New research shows how Windhoek’s ‘Brown is Beautiful’ approach could use its dry landscape to protect the city from heat, drought and floods.
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Many plants and flowers have symbolic meanings, and their presence on a grave may reflect something unique about the deceased.
A landscape historian explains how a Victorian tradition became a tool for social change in 19th- and 20th-century Philadelphia.
In this bold and unusual exhibition, we listen to traditional owners and get inside the imaginations of eight of Australia’s most innovative landscape architecture studios.
Green spaces can be used as non-coercive modes of warfare to further social cohesion and diminish the likelihood of insurgency.
Hundreds of computer simulations point to a few best strategies for keeping homes safe from fire in a warming climate.
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the lack of green space available to those living in urban areas. Cities must be managed as ecosystems to make them more liveable and resilient.
Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of many great North American city parks, understood that ready access to nature made cities healthier places to live.
Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them.
About half of incarcerated women in the United States are mothers to children under age 18. Natural spaces within a prison can help maintain their mother-child bonds.
Some might scoff at the free-ranging ideas sparked by a competition to design future parks for Melbourne. But the legacy of a radical idea to green a CBD street in 1985 shows why we need such thinking.
Instead of building a wall on the US-Mexico border, a landscape architect calls for restoring the Rio Grande and turning its course into an international park – an idea first proposed in the 1930s.
Buildings, thinkers, books, films and works of art can ask central questions about how to live on this planet and its consequences.
The tea and crumpets vision of Englishness that Capability Brown brings to mind does him an injustice.
Celebrate the shift to renewable energy with bold designs that add to the landscape.
The recent security lapses at the White House have brought to the forefront the 13-year-old question of how to effectively secure public spaces. As officials weigh increasing perimeter security and installing…
I predict we’re going to hear a lot more from landscape architects in the coming years. There has long been a misunderstanding about what they actually do – “something about gardens” being a common response…
At Dark MOFO last week, the City of Hobart joined forces with the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) to commission New York artist/ landscape architect Vito Acconci to create an architectural prototype for…
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Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT, RMIT University
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Lecturer, School of Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania
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Knowledge Exchange Fellow, University of Oxford
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Associate professor of Architecture, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Architecture & Built Environment, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Arkansas
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Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia
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Assisant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director, Green Infrastructure Performance Lab, Dalhousie University
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Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida