The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. order single copies of the print issue from ASLA. Annual subscriptions for LAM are a thrifty $59 for print and $44.25 for digital. Our subscription page has...

BY KIM O’CONNELL / PHOTOGRAPHY BY SAHAR COSTON-HARDY, AFFILIATE ASLA Three new landscapes in Washington, D.C., honor the common soldier and fill gaps in the capital city?s memorial narrative. FROM THE JUNE 2021 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE...

The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. order single copies of the print issue from ASLA. Annual subscriptions for LAM are a thrifty $59 for print and $44.25 for digital. Our subscription page has...

As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. BY NICHOLAS PEVZNER, YEKANG KO, AND KIRK DIAMOND, ASLA FROM THE JUNE 2021 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE...

BY JENNIFER REUT   FROM THE JUNE 2021 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE.   This spring, the Atlantic published an essay by David Treuer, the Ojibwe author of the highly lauded cultural history The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native...

BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER The path will connect the Greenwood Cultural Center with John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park, previously separated by the I-244 freeway. Image courtesy Google Earth. Now, as part of a centennial commemoration of the 1921...

Click to view slideshow. FOREGROUND Talking Points (Planning) The WELL Community Standard is touted as the new sustainability checklist, but is it just landscape architecture in new clothes" Reed Hilderbrand tries it out at a Florida...

   

BY LYDIA LEE FROM THE MAY 2021 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE    As landscape architects push the profession to become more equitable, some landscape architects and planners say it?s time to replace the industry-standard term ?master...

BY ZACH MORTICE This one-bedroom, one-bath ADU is part of Los Angeles’ ambitions effort to relive the need for affordable housing through ADUs built on single family home lots. Renderings courtesy Jennifer Bonner / MALL. Lean-to ADU, the name of...

BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER Without a natural water source, groundwater will be pumped from a well in the San Fernando Valley to maintain a consistent water elevation. Image courtesy LADWP. In 2013, following the passage of new federal drinking water...

The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.

BY KARL KRAUSE Mature trees provide vital shade at the Red Hook Houses, one of the largest public housing developments in Brooklyn. Photo © OLIN/Karl Krause. ?We?re often too reductionist in our approach to practicing CPTED. Because of this, we...

The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. order single copies of the print issue from ASLA. Annual subscriptions for LAM are a thrifty $59 for print and $44.25 for digital. Our subscription page has...

BY NINON SCOTTO DI UCCIO Instagram account: ?What do you think is the biggest challenge for minorities in obtaining leadership roles in landscape architecture" And what would you propose to remedy this challenge"? The prompt was part of NAMLA?s...

Click to view slideshow. FOREGROUND Print to Scale (Tech) A low-budget student project meets new 3-D printing technology, and an award-winning garden is the result.         Room to Lead (Advocacy) The National Association of Minority Landscape...

BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER Roberto Rovira, ASLA, mapped the surfaces of FIU?s School of Architecture building to identify spaces that could accommodate projection and physical distancing. Image courtesy Roberto Rovira, ASLA. As students trickle back to...

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