What landscape architects need to know. A humble attitude brought the Charlotte firm work for three decades. Pulling out of ...

What landscape architects need to know. Eight Gulf Coast practitioners reflect on landscape architecture’s evolution and the success of community-based projects. On August 29, 2005, the tropical ...

In 2014, six years after the Great Recession showed up at LandDesign’s doorsteps, Rhett Crocker, ASLA, was looking to lead the firm out of survival mode. Crocker had just become the firm’s fifth ...

In 2014, six years after the Great Recession showed up at LandDesign’s doorsteps, Rhett Crocker, ASLA, was looking to lead the firm out of survival mode. Crocker had just become the firm’s fifth ...

Midway through Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making, Rob Holmes, ASLA; Brett Milligan, ASLA; and Gena Wirth, ASLA, describe a clamshell dredger used to yank up muck from ...

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 ...

Decomposed granite pavement (DG) is a textured and responsive paving material used on paths and plazas. Yet the quiet appearance of DG masks material and construction complexities that shape the ...

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 ...

Stephen Stimson, FASLA, and Lauren Stimson, ASLA, built a new house and utility building on property Steve’s family has long farmed. Photo by Ngoc Doan. Outside the kitchen door of the Massachusetts ...

Gulf State Park in Alabama is one of the largest public projects to be funded through the Deepwater Horizon settlement. Many more are coming. The Lodge at Gulf State Park was rebuilt as a sustainable ...

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 ...