Last week, Deb and I discussed “the New York Times‘s increasingly goofy treatment of landscape and horticulture, including their astonishing discovery of the tree lawn, aka the “parkway” (Illinois) or “verge” (Britain).” This week, it’s The Wall Street Journal that’s on the verge. In an article on the Dictionary of American Regional English, they write: It’s [...]
Archive for the ‘Landscape architecture’ Category
landscape and crime
Posted in Landscape architecture, Toby's posts, tagged landscape architecture, parkway, tree lawn, verge, wall street journal on June 13, 2010 | 5 Comments »
iPhone apps for landscape architects
Posted in Landscape architecture, Toby's posts, Working Landscape, tagged AutoStitch Panorama, Convertbot, iPhone apps, iPhone apps for architects, iPhone apps for landscape architects, iPhone apps for landscape architecture, landscape architecture, My Measures on June 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’m still getting used to the idea of my phone as a serious tool, but I find I’m using it more and more. Here are some apps I’ve come to rely on: . I was taking site measurements with Susan Opton when she showed me My Measures and Dimensions. My Measures doesn’t actually take the [...]
taking place in other places
Posted in Landscape architecture, Toby's posts, tagged aesthetics of joy, bobulate, landscape architecture, places magazine, yale forestry on June 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In the list-making spirit of the moment, I’ve added four web sites to our “Sites We Like” blogroll, which lives on the right side of this page (scroll down). Below, I’ve linked below to some samples of what each of them does best: . Places was a one of the great design magazines. Without glitz [...]
Grist for the mill — landscape architects talk
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Toby's posts, Walls, What we're thinking, tagged ASLA, ISA, landscape, landscape architecture, LID Center, native plants, North End Parks, Rose Kennedy Greenway, spatial design, stone walls on June 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Every now and again Toby and I get together at a local coffeehouse to talk about our practices and about landscape architectural issues in general. Conversation never lags — as we did when we worked together at Copley-Wolff, and over meals with other LA friends, and even before then, when we were both grad students [...]
Memorial
Posted in Deb's posts, Landscape architecture, Places, What we're thinking, tagged commemoration, engage with landscape, landscape architecture, memorial design, sensory experience of landscape on May 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Downtown Boston teemed with people this past holiday weekend. Stroller brigades patrolled the streets, the scent of sunscreen wafted through the breeze, and a general air of well-being rested like a pleasantly warm blanket over the city. Friday, I had walked through Boston Common and seen the simple and remarkable memorial to Massachusetts’ fallen military [...]
a new rain garden at UMass Amherst
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Landscape architecture, Plants, Toby's posts, tagged landscape architecture on May 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
More here.
both/and
Posted in Landscape architecture, Miscellaneous, Plants, Toby's posts, tagged landscape architecture on May 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I should have known, of course. In a recent post on trees and pollen, I wrote: Bee-pollinated trees don’t bother to release the kind of pollen that makes you sneeze, and wind-pollinated plants don’t bother to attract bees. (There may be belt-and-suspenders plants out there that can be pollinated by wind but would like also to be pollinated by [...]
Ceci n’est pas un arbre
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Landscape architecture, Miscellaneous, Questions, What we're thinking, tagged landscape architecture on May 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Or, ‘This is not a tree’. Thinking again about, and then past the pollen issue, I wonder if humans had such strong allergic reactions in pre-industrial times. In much the same way that we have been using the world’s oceans as a dumping ground for every substance we don’t want to deal with, we have [...]
-
Authors
-
Recent Posts
-
Top Posts
Categories
Categories
Deborah Howe
Toby Wolf
