Bocce, the horseshoes for hipster, is suddenly everywhere.
By Dave McKenna
It takes more than balls to turn a backyard into a bocce haven. Just ask Alex Heard. Continue reading Bocce, Huh?
Bocce, Huh?
Welcome to Frackville
Shale drilling booms, like the Marcellus craze in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, sacrifice living landscapes in to volatile bets about what lies below.
By Kim Sorvig
Five and a half years ago, I learned we might lose our home to oil drilling. Continue reading Welcome to Frackville
Sold Out
After a recession, a brake on plant production, and widespread nursery failures, finding the plants you want for a project could be tough.
By Anne Raver
After four long, slow years, the housing market is picking up, and landscape architects are beginning to get more calls about work. But after such a long slump, there’s a potentially big problem: Where are they going to find the high-quality plants they need? Continue reading Sold Out
A Trail of Stumps
Ipe is the most common tropical hardwood decking material in the United States, but the way it is harvested has raised concerns among ecologists.
By Jane Hutton
“This John Chipman bench was planted 500 years before Columbus sailed for America,” reads a Landscape Forms ad from a 1973 issue of this magazine. The familiar slatted bench is shown towering over a forest canopy. Its base is anchored to a colossal redwood stump. “When you have a site furnishing job to do, think about Chipman in 1,000-year-old redwood,” the ad says. “Even if your benches only have to last another 100 years.” Continue reading A Trail of Stumps
The Fearless Grady Clay
Few journalists have had a greater impact on the field of landscape architecture than Grady Clay, Honorary ASLA, who died on Sunday at the age of 96. He was the editor of this magazine for nearly a quarter century—from 1960 to 1984. He chaired the commission that selected Maya Lin’s solemn design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, was intimately involved with one of the first ecological planning studies in the United States, and apparently coined the term “New Urbanist.” Continue reading The Fearless Grady Clay
Grady Clay, the Agitator
Former longtime editor Grady Clay, Honorary ASLA, looks back at a life spent with the landscape.
By Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA
We were sad to receive word of the death Sunday of Grady Clay, Honorary ASLA, LAM’s longtime, influential, and much-loved editor, at the age of 96 in Louisville. More remembrance and details on observances will follow as we receive them. For now, we are posting a terrific interview that Charles Birnbaum, FASLA, did with Grady for the magazine’s 100th anniversary issue. Continue reading Grady Clay, the Agitator
Landscapes Over Time
With any luck, you’ll stay close to your projects as they season. But you have to design and plan as if they you won’t.
By Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, with William S. Saunders
Unlike architecture, landscape architecture evolves (and almost always improves) through time. Continue reading Landscapes Over Time