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overlay, Paris
Posted in Toby's posts on January 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
overlay, Rome
Posted in Toby's posts on January 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
at the Collosseum
other colors
Posted in Plants, Toby's posts on December 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
more gold
Posted in Toby's posts on December 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
another slow bridge
Posted in Places, Toby's posts, tagged bridge of flowers, high line, promenade plantee, shelburne falls, slow landscape on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Before Paris had the Promenade Plantée, before New York had the High Line, Shelburne Falls had the Bridge of Flowers.
slow bridge
Posted in Places, Toby's posts, tagged bridge, grafton, slow landscape on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More by Fletcher Steele
Posted in Places, Toby's posts, tagged Fletcher Steele, Turner Garden on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Compression” isn’t a term often used to describe landscape spaces, but at the Turner Garden outside Rochester, New York, Fletcher Steele made an elliptical pool into an intensely compressed space. The small pool opens to a terrace at one end and a vista at the other (with a narrow rill — again! — leading towards [...]
Site Engineering 1, part three
Posted in Miscellaneous, Teaching, Toby's posts, tagged BAC, landscape architecture, landscape institute on September 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Slope is simple, but slope is hard. It’s a simple equation with elusive variables. And it doesn’t help that landscape architects toss around up to four different conventions for describing slope — not even counting the most obvious one, angle, which makes sense on paper but is close to useless in the field. It’s hard [...]
Site Engineering 1, part two
Posted in Miscellaneous, Toby's posts on September 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In which y/x proves to be less than enough. My previous post about the course I’m teaching, here, was all about immersion and experience. Good stuff, but now that I’ve immersed my students, it falls to me to help them climb back out. In “real life,” contour interpolation looks like that, but in real life, [...]
You can tell a Landscape Architect . . .
Posted in Miscellaneous, Toby's posts on September 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Responding at length to Deb’s question . . . Landscape architecture is a funny trade, and attracting landscape architects to events isn’t easy. Here are some thoughts on how to motivate them: Landscape architects make up a tiny minority within the design professions, the “green industry,” and the green movement. Most events of potential interest [...]
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