 |
Q and A with Liat Margolis, author Living Systems
Published in 2007 as a compendium of green design techniques and resources Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture has become part of the new intellectual capital that is emerging from the landscape architecture/landscape urbanism field.
Earlier this year, Danielle Choi, one of our regular contributors was able to sit down with author, Liat Margolis and speak with her about the origins of this book, these new inroads for the discipline of landscape architecture and landscape urbanism as well as upcoming future projects for Liat.
Get Your Own Park!
New York Magazine tells us of Central Park what is true of nearly every public space in the world: there's not enough of it to go around and everyone thinks someone else is using more than their share. Can't we all just get along?
What's in a Name?
The first published letter in response to the New York Times Magazine architecture issue laments that despite the interesting innovations of architects covered therein, the respondent "would have liked to have seen perspectives from landscape architects, or what some refer to as 'landscape urbanism' ".
Giving the benefit of the doubt, the letter may very well have meant to say that in an issue of the magazine entitled "The Next City", the NYT was remiss not to feature the important contributions which landscape architects are making to the cities we will live in tomorrow.
Out of Thin Air
The Boston Globe has a lengthy feature on Sasaki Associates, using their design for Beijing's new Forest Park as a point of departure to examine work on brownfields and other residual spaces on the part of SA as well as the wider profession. Would that they had used some other image for the web version of the article that didn't reinforce the image of landscape architects as either do-gooders before designers (or perhaps more truthfully, impoverished enough to go looking anywhere for sustenance).
Catastrophe Folds
Jolie Kaytes, Washington State University professor of landscape architecture, explores inevitable rearrangements of California geography through the medium of origami. Her work The Gridshifter is being shown at City | Space in San Francisco.