Tag Archives: By K. Katsma

Where Least Matters Most

May 15, 2018 Accounts @ Reason One Leave a comment

Traction believes landscape architecture is for the people, not just the elite.

By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

Community members use skills they learned in workshops to build a productive infiltration garden for food security and water filtration. Image courtesy Traction team members.

In 2016, as a student at the University of Washington, Coco Alarcón won the ASLA Student Residential Design Award of Excellence for his project to improve public health by creating food gardens in a soggy, stressed neighborhood in Iquitos, Peru. Continue reading Where Least Matters Most →

Environment, Parks, Plants, Preservation

Not Gone. Yet.

December 8, 2017 Accounts @ Reason One 3 Comments

Landslide 2017’s theme is Open Season on Open Space.

By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

**Bears Ears National Monument,** Blanding, Utah, designated December 28, 2016. *Photo © Josh Ewing, courtesy Friends of Cedar Mesa.*

In a time of great upheaval for the United States, it is hard to keep track of the many risks to our national landscapes. Continue reading Not Gone. Yet. →

Plants

Living on Air

December 5, 2016 Accounts @ Reason One Leave a comment

An obsession with epiphytes leads to an ASLA Student Award.

By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

fore_interview_epiphytes-dsc_0019_resize_final — *Courtesy Brandon Cornejo, Student ASLA.*

Brandon Cornejo, Student ASLA, wants to use epiphytes—plants that grow on other plants or materials and derive their nutrients from the air—to green the world. Continue reading Living on Air →

Plants

Plant Sheriff

August 18, 2015 Accounts @ Reason One 2 Comments

With new plant varieties hitting the market each year, someone has to make sure everyone plays by the rules.

By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

The people behind Plant Watch want the name alone to strike fear into anyone illegally propagating plants that are under patent protection. Continue reading Plant Sheriff →

Education

Chatham Shuts the Door

March 10, 2015 Accounts @ Reason One 2 Comments

After barely a decade, Chatham University’s landscape architecture program gets the ax.

By Katarina Katsma, ASLA

The decision, announced in a posting on the web page for Chatham University’s Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program, was rather sudden: “As of June 2014, Landscape Architecture degree programs at Chatham have been closed.” Continue reading Chatham Shuts the Door →