In honor of Frederick Law Olmsted’s birthday today, many landscape architects will be taking to the streets to tell the world about what they do. Meanwhile, Slate is marking the occasion with a gallery of photos from Olmsted’s most famous commission, Central Park, and an excerpt from a new anthology of essays showing that park’s place in the public imagination, edited by Andrew Blauner.
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Every month, we publish original stories from the print magazine on our website. "Life Insurance for Plants" is the latest, and it details the ways in which plant warranties are a symptom of a broader issue with maintenance. The author, Andrew Lavallee, is a partner at SiteWorks LLC, a construction management and landscape architecture firm, and he brings a wealth of experience in building and maintaining complex landscape designs to the piece. You can also read features from the February issue on AI in landscape architecture and Christie Green, a landscape designer with an unusual relationship to food. Link in the bio.We get ideas from all over. Yet the question of how we get stories into the magazine is shrouded in--if not mystery, at least bewilderment. We've recently pulled together a guide to the What, How, and Where of pitching projects and story ideas to the magazine and put it right on our blog for anyone to read. Come check out our newly published guidelines to pitching LAM, and let us know what's on your mind? bit.ly/2StynmWThe February issue is out! The impact of Artificial Intelligence in landscape architecture is being felt in public space research, landscape conservation, and the graduate studio. The cover story by @mimizeiger “Live and Learn," examines how emerging technologies are rapidly evolving landscape design. look for it online February 12. Images by XL Lab/SWA GroupScenes From the uncountable hours Art Director @mcmantle and Senior Editor @jenniferxjennifer spend working through feature layouts. Figuring out how to tell the visual story in parallel with the written narrative is a bit of a dance. You don’t want the images to just illustrate the story, but to complement and extend it. A striking visual storyline should provoke as many questions as it answers.LIKE LAM ON FACEBOOK
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