One year ago, I published my predictions for 2020 landscape architecture trends with little understanding of how 2020 would be quite different from what we were expecting. With COVID shutting down many cities and design firms working from home, it forever changed the landscape architecture profession. It accelerated the adoption…

The 2020 WLA Awards received over 230 entries from across the world including the USA, China, Australia, Singapore, Belgium, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Netherlands and many more. The jury found that it is encouraging that the entries in the 2020 WLA Awards dealt with challenges that the profession is facing across a large range of scales and provided solutions that are relevant, adaptive and resilient.

There are many things that pre-COVID-19 that we took as “normal” such as going into the office every day, travelling on public transport, eating lunch out and shopping late. Many city streets have been empty for several weeks with governments planning for opening up the current restrictions to allow people…

Overgrown by Julian Raxworthy calls on landscape architects to embrace gardening and connecting with the site and working plants in the landscape. He encourages landscape architects to develop a new type of design practice by leaving their offices including the visualisations and plans to acknowledge and learn from the growing landscape. Throughout reading the book you often feel like you are wandering down a meandering garden path with Raxworthy using case studies and insights into the works of landscape architects including Burle Marx, Kiley, Sven-Ingvar Andersson, McHarg, Dutton as he explores this notion of this new type of practice which he calls “the viridic”.

Perubahan iklim semakin menjadi masalah terbesar yang dihadapi dunia dengan laporan demi laporan membunyikan bel alarm tapi tidak didengarkan oleh banyak pemerintah federal yang ingin mempertahankan pertumbuhan ekonomi jangka pendek dibandingkan berinvestasi jangka panjang. …

气候变化越来越成为世界面临的最大问题，接踵而来的报告发出了警钟。 但是这些警告似乎被许多国家置若罔闻，他们的政府寻求维持短期经济增长而不是长期投资。 现在,应当由地方政府，非盈利组织,公司，机构，智囊团和意见领袖小组来推动议程向前发展, 从区域等级到当地社区和团体。 最近的预测 2018年末出版的政府间气候变化专门委员会 (IPCC）报告，是近期最令人震惊的报道之一，预测在2030年之前我们能够将温度上升限制在1.5摄氏度以内的时间真的已经不多了。 上个ASLA 会议中，一个讨论小组，包括了加拿大景观设计师协会(CSLA)主席Collen Mercer Clarke，IFLA气候变化工作组主席Vaughn Rinner，以及FASLA，著名设计师Martha Schwartz和Pamela Conrad，他们强调了近期的分析的重要性，比如在Paul Hawken的“Drawdown”一书中显示了减少气候变化影响的指标。这些可以用作帮助我们改变生活、工作和设计方式的工具。 该小组还呼吁景观建筑组织创建类似于 2030年建筑挑战的2030年景观挑战。 我希望世界各地的景观建筑组织共同创造2030年景观挑战，尤其是发展中国家。

Climate change is increasingly the largest issue facing the world with report after report raising the alarm bells. But these warnings appear to be falling on deaf ears of many nations and states, with governments who seek to maintain short term economic growth rather than invest in the long term…

This question is asked by many students trying to decide which school they should attend. However, there is no list or ranking that will provide everyone with the answer. There is not one school or even type of school that is the best, the answer should be personally tailored to…

Over the last year there have been several terrorist incidents that have seen the loss of life in our cities and due to this acts we have seen governments have turned to security experts, police departments and intelligence experts to offer advice on how to make cities safer. …