February 2023: Her Crown
On the cover: A mural of Shirley Chisholm by Danielle Mastrion, at Shirley Chisholm State Park in New York. Photo by Lexi Van Valkenburgh.
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02-02-2023 21:53
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Log In to Log Off
New digital tools help overtaxed early childhood educators envision nature-based play spaces.
By Timothy A. Schuler
Muntazar Monsur designed virtual ...
02-02-2023 21:53
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Family Gathering
A Chicago garden calls a Black community pushed to the margins back together again.
By Zach Mortice
MKSK?s design for the community garden extends a M...
26-01-2023 21:53
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Book Review: The Mass-Produced Forest
A review of Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation by Rosetta S. Elkin.
By Jennifer Wolch
Tree planting campaigns are widely seen as a n...
19-01-2023 21:50
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A Deep Dive Into the Archive
Albert Kahn Associates mines original drawings for the restoration of the historic Ford House.
By Jeff Link
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06-01-2023 21:53
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JANUARY 2023: AL FAY PARK
ON THE COVER: Al Fay Park in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, by SLA. Photo by SLA/Phillip Handforth.
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02-01-2023 21:50
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Jacksonville Steps Ahead
Florida?s Emerald Trail strides toward a more walkable future.
By Margaret Shakespeare
The trail will create connections to the water and offer opport...
30-12-2022 21:51
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A Piet Oudolf Across the Street
Chicago?s historic Sears Sunken Garden is part of a strategy to revitalize a struggling West Side neighborhood.
By Zach Mortice
When Sears closed its ...
22-12-2022 21:49
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Breaking Bonds
A program to end modern slavery in the materials supply chain advances.
By Kamila Grigo
Black Chapel?s plywood, timber, steel, concrete, and weatherpr...
15-12-2022 21:51
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Ten Times Better
At Quarry House, TEN x TEN uses Minnesota stone and lissome birch sculpt a residential garden in three dimensions.
By Aaron King
A set of collages exp...
08-12-2022 21:48
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December 2022 Preview: Quarry Garden in Minneapolis
ON THE COVER: Quarry Garden in Minneapolis by TEN x TEN Landscape Architecture and Urbanism. Photo by Gaffer Photography.
Featured Story: ?Ten Times ...
01-12-2022 21:53
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Together for the Terroir
In California?s wine country, a landscape architect helps farmers and residents prepare for wildfires.
By Jennifer Reut
One of several design options ...
30-11-2022 21:55
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A Café Is a Country
Terremoto designed Cafe Ohlone to be an Indigenous refuge in a colonial world.
By Timothy A. Schuler
Each of the materials used holds cultural signif...
23-11-2022 21:50
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The Long Game
Landscape architects are working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and building new networks through the Engineering With Nature program. The impl...
09-11-2022 21:50
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Explorers at Home
Plant-hunting is always in season at the Leach Botanical Garden in Portland, Oregon, the storybook base of the botanist Lilla Leach, where Land Morpho...
03-11-2022 21:50
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November 2022: Leach Botanical Garden
ON THE COVER: A detail of Trillium, from the Leach Botanical Garden in Portland, Oregon, by Land Morphology. Photo by Sahar Coston-Hardy, Affiliate AS...
01-11-2022 21:53
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A Park in Progress
Marsha P. Johnson was a hero in the Black trans community. Will the park designed in her honor earn the same admiration"
By Stephen Zacks
Revised plan...
28-10-2022 21:51
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Pocket Ecologies
Offshoots, Inc., designs a place for people, bikes, and plants in Boston?s Charlestown neighborhood.
By Karolina Hac
The park uses trees and topograph...
27-10-2022 21:49
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For Crows, By Humans
Walter Hood reflects on what corvids can teach us.
By Anjulie Rao
Over several months, designers wove jute rope into an organic, nest-like form. No dr...
20-10-2022 21:51
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Seeding a Wilder Future
A new gorilla conservation campus by MASS Design Group and TEN x TEN is a laboratory for reforestation.
By Timothy A. Schuler
The experimental landsca...
12-10-2022 21:53
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The 2022 ASLA Awards Issue
“Riverfront Spokane,†a 2022 ASLA Professional Award winner for General Design by Berger Partnership. Cover photo by Built Work Photography.
