Posted in ONLINE ONLY, PEOPLE, PRACTICE, tagged Aggregation, ArchDaily, Architizer, Audience, Content, Forum, Internet, Land8, Landscape architects, Landscape Architects Network, Landscape Architecture, landscape design, Matt Alcide, Media, Merger, Original Content, Product Manufacturers, scott renwick, social media, sponsorship on August 10, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Image courtesy of Land8: Landscape Architects Network.
The landscape architecture websites Land8 and Landscape Architects Network (LAN) have merged. The resulting media platform aims to add focus to original content creation while serving an international audience. “We want to be the most visited website in landscape architecture,” says Matt Alcide, Land8’s majority owner.
LAN will largely dissolve into Land8 with the merger, as the Arlington, Virginia-based Land8 will (more…)
Posted in ASLA, EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY, tagged #LABASH2015, #WLA, ASLA Parklet, ASLA Student Chapter, BLA, California Polytechnic State University, Kona Gray, Landscape architects, landscape architecture students, Laurie Olin, Mia Lehrer, MLA, Richard Zwiefel, San Luis Obispo, Susan Van Atta on March 12, 2015| Leave a Comment »
LAM will be in the house at this year’s LABASH, the annual student-led landscape architecture conference, which looks to be the sleeper hit of the spring. Hosted by California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in San Luis Obispo, California, the gathering’s program includes Kona Gray, ASLA; Mia Lehrer, FASLA; Susan Van Atta, FASLA; and Laurie Olin, FASLA—just a few of the big names who will be attending and meeting with students.
The three-day conference combines portfolio reviews, panels, tours, charrettes, and workshops organized by and for landscape architecture students. It’s LAM’s first year attending LABASH, and we are pretty excited about the slate of events and people coming together this year. And let’s face it, California’s legendary Central Coast is no small draw.
Associate Editor Jennifer Reut will be speaking on Saturday afternoon about how the magazine is put together, and ASLA staff Leighton Yates, James Taylor, Barbara Fles, and Debbie Steinberg will all be there as well. Among the many ASLA activities at LABASH are a “parklet” in the expo area, a brunch for ASLA student chapter presidents, and the opening ceremony with ASLA President K. Richard Zwiefel, FASLA. We’ll also be around for panels, reviews, and workshops throughout the weekend.
Drop by and say hello and look out for the LAM and ASLA staff at LABASH from March 19 to 21, 2015. Registration is still open, but if you can’t make it, follow LAM @landarchmag and ASLA @landarchitects on Twitter or follow the #LABASH2015 hashtag.
Posted in ENVIRONMENT, MATERIALS, PLANTS, tagged Alternative grass, Kentucky bluegrass, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Landscape architects, lawn alternatives, Mark Simmons, Native grasses, Rutgers Center for Turfgrass Science, turf alternatives on May 20, 2014| 2 Comments »
Unmown “Habiturf” looks soft and slightly tousled. Photo: Mark Simmons, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Clipped-grass turf is the most heavily used material in most American landscapes. The NASA researcher Cristina Milesi used satellite imagery to estimate that lawn occupies some 49,000 square miles of the United States, and it’s increasing by roughly 600 square miles per year, according to a study conducted by Paul Robbins and Trevor Birkenholtz of Ohio State University’s Department of Geography.
Yet, since the 1950s, landscape architects have typically ceded decisions concerning this vast area to turf-industry technicians. Turf became an industrial product after World War II. Which grass to use was dictated by mowers, sprayers, blowers, and spreaders, and choices were limited to a very few varieties of grasses, such as Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) and hybrid Bermuda grasses (Cynodon spp.), that lent themselves to chemical maintenance. Today, though, new alternatives are emerging that landscape architects can use to create healthier and more aesthetically dynamic models for what a domestic grassland can be—a source of environmental renewal rather than an ecological villain. It will also please the increasing numbers of clients who dislike not only the sterile monotony of conventional turf and its high maintenance costs, but also, more critical, the threat that the required maintenance chemicals pose to kids, animals, and communities.
