What is Urban Agriculture? How does it concern Landscape Architects? Is it some hipster trend that everyone seems to be latching on to these days, or does it have its roots in historic precedents? Is it a sustainable form of food production? If you’re interested in these questions, be sure to check out the books [...]
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TODAY! 3:30 PM! 601 BRANNAN!
The students of LAN 498/695 are a week away from presenting their schematic designs for an AAU Parklet to the City of San Francisco. Today from 3:30pm- 6:30 they will be showcasing their designs as well as a full scale prototype of one of the elements in their parklet in the First Floor Presentation Space [...]
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Baummuseum, Switzerland
Project: Baummuseum Designed by: Enzo Enea Location: Switzerland The Tree Museum (Baummuseum) situated on 75,000 square meters of breathtaking land near Upper Lake Zurich in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, has officially opened its gates. The Tree Museum exhibits individual trees from the collection of Enzo Enea, the Swiss landscape architect and one of the world’s most prominent [...]
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Green Roof Garden Pavilion
Designer: Jeffrey Gordon Smith Project Type: Residential Project Location: Shell Beach, CA Source: Land8
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SPRING SHOW ENTRIES
The semester is quickly coming to a close… Get your Spring show entries in ASAP! Please find the instructions below: Deadline for submittals : May 17th, 2013 Select examples of your best work from any of your Landscape Architecture classes and studios, including ARH 110 class, fromFall 2012 to Spring 2013. Any work older than Fall 2012 will not be [...]
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Literature in the Landscape
Landscapes of the world have been influenced by literature and art throughout the centuries and transversely have acted as muses for writers and painters. The couplets below were written by Alexander Pope in the 18th Century in his work entitled “An Epistle to Lord Burlington”. This beautiful piece is testament to the switch from Renaissance [...]
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Red Mountain / Green Ribbon
Source: American Society of Landscape Architects – Analysis and Planning Every year, the ASLA grants honors and awards for various Landscape architectural and Land Planning categories. In 2012 the Red Mountain Park Master Plan in Birmingham, AL, received an honor award and was described as follows: “Red Mountain Park is the largest urban park in [...]
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Big win for BIG
Danish Architecture firm, BIG has won yet another international competition for Europa City. Check out the article below and weigh in on with your thoughts on the project. Happy Reading! Written by: Irina Vinnitskaya Source: www.archdaily.com “Danish architecture firm, BIG - led by Bjarke Ingels – has been announced as the winner of an international invited competition for [...]
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Exhibit at SF MOMA
Architect Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) dedicated his career to probing architecture’s potential to transform the individual and the collective. His visionary drawings depict places of free thought, sometimes in identifiable locations destroyed by war or natural disaster, but often in future cities. The extensive drawings and models on view present an original perspective on the built [...]
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We Have a Winner!!!!!
SILVER MEDAL for “Life in the Balance”!!!!!! Another BIG win for the Academy of Art University’s School of Landscape Architecture at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show! CONGRATULATIONS TO THE STUDENTS OF LAN 498/695 ! “Life in the Balance”, a design collaboration led by Tim Reuss (IDS), brings to life the Chinese philosophy of Yin and [...]
