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Skier’s team hired the Miami-based landscape architect Raymond Jungles, FASLA, winner of the 2024 ASLA Design Medal, to craft a vision for a restored coastal ecosystem that could serve the foundation’s education and advocacy missions. Jungles brings an obvious passion for repopulating species often decimated by commercial developments.
On Design - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Landscape Architecture Magazine covers the wide range of design by landscape architects written by award-winning journalists. More than parks, landscape architecture is woven into cities, neighborhoods, and rural places in projects large and small. Below is a sample of some of the best feature articles on design that have appeared recently.
Imagine That - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Aug 24, 2021 · Mok, a landscape architecture studio executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, designs theme parks and resorts. “Our designs have to be complete; it has to be immersive. It’s putting the magic into that experience [for] the guest.”. The newest example of this design philosophy is her team’s designs for the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme ...
About Us - Landscape Architecture Magazine
About Us. Founded in 1910, Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) is the monthly magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). It is the magazine of record for the landscape architecture profession in North America, reaching more than 60,000 readers who plan and design projects valued at more than $140 billion each year.
Landscapes Over Time - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Mar 14, 2013 · Unlike architecture, landscape architecture evolves (and almost always improves) through time. Its parks and gardens are never complete. Or rather the finished landscape of today is not the finished landscape of many years from now. Landscape architects must more deliberately include in their work predictions of how it will change.
Rural communities - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Photo by Smith Hardy. In 1993, Pollocksville, North Carolina, Mayor Jay Bender, who’s run the small town for more than 40 years, worked “like crazy” to convince the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to allow him to build on the Trent River. The river runs through Pollocksville, and at the turn of the 19th century, ferries and barges plied its ...
Housing - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Nestled into steep cliffs that face the Pacific Coast of Chile, the landscape architect Teresa Moller ’s house combines a small-scale rewilding and a site for the study of seacoast plants. The experimental gardens at Moller’s house, in the residential development Punta Pite, are part of a 27-acre property that follows the contours of a bay ...
A Certain Sacrifice - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Apr 18, 2024 · A Chilean landscape architect based in Santiago, she was chosen by Gardens Illustrated as one of the world’s most interesting designers. Recently, she received the 2021 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture sponsored by UNESCO, and was also included as one of the 50 featured landscape architects in 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should ...
April 2022 Contents - Landscape Architecture Magazine
APRIL 2022 12 Inside 14 Land Matters 16 Letters FOREGROUND 20 Now Ableist critiques of artful crosswalks make an impact; the hottest U.S. city opens the first office of heat response and mitigation; an urban greenway for New Jersey by MNLA follows the railroad; waterfront designers should consider urban fishers; and more. Edited by Timothy A. Schuler 40 Water In
Soils: The Measure of Moisture - Landscape Architecture Magazine
Jan 21, 2014 · A good moisture meter that gives reasonably reliable data will cost about $250 or more. These meters will typically read around 50 percent when the soil is totally saturated. Moisture meters that are far cheaper, $15 to $100, are available, but these give much more approximate readings. I use two meters.