Floridians are rallying to restore a rare Dan Kiley landscape, starting with 800 trees.
By Timothy A. Schuler
On June 17, 1988, life changed for Laurie Potier-Brown, ASLA. Continue reading A Campaign for Kiley
A Campaign for Kiley
Monthly Archives: September 2021
Art Director’s Cut: Worlds Away
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
“Winter at Glenstone.”
–Chris McGee, LAM Art Director
From “Worlds Away” by Glenn Dixon in the September 2021 issue, about PWP’s Glenstone museum outside Washington, D.C., which makes a monument out of its art and its landscape.
Thaw-Scape Scrutiny
Federally funded research will help set a baseline for how to build in the Arctic.
By Zach Mortice
In Alaska, beyond the Arctic Circle in North Slope Borough, Indigenous communities practice subsistence whale hunting. To store the whale meat, tribal communities dig ice cellars in the permafrost, a major infrastructural feat, as a 50-ton whale can feed thousands. Continue reading Thaw-Scape Scrutiny
Art Director’s Cut: Reappearing Act
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
“Long forgotten, now remembered.”
–Chris McGee, LAM Art Director
From “Reappearing Act” by Jonathan Lerner in the September 2021 issue, about Anjelica Gallegos’s plan to revive a memorial for Indigenous people on the shores of Staten Island.
Finding Community in the Floodwaters
Designers from SCAPE’s New Orleans and New York offices talk about the lessons from Hurricane Ida, in and out of the office.
By Jennifer Reut
In early September, a few days after Hurricane Ida raked through Louisiana on its way up the East Coast, three designers from SCAPE Studio met up on Zoom to talk with Landscape Architecture Magazine’s Acting Editor, Jennifer Reut, about Ida’s aftermath. Continue reading Finding Community in the Floodwaters
Licensure on the Line
This article is also available in Spanish
Years of politically motivated attacks have put professional licensure at risk. Now, the design professions and their allies are banding together to protect it.
By Stephen Zacks
The state of Virginia has regulated landscape architecture as a profession since 1980, certifying practitioners through its professional occupational agency. In 2010, landscape architecture became a licensed profession in the state.
Art Director’s Cut: Worlds Away
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM.
“Inside out pond garden.”
–Chris McGee, LAM Art Director
From “Worlds Away” by Glenn Dixon in the September 2021 issue, about PWP Landscape Architecture’s Glenstone museum outside Washington, D.C., where landscapes that shift through the seasons complement monumental sculpture.