Answering another question with yet another question: How much biotic activity is there in a loam pile, over six feet in height, that has been sitting for more than 24 hours on a site? My understanding is that compost must be stored in windrows of no higher than six feet to avoid creating an anaerobic [...]
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Mixing soil 2
Posted in Gristmill, What we're thinking on December 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Or
Posted in What we're thinking on November 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Part of the big idea, I think, is that the walker isn’t the important element; the water running down the runnel is.
Influences 2 — Here’s why
Posted in What we're thinking on October 31, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m going to broaden the Influences discussion (and, following the obvious early trend of this blog, broaden the aim of the blog as well) and draw in horticultural references. In writing this website, it has come clear that if we discuss only design we will limit ourselves simply to that aspect of landscape architecture, while [...]
Education
Posted in 1, What we're thinking on October 28, 2008 | No Comments »
If you’re embarking on a new landscape project of some size, and have never hired a landscape architect or had a landscape contractor do work for you, one of the best ways you can make the process run smoothly is first to interview several landscape architects, and then several contractors.
Landscape costs can easily run [...]
Influences
Posted in What we're thinking on October 25, 2008 | No Comments »
So it seems a good time, after a long silent lull, to start a conversation about our design influences. To kick it off, I’ll mention my grandfather, Wallis Eastburn Howe, who was an architect in Providence, RI. He died when I was one year old, having lived into his nineties and having designed a number [...]
Micro post
Posted in What we're thinking on August 5, 2008 | No Comments »
The new issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine arrived yesterday, and at the end of the book, as always, was the Critic’s Corner section, in this case reviewing a Swedish park. The critique was mainly focused on the concept (which the author liked) and the park’s materials (some of which she didn’t like), and noted also [...]
It’s like a good mango
Posted in What we're thinking on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I don’t think it’s so bad to have work that steps away from the obvious and simply creates spaces that just feel good. There may be a lot involved in creating that good feeling, and we might consider it a compliment if a client or visitor to a space comes to realize over time why [...]
In praise of patios
Posted in What we're thinking on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Junichiro Tanizaki, who wrote the lovely little book In Praise Of Shadows, probably never imagined his title would be co-opted by a twenty-first century landscape architect who likes to design patios. But Tanizaki and I are both interested in exploring a humble element: for him, the richness of darkness, shadows, and the patination of old [...]
Taking care of it
Posted in What we're thinking on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I took a mid-May walk along the South Station - Wharf District piece of Boston’s Central Artery corridor last Sunday. Plantings in front of Rowe’s Wharf are thriving, as are weeds springing up and seeding in the same beds. I kept my mitts off the weeds for the most part, though I did pull the [...]
Graphic design, landscape architecture
Posted in What we're thinking on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday a friend and I were talking about his career plans. He’s a horticulturist, and has been grappling with the decision whether or not to go back to school to study landscape architecture. If he were to get a job in horticulture instead, and take classes on the side, he thought he might like to [...]
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