That last post made a good point — sometimes the leftovers in a landscape can be used as a feature in and of itself — but I much prefer the photo here. This hemlock is very much alive, and lives outside of Boston on private property. Carl Cathcart, Consulting Arborist, took me to see this [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sensory experience of landscape’
Thriving live hemlock
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged hemlock, landscape, Plant management, Plants, sensory experience of landscape, tree planting, trees on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Tilted planes
Posted in Deb's posts, Materials, Miscellaneous, Places, What we're thinking, tagged Cornell Arts Quad, engage with landscape, landscape, landscape architecture, linkedin, sensory experience of landscape, spatial design, tilted planes, turf panels on August 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
To digress just a little from the line discussion: That Parc Citroen photo puts me in mind of the Cornell Arts Quad, around which are ranged some of Cornell’s most historically and academically significant buildings. The Arts Quad is huge (obviously not what it has in common with the Parc Citroen lawns shown), and there [...]
The ins and outs of it
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Walls, What we're thinking, tagged complexity in design, linkedin, sensory experience of landscape, Walls on August 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Like that Steinberg drawing, the Parisian building facade pushes in and pushes out, has ceilings and floors, and carves places — albeit the tiny ones of deep sills and shallow entryways — out of mass. Items get applied, chunks get taken out. It’s easier to see those thicker building walls in older American cities — [...]
Hold that light a little closer, please
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, Places, tagged landscape architecture, lighting, sensory experience of landscape, small urban parks on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I tagged trees for a project last week at Millican’s Nursery and swung through Concord, NH, on the way back. A through-building alley off Pleasant Street (the main drag) led to Bicentennial Square, an eclectic in-block park built in the 70s and updated in the 90s. It has quite a mix of elements: brick waterwall, [...]
Wallis Howe Part 2
Posted in Gristmill, Places, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, sensory experience of landscape, step design, walkway design, Wallis E. Howe on June 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In my first Influences post, I neglected to mention some things that made the Providence house I grew up in such a great design curriculum. I carry with me, and use in my work, several key principles. 1. The house’s front entry sequence was an exercise in welcome: wide bluestone steps, wide gravel walk, wide [...]
Extractive landscape
Posted in Miscellaneous, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged hedges, hedging, landscape, landscape architecture, Plants, sensory experience of landscape on May 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was thinking today about the way that our culture is largely extractive — we pull apart individual elements out of natural materials, and use those elements for specialized purposes (oil from the ground to power the internal combustion engine, vitamins from food to recombine into other foods, etc.). We are now seeing the limits [...]
Bamboo grove
Posted in Gristmill, What we're thinking, tagged bamboo art, engage with landscape, sensory experience of landscape on February 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Bach got me thinking about the uses of our non-visual senses in landscape architecture. Scent — well, everyone has to do at least one fragrance garden, and then realizes that fragrance may somehow winkle its way into every planted landscape, and that it’s often really the interaction between humans and plants that ratchet [...]
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