Landscape Architects Mix Art, Engineering, Geology to Create Enjoyable Spaces
The Washington Post
09/11/10
“City planners generate master plans delineating street patterns and the general shape of civic spaces constituting the public realm. Architects design buildings occupying such spaces. But it is often landscape architects who design in detail the open spaces set forth in master plans, who transform conceptual spaces into real spaces that ideally are beautiful, functional, safe and environmentally sustainable.” |
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A Sampling of Some Agency Initiatives
The Washington Post
09/09/2010“Department of Homeland Security is committing to using the Sustainable Sites Initiative for environmentally beneficial landscaping at its St. Elizabeth’s headquarters, which is under construction.” Project Living Proof Providing an Example of Sustainable Residential Gardens
Kansas City Star
09/04/2010
“The garden is Kansas City’s pilot project in the Sustainable Sites Initiative (also known as SITES), a partnership between the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden. The groups are working to develop a rating system for sustainable landscape design, comparable to LEED certification for buildings.” Homage to Edward L. Blake, a Giant in His Field
Hattiesburg American
09/12/2010
“Hattiesburg's green giant stood out in a crowd, and not simply because of his towering 6-foot, 7-inch frame. Frequently seen around town sporting a beret, a bolo tie, chunky Native American rings and red Crocs as big as bread loaves, landscape architect Ed Blake was unique.” A New Development
Pasadena Star-News
09/06/2010
“As she sat to discuss helming one of the city's key departments, new Development Services Director Amy Bodek lamented the potential loss of anonymity in the community….Education: Bachelor's degree in environmental design from Cornell University, master's degree in urban planning from New York University and a certificate in landscape architecture from UCLA, certified planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners and a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Urban Land Institute.” West Virginia Vacation Community Developed to Embrace Nature
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
09/15/2010
“Nestled on 850 acres on the canyon rim some 900 feet above the New River, the development was conceptualized by Charlottesville, Va., landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz, who with Paul Murdoch Architects is designing the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Somerset County.” Artistic Walkway May Get Federal Funding
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
09/14/2010
“Curtain Call, in a design by landscape architect Walter Hood of Oakland, Calif., is a walkway of steps amid rain gardens and recesses wrapped in three-dimensional ‘curtains’ of glass tile, each block holding a polyvinyl image of Hill District denizens, past and present.” Finalists Named In Competition to Design I-70 Wildlife Crossing on Vail Pass
Denver Post
09/13/2010
“Finalists were selected from 36 team submissions from nine countries, with more than 100 firms from around the world involved, according to the institute.Teams included architects, engineers, landscape architects, ecologists and wildlife biologists.” Part 1: Blue Ridge Parkway at 75 - A Road Out of Time
HamptonRoads.com
09/13/2010
“The 470-mile road was designed for the new pastime of leisure motoring, and it was designed by Stanley Abbott, a young man with a degree in landscape architecture who hired his out-of-work professors from Cornell University to help make a road that would “’ay gently on the land.’” Why Smaller Can Mean Better
Detroit Free Press
09/12/2010
“Joan Nassauer, a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Michigan, told me she can see that sort of future for Detroit. ‘Honestly, a hundred years from now,’ she said, ‘I can imagine a city that has an even more extensive and accessible system of open space, but where Detroit's apparent advantages are so attractive that the parts of the city that are built upon are way more dense than they are now. It could be a city of two and a half million. It could be a city of four million, but with more open space and higher density in the developed areas.’" Icon of a Fair, a Borough, the World
The Wall Street Journal - Europe
09/11/2010
“Moses turned to Gilmore D. Clarke for a solution to the fair's looming identity crisis. Then the nation's leading landscape architect, Clarke was one of Moses's most trusted confidantes. He and partner Michael Rapuano were responsible for many of the parks, parkways and housing projects of the Moses era. Rapuano had laid out the 1939 fair, and it was Clarke who convinced Moses to reuse the site, thus saving a fortune that would have been spent on rerouted utilities and new landscaping.” In Trees vs. Fashion Week, Trees Lose: 56 Cut Down in NYC
Planet Green
09/10/2010
“That's right—the city chopped down 56 trees to make space for, um, Fashion Week. The Daily News reports that while the Parks Department said the trees were 'declining' anyway,’ landscape architects say they were in good condition, especially considering their urban environment.” KHS Dedicates Pioneer Circle
Webster-Kirkwood Times
09/10/2010
“Guests recognized at the dedication included Evelyn Terrall, who donated in memory of her son, William Hosack Jr., KHS Class of 1966; Jim Fetterman, KHS Class of 1969, who donated his services as a landscape architect; Sara Crook, representing the Class of 1970; State Rep. Rick Stream, representing the Class of 1967; Bruce Gamble, representing the Class of 1969; Brother Mel Meyer; and KHS art teachers David Spiguzza and Nancy Grimes.” South Street Mall and Courts Set to Reopen This Month
Boston.com
09/08/2010
“Ray Dunetz Landscape Architecture collaborated with local environmental sculptor Beth Galston to create ‘an exciting artistic feature that reflects the culture of the local residents and meets their contemporary needs for urban living,’ according to the architecture company’s website.”
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