SEPTEMBER 2019

16 Letters

18 Land Matters

FOREGROUND

22 Now
A new home for salmon along Seattle’s waterfront; experiments with glass as a planting medium; a wood-lined rain garden at UC Davis; and more.
Edited by Timothy A. Schuler

48 Interview
Where Are We Sitting?
Thaïsa Way, FASLA, the new director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, wants to push the profession’s history in new directions.
By Bradford McKee

58 Office
A Merger Makes a New Market
Calvin Abe, FASLA, made moves toward an ownership transition for his Los Angeles firm, AHBE Landscape Architects, then pulled back, and then went for it with MIG.
By Zach Mortice

66 Goods
Home Oasis
Seating and fixtures for outside the castle.
By Emily Cox

FEATURES

76 No Us and Them
Forty years after its founding, the office of Andropogon, which received the 2018 ASLA Firm Award, keeps expanding the research base on which it was built and advancing the notion that people and nature are one.
By Jared Brey

 96 Downtown, Deliberately
Over 35 years, a featureless corner in Boise, Idaho, was galvanized to life by ZGF Architects with help from some local talent.
By Jonathan Lerner

112 Toronto in Deep
Below its towers, Toronto’s ravines carve dramatic veins of forest through the city. But their biodiversity is at risk of collapse under intense environmental pressures, and their guardians think they have not much time to reverse the problem.
By Lisa Owens Viani

THE BACK

128 Stretch Goals
The Regional Plan Association takes a cross-sectional, rather than site-driven, approach to envisioning New York City’s tristate area in 2040.
By Jennifer Reut

136 Books
Fall Books
A stack of intriguing reads to take you through year’s end.

158 Advertiser Index

159 Advertisers by Product Category

172 Backstory
Reading on High
The Rocky Mountain Land Library is building out a home in a high valley for a unique collection of books on its rugged part of the world.
By Bradford McKee