The O...
12-10-2022 21:53
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Windbloom Maps the Breeze
Falon Mihalic?s sculpture charts the atmospheric forces that bind us.
By Zach Mortice
Mihalic designed an accompanying poster that depicts the average...
28-09-2022 21:39
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Gone Feral
A review of Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space by Matthew Gandy.
By Anjulie Rao
At Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, the skylark has f...
21-09-2022 21:41
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Designed Transition
Cheryl Barton winds down after decades as CEO, and her office becomes part of SCAPE.
By Bradford McKee
Kate Orff, FASLA, the founder of SCAPE, saw a s...
14-09-2022 21:42
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Back to the Garden
The beat goes on at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Upstate New York, the site of the legendary 1969 Woodstock music festival.
By Jane Margoli...
07-09-2022 22:09
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The Team on Tops
By any count, Presidio Tunnel Tops had an unusual number of women in construction and project leadership. They say there are good reasons for that.
By...
01-09-2022 22:05
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A Bumpy Reentry
Women landscape architects are finding the road from part-time to full-time work full of potholes.
By Jared Brey
Barbara Peterson, ASLA, is a night ow...
31-08-2022 22:09
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Weed Whackers
For habitat restoration and invasives control on sensitive sites, goats are a natural.
By Katharine Logan
Three hundred goats help Caltrans restore ha...
24-08-2022 22:09
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Collage Material
For new master plan, MNLA embraced Smith College?s ethos of participation.
By Jonathan Lerner
Paradise Pond, a beloved Smith landmark, was formed by a...
18-08-2022 21:47
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Destination Hemp Farm
A Virginia landscape architect thinks cannabis farms could be the state?s next tourist attraction.
By Kim O?Connell
Bereuter?s plan for the Cannabreez...
17-08-2022 21:44
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Tier Drops
Water out West is disappearing. Seven states, 30 tribes, and millions of people will need to adjust.
By Lisa Owens Viani
John Wesley Powell published ...
10-08-2022 21:42
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How to Grow a Greenway
For New Orleans?s popular Lafitte Greenway, the plan was just the beginning.
By Jane Margolies
Volunteers help plant cypress trees on the Lafitte Gree...
09-08-2022 21:48
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August 2022: Tough Cuts
?Tier Drops,? by Lisa Owens Viani.
Regulations and apportioning that were set up 100 years ago are under pressure as the Colorado River shrinks. As ...
04-08-2022 21:42
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Banking on Borrowed Land
Balancing rural and urban needs, climate change, and chronic underfunding, the land trust industry is in a moment of reckoning.
By Erin Kelly, ASLA
An...
18-07-2022 21:44
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Mind the Gaps (and Curves) with Precast Concrete
Getting the best from precast concrete requires a little flexibility.
By John Payne, ASLA, and James Dudley
The first prototype of the precast piece ...
15-07-2022 21:52
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Support by Design Aids Ukrainian Landscape Architects
The flexibility of remote work takes on a new dimension when American landscape architecture firms can bring on Ukrainian designers fleeing war.
By La...
12-07-2022 21:46
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Park Diplomacy Across the U.S.?Mexico Border
At Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, “two countries, two cities, one culture, one river, one park.?
By Jane Margolies
At various points along...
07-07-2022 21:46
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Bog Wild
Guarded by isolated landscapes and rough ocean waters, Argentina?s remote peatlands are among the world?s most effective and fragile carbon sinks.
By ...
30-06-2022 21:41
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Sharing the City One Step at a Time
Activists, wanderers, and tourists find a common language through walking.
By Tim Waterman
As lockdowns eased in 2021, Hôtel du Nord led a walk in L?...
28-06-2022 21:56
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(Re)making the Grade
At the University of Pittsburgh, a Complete Street caps a series of student-centered outdoor spaces.
By Timothy A. Schuler
North of the student union,...
23-06-2022 21:45
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Sketching the Housing Crisis
A pandemic sketchbook becomes a prompt to design activism.
Text and images by Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA
The endurance of this site is admirable. Tuck...
21-06-2022 21:43
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Line by Line
Local and global, analog and digital, Michael Blier leads Landworks Studio into the wide world.
