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

If you look closely, three of the cylindrical concrete stools arranged on the sidewalk in front of Love Bank Park in St. Louis are different from the rest. They’re smaller and a little misshapen, the ...

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 ...

Bricks are so ubiquitous on the campus of North Carolina State University (NC State) that it is a tradition for graduating students to take one as a memento. Hundreds of thousands of fired clay pavers ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA, and Amy Wagenfeld published Therapeutic Gardens: Design for Healing Spaces in 2015, it quickly became a foundational text in the then-developing field of healing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...