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show 5 years, 4 months ago

You’ve probably seen photos from Chelsea Flower Show. For a week in late May each year, the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in south London are filled with show gardens and horticultural exhibits. The C […]

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