By Jessica Bridger
A sketch of the Saudi Arabian coast...
16-06-2022 21:41
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The LAM Gift Guide for Landscape Architecture Graduates
Books, tech, and lots of pens to set the newly minted designer up right.
By the LAM Editorial Advisory Committee
Well, it?s finally happened. Your fam...
10-06-2022 21:49
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The Writing on the Wall
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon?s reputation was made at Sea Ranch. A new exhibit shows why she?s a supergraphics legend.
By Zach Mortice
Photo by Iker Gi...
07-06-2022 21:51
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Your Stuff Is Coming (Someday)
Supplies are short and prices are bonkers. What’s behind the issues in the supply chain, and when will they end"
By Bradford McKee
An Alpine crew in...
02-06-2022 21:44
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A Canopy Where it Counts
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, grabs the opportunity for more equity and biodiversity after a Derecho flattens more than half the urban trees.
By Kevan Klosterwi...
02-06-2022 21:44
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Hawaii Coastline Report Links Resilience with Access
A landscape architect-led study from the University of Hawaii combines climate adaptation and waterfront access.
By Timothy A. Schuler
The industrial ...
02-06-2022 21:44
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Get Ready to Respond
$1 billion in funding to reconnect divided communities is coming.
By Zach Mortice
Landscape architects are ingrained systems thinkers and experts on h...
18-05-2022 21:43
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A Wilder West
Embracing ?ugly-pretty? ecology on a Camelback Mountain estate.
By Brian Barth / Photography by Caitlin Atkinson
Stormwater runoff from the property ...
17-05-2022 21:45
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Have Van, Will Garden
The radical landscape architecture of Straub Thurmayr.
By Brian Barth
An early concept for the playground at Zaagaate, a daycare facility on a Manitob...
30-04-2022 21:39
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The Lab in the Backyard
USC?s Landscape Justice Initiative aims to give students grassroots perspective on their field.
By Patrick Sisson
Students will continue to monitor th...
29-04-2022 21:39
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Awards Focus: The Death and Life of Great American Barges
LAM is highlighting student and professional winners from the 2021 ASLA Awards by asking designers to share an outtake that tells an important part o...
21-04-2022 21:42
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Work in Progress
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish.
BY BRADFORD MCKEE
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19-04-2022 21:44
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Art Director’s Cut, April 14
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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14-04-2022 22:07
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The Year of the Superstudio
BY AARON KING
Yuehui Gong, Courtesy LAF.
Global problems meet regional politics in the field’s most ambitious venture in a century.
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In March of 2...
07-04-2022 22:04
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Placemaking Pitfall
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER
A street mural in Asheville, North Carolina, occupies the roadway without interfering with the adjacent crosswalks. Photo by Jus...
05-04-2022 21:41
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April LAM: Designing Policy
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FOREGROUND
In the Tank (Water)
Amid the wetlands and steel plants of Chicago?s Big Marsh Park, a new water recycling syst...
01-04-2022 21:41
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AWARDS FOCUS: AFTER PLASTICS
LAM is highlighting student and professional winners from the 2021 ASLA Awards by asking designers to share an outtake that tells an important part of...
31-03-2022 21:59
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SMALL TOWN, HEAVY LOAD
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish.
BY ANJULIE RAO
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29-03-2022 21:42
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24-03-2022 21:42
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ALTERNATE REALITIES
BY SEAN LALLY
Ultraviolet wavelength experienced in the video game. Image courtesy Sean Lally.
With the use of a video game platform, the project illu...
17-03-2022 21:51
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UNBUILT TO LAST
BY LYDIA LEE / PHOTOGRAPHY BY ERIC EINWILLER
A slice of the warehouse was used to define garden rooms.
For more than a decade, the Brooklyn Basin deve...
15-03-2022 21:41
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AWARDS FOCUS: AUCKLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
LAM is highlighting student and professional winners from the 2021 ASLA Awards by asking designers to share an outtake that tells an important part of...
10-03-2022 21:39
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SKY IS THE LIMIT
BY MARGARET SHAKESPEARE
Stepping away from the axial orientation of other Rockefeller Center gardens, Radio Park pathways curve and dip gently, flanke...
