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Landscape Is Our Sex
Places Journal
Should the relationship of a building to its landscape be a key element of its design? Unpacking the logics and illogics of this powerful cultural presumption.
From Architecture to Landscape
Places Journal
Landscape architects have begun to venture from the confines of garden, park, and plaza into more adventurous practice. Now the field needs a new name: landscape science.
Landscape Optimism
Places Journal
The founder of Stoss discusses the rise of landscape urbanism from an academic movement to an influential set of ideas and practices.
Adventure Playground: The Transformation of New York
Places Journal
Beginning in the late 1960s, New York City was transformed under Mayor John Lindsay from a workaday zone to a scenic setting for urban play, an “adventure playground.”
Founding Mother
Places Journal
The late 19th-century writings of Mariana Van Rensselaer, one of the pioneers of architecture criticism in America, are still relevant today.
Metaphor Remediation
Places Journal
As cities become the new frontiers of green living, let’s revise the old metaphors. Will the high-rise replace Half Dome as the new emblem of environmentalism?
The Hills Are Alive
Places Journal
How do you solve a problem like Maria? An environmental writer reflects on how stylized, color-corrected representations of nature shape our landscape aesthetics.
Into the Uncanny Valley
Places Journal
It is disconcerting when we can’t quite sort out the relationship of an image to the world.
Unbuilding Gender
Places Journal
What might the abstract and architectural offer in terms of transgender representation? We can start by looking at the art of Gordon Matta-Clark.
A City Is Not a Computer
Places Journal
This seems an obvious truth, but we need to say it loud and clear. Urban intelligence is more than information processing.
Hagia Sophia Past and Future
Places Journal
The reconversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque is hardly a radical act. Given its complex history, the extraordinary edifice has the potential to support multiple religious practices.
A Mound in the Wood
Places Journal
Reconsidering Adolf Loos’s proposition: “Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument.”
The Middle of Everywhere
Places Journal
In the Flint Hills of Kansas there are cattle ranches and art galleries, old barns and new architecture, ghost towns and growing cities. And there is the last stand of tallgrass prairie in America.
The "Indianized" Landscape of Massachusetts
Places Journal
The inclusion of Native American names and sites in civic geography near Boston has obscured the violence of dispossession.
Frederick Law Olmsted’s Campaign for Public Health
Places Journal
A forgotten but vital chapter in the career of America’s most illustrious landscape architect: Olmsted’s brief stint as head of the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War.
Hollywood Architects
Places Journal
Hollywood’s onscreen professional worlds are populated largely by white men, and one of the whitest and most masculine of these worlds is architecture.
Accelerated and Decelerated Landscapes
Places Journal
People who study, design, or care for landscapes need to become experts at the techniques, knowledges, and ethics of bending time.