The landscape
When building in an open setting, the landscape is a powerful condition. It can change quite substantially with no human intervention – even if it is manmade, and just seemingly naturalistic – because the seasonality of climate does this all on its own. The cycles and rhythms of the natural world can shape the land in profound ways that make our human footprint on it diminutive. In this sense, landscape is the ultimate context. As landscape architects, we embrace this way of seeing. Read more
Talk / Citymakers - What we leave behind, Urban Legacies: Inheritance
What do we leave behind? Well, just about everything.
Talk / Citymakers - Pragmatics of The Picturesque: As found, as needed, as experienced
How does the romanticisim of the picturesque fair when faced with the harsh reality of a Victorian sewer line?