What landscape architects need to know. A humble attitude brought the Charlotte firm work for three decades. Pulling out of ...

What landscape architects need to know. Eight Gulf Coast practitioners reflect on landscape architecture’s evolution and the success of community-based projects. On August 29, 2005, the tropical ...

In 2014, six years after the Great Recession showed up at LandDesign’s doorsteps, Rhett Crocker, ASLA, was looking to lead the firm out of survival mode. Crocker had just become the firm’s fifth ...

Midway through Silt Sand Slurry: Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making, Rob Holmes, ASLA; Brett Milligan, ASLA; and Gena Wirth, ASLA, describe a clamshell dredger used to yank up muck from ...

In 2014, six years after the Great Recession showed up at LandDesign’s doorsteps, Rhett Crocker, ASLA, was looking to lead the firm out of survival mode. Crocker had just become the firm’s fifth ...

Movable seating, tents, and a kiosk transformed the court into a place to support new social interactions. Image courtesy Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and the Center for Court Innovation. In ...

Decomposed granite pavement (DG) is a textured and responsive paving material used on paths and plazas. Yet the quiet appearance of DG masks material and construction complexities that shape the ...

A zigzagging network of wide paved paths brings pedestrians and cyclists down to the lake. Photo by Jin He-Candido, ASLA. “Everything in Lakeshore East is built up, not down,” says Linda Kozloski, the ...

Unlike architecture, landscape architecture evolves (and almost always improves) through time. Its parks and gardens are never complete. Or rather the finished landscape of today is not the finished ...

“This is one of the rarest trees in the United States,” says Andrew Wyatt of the Missouri Botanical Garden, pointing to one of two Virginia round-leaf birch trees planted outside the garden’s new Jack ...

Gulf State Park in Alabama is one of the largest public projects to be funded through the Deepwater Horizon settlement. Many more are coming. The Lodge at Gulf State Park was rebuilt as a sustainable ...