What landscape architects need to know. The honor for Grupo de Diseño Urbano reflects founder Mario Schjetnan’s focus on ...

What landscape architects need to know. The last link in a Texas trail connects flood control with habitat and cultural history. By Jennifer Reut It’s a real moment for the design team when a project ...

In 1999, 20 years after establishing the design practice Grupo de Diseño Urbano in Mexico City, Mario Schjetnan, FASLA, then 55, accepted a job as the director of the University of Arizona’s landscape ...

In 2014, six years after the Great Recession showed up at LandDesign’s doorsteps, Rhett Crocker, ASLA, was looking to lead the firm out of survival mode. Crocker had just become the firm’s fifth ...

Stephen Stimson, FASLA, and Lauren Stimson, ASLA, built a new house and utility building on property Steve’s family has long farmed. Photo by Ngoc Doan. Outside the kitchen door of the Massachusetts ...

The permafrost is melting in Inuvik, a flat delta town in the Northwest Territories, 2 degrees north of the Arctic Circle. You can see the drunken trees, leaning this way and that along the banks of ...

Unlike architecture, landscape architecture evolves (and almost always improves) through time. Its parks and gardens are never complete. Or rather the finished landscape of today is not the finished ...

Gerstacker Grove is the only major piece of landscape connective tissue on the University of Michigan’s North Campus. Photo by Millicent Harvey. “With a lot of these moves, we’re trying to play off or ...

White characters in What Are We Going to Do, Michael? (1973) tell the story of African American activist Hattie Carthan’s fight to save a southern magnolia tree. In the 1973 children’s story What Are ...

In the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, at a community garden baking in the March sun, some herbs struggle up out of cinder block planters, and irrigation lines snake through the beds, which are ...

A zigzagging network of wide paved paths brings pedestrians and cyclists down to the lake. Photo by Jin He-Candido, ASLA. “Everything in Lakeshore East is built up, not down,” says Linda Kozloski, the ...