03-03-2022 21:38
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MARCH LAM: TERMINAL ENDS, NEW BEGINNINGS
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Foreground
Small Town, Heavy Load (Research)
Urbanites flee to rural areas for the fresh air and open space, but a study of t...
01-03-2022 21:39
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, FEBRUARY 24
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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24-02-2022 21:45
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TAKEN AWAY
BY LYDIA LEE
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22-02-2022 21:41
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, FEBRUARY 17
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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17-02-2022 22:08
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NORTHERN STAR
BY ZACH MORTICE
From the plaza at its center, the space is defined by a series of moderately sized lawns and bioretention basins. Image courtesy Stoss...
15-02-2022 21:42
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AWARDS FOCUS: INDIAN MOUNDS CULTURAL LANDSCAPE STUDY
LAM is highlighting student and professional winners from the 2021 ASLA Awards by asking designers to share an outtake that tells an important part of...
10-02-2022 21:38
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INTER-ACTIVE
BY JENNIFER REUT
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03-02-2022 21:41
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FEBRUARY LAM: QUAD, CANOPY, CONNECTION
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FOREGROUND
A Canopy Where It Counts (Planning)
After a storm devastated the urban forest in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the city recr...
01-02-2022 21:41
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AWARDS FOCUS: CRIMINALIZED FOR THEIR VERY EXISTENCE
LAM is highlighting student and professional winners from the 2021 ASLA Awards by asking designers to share an outtake that tells an important part of...
27-01-2022 21:39
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AWARDS FOCUS: NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH
LAM is highlighting student and professional winners from the 2021 ASLA Awards by asking designers to share an outtake that tells an important part of...
25-01-2022 21:45
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ROLL, TIDE
BY JARED BREY
The Lodge at Gulf State Park was rebuilt as a sustainable tourism destination after a previous lodge, a popular vacation spot, was destr...
20-01-2022 21:41
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, JANUARY 18
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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18-01-2022 21:43
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PEOPLE AND PASEOS
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish.
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BY TIMOTHY A. SC...
11-01-2022 21:40
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WONDERLAND
BY LEAH GHAZARIAN
Drawings by the artist and designer Cecil Howell accompany her essay, ?The Lost Flora.? Photo by Daniel Shipp.
Reid is not a strange...
06-01-2022 21:38
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A PARK WITH A HEART OF GOLD
BY KIM O’CONNELL
Druid Heights Green Community Master Plan. Image courtesy University of Maryland Landscape Architecture Studio.
?[Gold Street Park]...
04-01-2022 21:45
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JANUARY LAM: BIG FIXES
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FOREGROUND
?I? Is for Information (Tech)
Focus on the building and the model can overlook the many new approaches landscap...
03-01-2022 21:45
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CLIMBING THE LADDER
BY ZACH MORTICE
Marston, a visiting instructor at Florida International University?s landscape architecture school. Pulling data from professional ass...
22-12-2021 21:39
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THE WRIGHT WAY
BY JOANN GRECO
An aerial view of the floricycle in the early morning light. The semicircular form is organized around the center line of the veranda. ...
16-12-2021 22:14
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RIGHT OF CENTER
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish.
BY ROBERTO J. ROVIR...
16-12-2021 22:14
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ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, DECEMBER 14
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
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14-12-2021 21:41
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GREEN MACHINE
BY EMILY SCHLICKMAN
The Miridae Mobile Nursery and parklet in Davis, California, grew out of a project for a flexible, low-cost plant shop. Photo by E...
07-12-2021 21:44
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SWINGS AND SWALES
BY JARED BREY
The park features a stone cascade that directs rushing water to a rain garden in the central basin. Photo by Pashek + MTR.
A contact at ...
02-12-2021 22:06
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DECEMBER LAM: ALONG THE EDGE
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FOREGROUND
The Stranger Territory (Minds)
Julie Bargmann, the inaugural winner of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
International ...
01-12-2021 22:01
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HIGH PROFILE
BY HANIYA RAE
The highest point of the canal follows two reservoirs in the Front Range foothills. Photo by Evan Anderman.
The canal meanders in and ou...
30-11-2021 22:07
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