Based on a lecture given at CAAPPR on 13 April 2022, as part of the celebration of World Landscape Architecture Month Culture and nature have been portrayed as contradictory or in conflict throughout many expressions of the Western tradition. From … Continue reading
Apuntes para la presentación pública de Patrimonio vol. 8: Ventana al paisaje Arq. Psj. José Juan Terrasa-Soler Esta edición de Patrimonio que presentamos hoy públicamente contribuye a llenar un vacío grande que poco a poco hemos ido llenando en Puerto … Continue reading
The work described herein produced a list of 87 species recommended for use in the design of rain gardens, bioswales, and bioretention cells in the Caribbean Islands. Plant palette selection for green infrastructure projects in the world tropics is an … Continue reading
Landscape can be conceived as a series of continuing planes in space and time. Discontinuities or wrinkles in continuity might be found, but there is always at least one plane in which there is continuity in the landscape. The … Continue reading
The book “Revising Green Infrastructure: Concepts Between Nature and Design” will be published in December 2014 by Routledge/CRC Press, London. It provides a fresh look at green infrastructure from the perspective of landscape architecture. Contributors come from all corners of … Continue reading
To Richard T. T. Forman, with great admiration and respect. Even though during the last 200 years the visual aspects of the design and construction of landscape have predominated, that definitively had not been the case during the rest of … Continue reading
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From the bluff, the landscape was impressive…. The field was textured by the presence of mounds, as in a landfill…. And these tombs of culture marched on to the sea beyond, holding inside them the discarded carcasses of useless things…. … Continue reading
For a landscape architect, field work is as important as drawing and model-making in the studio, and a few good pieces of field gear are a must: Small sketchbook and drawing implements – For field work, I prefer a sketchbook … Continue reading
Presentation (in Spanish) on ecological urban design: La ciudad ecológica / The Ecological City
La Parguera Analysis Designing Nature as Infrastructure – Symposium – Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany Here’s the Symposium poster and program. We will present on a Green Infrastructure Plan for La Parguera, Puerto Rico. Poster Program, Abstracts, Authors
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