WILD HOGS
NASA New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation is working to contain a pack of feral pigs before they reach Adirondack State Park, the largest area of wilderness in the Northeastern United...
View ArticlePLANT DETECTOR
AP Photo/Craig Ruttle U.S. Customs and Border Protection at JFK Airport in New York City has a detector that will find food or plants in airport luggage in seconds, saving hours of work by human...
View ArticleA SPRING FLUSH ON THE COLORADO
By KEVAN WILLIAMS A 2013 aerial view of the Morelos Dam on the Colorado River. Mexico is in the background. Photo: Bureau of Reclamation. The once expansive and vibrant Colorado River Delta has been...
View ArticleTHE QUEUE, JUNE 2014
A monthly roundup of the news, dispatches, and marginalia that caught our eye. This month’s issue of the Queue delights in OLIN Studio’s new digital magazine, absorbs the inevitable wave of backflow on...
View ArticleNOVEMBER’S LAM: HUGE!
Click to view slideshow. The 272-page November issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine is the biggest of the year, if not the past five. Why the extra muscle? Perhaps abundance is in the air: This...
View ArticleJUNE AT YOUR DOORSTEP
Click to view slideshow. June’s issue of LAM looks at the tough choices that landscape architecture firms, such as Sasaki Associates and OLIN, must face when updating for a new era; the rustic...
View ArticleART DIRECTOR’S CUT, SEPTEMBER 22
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. Wrought iron step and brick facade overcome by time. Credit: Future Green Studio. From “In the Weeds” by Nate...
View ArticlePRAIRIE SAGE
A new film focuses on Jens Jensen. From the April 2015 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Jens Jensen didn’t care much for the White City. According to the new documentary Jens Jensen: The...
View ArticleLIVESTOCK AND THE RHYTHM OF THE LAND
BY ZACH MORTICE All photos by Jose Ahedo. Over the course of two years, the Spanish architect Jose Ahedo visited livestock farming landscapes in eight countries: Mongolia, China, Paraguay, Germany,...
View ArticleMAY LAM: MICROLOCAL
Click to view slideshow. You can almost watch it come to life on the page: In the sprawl of Bangkok, an illegal dump the size of a large city block was scraped clean, sculpted, and planted thickly with...
View ArticleNOVEMBER LAM: THE STREETS OF TOMORROW
Click to view slideshow. Technologist landscape architects rejoice—the November issue of LAM is packed with imagined scenarios, myth breakers, and tantalizing possible futures for urban design. Whether...
View ArticleRAISING CANES
BY JANE BERGER There’s a lot to love about bamboo. FROM THE NOVEMBER 2017 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. Thousands of lucky San Franciscans will soon be walking through a bamboo forest on...
View ArticleA FOREST IN THE CITY IN THE FOREST / UN BOSQUE EN LA CIUDAD EN EL BOSQUE
As part of an ongoing effort to make content more accessible, LAM will be making select stories available to readers in Spanish. For a full list of translated articles, please click here. Click above...
View ArticleMARCH LAM: GGN PORTFOLIO
Click to view slideshow. It’s the first, which means March’s issue of LAM is here! You’ll find these stories inside: FOREGROUND The Tiny Menace (Ecology) The shot hole borer is having a deadly impact...
View ArticleTHE TINY MENACE
BY ANNE RAVER Two closely related Asian beetles are boring their way through Southern California’s trees. FROM THE MARCH 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. Smaller than sesame seeds, two...
View ArticleNOVEMBER LAM: ACROSS TWO COASTS
Click to view slideshow. It’s the first of November, which means the latest issue of LAM is here! You’ll find these stories inside: FOREGROUND Lighting from the Inside Out (Lighting) With the rising...
View ArticleTHE HUNTRESS
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER / PHOTOGRAPHY BY GABRIELLA MARKS With her one-woman practice, Radicle, Christie Green works to repair our relationship with nature—including the animals and plants we eat. FROM...
View ArticleNATURAL RESTING PLACE
BY LYDIA LEE The world’s first SITES-certified cemetery is designed as a successional forest. FROM THE AUGUST 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. In the summer, the 400 grave sites in a...
View ArticleTHE WATER YOU CAN’T SEE
BY KOFI BOONE, ASLA A civic hydrology park emerges on Duke University’s campus. FROM THE DECEMBER 2019 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. Having lived in Durham, North Carolina, for more than a...
View ArticleROADSIDE REALM
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY TARA MITCHELL The unseen world of little bluestem grasslands. FROM THE MARCH 2021 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. Roadsides are a tough place for any form of life....
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