Edited by B. Cannon Ivers; Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser, 2021; 512 pages, $34.99.
Reviewed by Gale Fulton, ASLA
A former Toronto brickworks, now a city dump, makes Jane Mah Hutton’s point to consider material afterlives. Courtesy City of Toronto Archives.
What does a 21st-century landscape architect need to know?
The question is daunting. At least it should be, in the field and especially for those of us in academia who are tasked with laying the foundation on which future landscape architects will continue to build throughout their careers. But determining which skills and what knowledge are essential in such an expansive discipline is elusive at best. The book 250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know attempts an answer.Continue reading The Rule Book→
Designed plant communities are composed of “design layers” that provide the primary aesthetic interest, and “functional layers” that perform essential functions such as erosion control, soil building, and weed suppression.
Several conditions of the contemporary world present serious challenges to traditional or conventional ways of thinking and making in landscape architecture. Continue reading How the Garden Moves→
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