What landscape architects need to know. EnviroCollab is a case study of how landscape architecture firms may be warming to ...

What landscape architects need to know. Ruderal’s landscape on the outskirts of the Georgian capital celebrates imprecision ...

Drawing by Barbara Keathley Associates/Roger Dale Skaggs, ASLA. Barbara Keathley, ASLA, is not one to settle for less than her vision. In Memphis, Tennessee, where her firm is based, she and Roger ...

Ipe is the most common tropical hardwood decking material in the United States, but the way it is harvested has raised concerns among ecologists. Photo by Jane Hutton. “This John Chipman bench was ...

For nearly a century, a new breed of megaproject has gone unrecognized, and it is now proliferating. These projects, which we have named “mega-eco projects,” are different from old-school megaprojects ...

A humble attitude brought the Charlotte firm work for three decades. Pulling out of the recession called for bolder moves. In 2014, six years after the Great Recession showed up at LandDesign’s ...

Movable seating, tents, and a kiosk transformed the court into a place to support new social interactions. Image courtesy Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and the Center for Court Innovation. In ...

Land banks and land trusts have overlapping missions—stewarding land—but different frameworks and financing. Land banks and similar programs were originally put in place to maintain vacant, publicly ...

Landscape architects are working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and building new networks through the Engineering With Nature program. The implications could be transformative for both. Monica ...

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates used Thermory, a thermally modified lumber, for a deck at Wellesley College. They found radial cuts easier with Thermory than with hard, dense tropical hardwoods.

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 ...