The Sustainability Design Lab, a yearlong course offered across disciplines, uses raw-earth materials and low-tech tools as ...

“The main Woods...are disastrous,” Carol Kelleher wrote in an annual report to her fellow garden volunteers in November 2023. A few months earlier, a brief, intense storm had destroyed more than 30 ...

These questions are among those considered in Idyll and Ideology: Hermann Mattern and the Landscape to Live In. “There is much in this ‘wicked’ term of modernism that is still to be addressed,” writes ...

As global attention shifts daily from one crisis to another, it is easy to lose focus on what a United Nations official calls the greatest threat the world has ever faced: climate change. Devastating ...

As a schoolgirl in Germany in the late 1930s, Cornelia Hahn was told to slow down—a Jewish girl must not win the school track meet. In 1938, after a harrowing escape from the Nazis—to England by train ...

Old rail rights-of-way are captivating because they challenge our ideas of what functions take place in different parts of a city. They slice through a rigid orthogonal grid, offer glimpses of an ...

If you’ve ever walked through a city park and thought, “This will be here forever,” you’ve experienced the same comforting illusion that has guided landscape architecture for more than a century. From ...

Elizabeth Kennedy, FASLA, knows intimately how much landscape architecture has matured over the past few decades. She is the founder of Elizabeth Kennedy Landscape Architect, PLLC (EKLA), the ...

Landscape representation has enjoyed a long and significant history in the fine arts, but it remains somewhat less explored in cinema—a medium for which it seems uniquely suited. Movies are shot on ...

The Oberlander Prize for Grupo de Diseño Urbano celebrates the strong focus on cultural diversity in founder Mario Schjetnan's work. Photo by Mario Schjetnan, courtesy Grupo de Diseño Urbano and the ...

In Richmond, Virginia, nature and industry collide in dramatic, obvious ways. Only a few blocks from the nexus of history represented by Monument Avenue and Arthur Ashe Boulevard, a series of bridges ...

When you’re in the backyard of this house in Portola Valley, overlooking the San Francisco Bay, you feel like you’re on the edge of the world. It’s the kind of view that you only get after you’ve put ...