Conversations on Landscape Architecture

Conversations on Landscape Architecture brings you inside thoughtful, wide-ranging conversations with the practitioners, educators, researchers, and leaders shaping the profession. Through candid dialogue, the series explores how landscape architects approach their work, what they’re grappling with, what’s changing, and what’s guiding their decisions across practice, policy, education, and the public realm. 

Landscape Architects & Landscape Designers (U.S.)

 


Diane Jones Allen, FASLA

on How to Partner with Diverse Communities

Jose Alminana, FASLA

on Sustainable Landscape Architecture

Diana Balmori, FASLA

on Making Cities Work Like Nature

Thomas Balsley, FASLA

on 21st Century Waterfront Parks

John Bela, ASLA

on User-generated Urbanism

Keith Bowers, FASLA

on Enhancing Biodiversity

Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, FASLA

on Philadelphia's Green Infrastructure

Andrea Cochran, FASLA

on Designing Landscapes that Enable Scientific Research

Kevin Conger, ASLA

on the Benefits of Mini Parks

Pamela Conrad, ASLA

on Climate Positive Design

Robert Gibbs, FASLA

on the Landscape of Retail

Kona Gray, FASLA

on Greening Tourism

Deb Guenther, FASLA

on Designing with Equity

Kathryn Gustafson, FASLA

on Using Urban Parks to Fight Sprawl

Chris Hardy, FASLA

on Decarbonizing Design

Walter Hood, ASLA

on Amplifying Black Narratives in Landscapes

Brian Johnston, ASLA

on the Landscape of Autism

Mary Margaret Jones, FASLA

on the Transformative Impact of Landscape Architecture

Mikyoung Kim, FASLA

on How to Design for Our Hybridized Lives

Mia Lehrer, FASLA

on Community Participation in Design

Patricia O'Donnell, FASLA

on Revitalizing Historic Landscapes

Kate Orff, FASLA

on Resilient Landscape Design

Laurie Olin, FASLA

on OLIN’s Award-winning Landscape Architecture

Marion Pressley, FASLA

on Designing with History

Chris Reed, FASLA

on Cutting-edge Landscape Research and Design

Mark Rios, FASLA

on Los Angeles' Plan to Become More Sustainable

Ken Smith, FASLA

Ken Smith Landscape Architecture, on Green Infrastructure

Anne Whiston Spirn, FASLA

on Landscape Literacy

Christine Ten Eyck, FASLA

on Landscape Architecture in the Era of Drought

Jennifer Toole, FASLA

on How to Get More People on Bikes

Sadafumi Uchiyama, ASLA

on Designing Peace and Harmony

Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA

on the Buzz Words "Landscape Urbanism" and "Ecological Urbanism"

William Wenk, FASLA

on Denver's Efforts to Become a More Sustainable City

Sara Zewde, ASLA

on Finding Creative Inspiration from People and Place

Landscape Architects and Landscape Designers (International)

 


Jinny Blom

on the Therapeutic Effect of Gardens

Vladimir Djurovic, ASLA

on His Memorial to King Hussein of Jordan

Herbert Dreiseitl

on Designing with Water

Hitesh Mehta, FASLA

on Spirituality and Sustainability

Mario Schjetnan, FASLA

Mexico’s Leading Landscape Architect, on Global Mega-Cities

Martha Schwartz, FASLA

on the Power of Design

Greg Smallenberg, FASLA

on Landscape Architecture in Canada

Kongjian Yu, FASLA

on China’s Environmental Crisis

Artists

 


Marion Brenner

on Photographing Landscape Architecture

Janet Echelman

on Public Art

Toody Maher

on Community Development

Authors

 


Anthony Flint

Author of Wrestling with Moses, on Jane Jacob's Influence on Park Design

Caroline Fraser

Author of Rewilding the World, on Large-Scale Ecological Restoration

Fritz Haeg

Author of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, on Urban Agriculture

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Author of Crow Planet, on Designing for Biodiversity