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Kongjian Yu is the chair of Turenscape as well as the head of school of landscape architecture in Peking University.

Im personally quite happy to see more non-American projects winning this reward, ASLA has been dominated by “American Style” since long ago. On the one hand, as an American based organization of course it should focus on domestic projects more ; on the other, in a time when globalization effectively shapes landscape designs all over the world and makes them look more and more similar or just simply “American-like”, as one of the most influential LA awards in the world, ASLA may also need to think beyond “community, ecology and delight”.
Every year’s award winning designs undoubtedly influence the aesthetic of the world-wide profession and therefore indirectly transfer the land around people.
American-centrism or Cultural Diversity ?
I think this year’s ASLS awards give a strong and thoughtful answer!

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Maya Lin.
She is not very productive landscape architect, or you could even argue about if she is strictly a landscape architect or not. But when I firstly read about her designs as a first year la student, my way of understanding about this profession just got completely shifted .(Before that I never really realised how powerful and stunning a landscape design could be.)
I always feel language as an invalid tool to capture the essence of her design. Those ‘cosmic’ forms like blackholes just have the magic to slow me down. I watch, feel and, leave..Do not really want to talk about it but clearly I know something changed or got “purified” inside therefore this experience becomes almost meditative.

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thanks man!

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how could you make vegetation so real in these images? Photoshop? they look amazing!

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Normally you can get better computer configuration on pc of the same price compare to macbook pro, but if you would like to work at various places (i.e. studio and home) laptop usually is more handy. The reason lots of design students choose mac is its stabiliti (bare case of halted system during work) and high quality screen colour display ability (less variation between the colour on your screen and the colour of the printed plan). You shall notice once you choose mac system, it means you have to give up some programmes: 3D Max, Autocad,GIS etc. unless you use bootcamp to install windows system in ur macbook(I did it). Win7 is not that stable for running 3dmax while windows xp system could not recoginize 4g ram(it means you would only be able to use part of ram of your macbook under win xp which cause lower operation speed). The other option for macbook is you could choose only use mac-friendly programmes: vectorworks landamrk instead autocad, sketchup, photoshop,indesign (they all have mac version)….
hop it helps..good luck!

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cheers andrew.

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http://www.isthmus.co.nz/?action=project-detail&id=13
u may like2 check this one, its actually a park design with motor way overpass, could nt b the kind u after though….

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