landscape urbanism (dot) com

I was recently delighted to be asked to contribute to a brand new website and online publication: landscapeurbanism.com. Founder and editor-in-chief Sarah Kathleen Peck is the driving force behind the initiative and it was a fantastic experience to work with her and her team on an article for the inaugural issue themed around ideas of “Indeterminacy [...]
Turning the field: Contradictions in Landscape Urbanism
First published in Kerb 15. The theoretical genetic code that makes up the DNA of landscape urbanism is spliced from a diverse and eclectic range of disciplines. The selection, mix and concentration of these theoretical components by landscape architects, architects and other professions has resulted in discrete interpretations of landscape urbanism that are often contradictory [...]
Folding landscapes – defining a new language of surface?
[Published as "Folding the land" in Landscape – the Journal of the Landscape Institute, Issue 6, June 2004.] “To produce a relationship between different disciplines, it is necessary to place oneself on the [external] limits of one’s own discipline”. Enric Miralles. Enrique Cerda and Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics [...]