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

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 ...

Landscape architects are working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and building new networks through the Engineering With Nature program. The implications could be transformative for both. Monica ...

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 ...

Gulf State Park in Alabama is one of the largest public projects to be funded through the Deepwater Horizon settlement. Many more are coming. The Lodge at Gulf State Park was rebuilt as a sustainable ...

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 ...

Claude Cormier, ASLA, designed bridges, which double as romantic viewing platforms, over the entrances to a pair of underground parking decks. Photo by Jean-François Savaria. When Claude Cormier, ASLA ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...