Coastal resilience
A reading list prior to a Landscape Architecture studio that takes place in the coast of Ecuador following the 2016 earthquake.
Backwater: Landscapes of the Mississippi Delta
Places Journal
Resuscitating the Mississippi Delta with river diversions and sediment siphons would be the world’s largest coastal restoration project. But it could happen.
Watermark: Along the California Aqueduct
Places Journal
The extraordinary achievement of modern California — the transformation of a semi-arid region into an abundant and prosperous place — has produced a wicked tangle of problems.
Emergent Shorelands of the Great Lakes
Places Journal
Dramatic fluctuations at the water’s edge create zones of opportunity for landscape designers and planners.
Landscape Forensics
Places Journal
A landscape photographer examines material traces of invisible phenomena like climate change and politically disputed land claims.
Ecology and Design: Parallel Genealogies
Places Journal
The word “ecology” has been co-opted so widely that it has lost real meaning, yet it remains a powerful lens for designers working with complex adaptive systems.
Speculative Archaeology
Places Journal
Faux-ethnographic dioramas, modern interiors reimagined as psychedelic ruin-worlds, invented histories of proto-architecture: archaeology, as model or metaphor, has been surfacing a lot in art practice and design theory.
Levees That Might Have Been
Places Journal
A history of forgotten inventions that would have produced a very different landscape along American rivers.