ART DIRECTOR’S CUT, APRIL 15
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. Photo by Tim Griffith. From “The Best Medicine” by Lydia Lee in the April 2021 issue, about GLS Landscape |...
View ArticleART DIRECTOR’S CUT, JANUARY 19
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. Photo by Joanna Pertz. From “A Resilient Renewal” in the January 2021 issue by Alex Ulam, about how Joanna...
View ArticleART DIRECTOR’S CUT, OCTOBER 6
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. Photo by Robin Hill. From “An Emerald Necklace at 70 Feet” in the October 2020 issue by Timothy A. Schuler,...
View ArticleMADE TO DISAPPEAR
BY TIMOTHY A. SCHULER / PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEVIN SCOTT In dry western Washington, a fruit company compound by Berger Partnership all but vanishes in a shroud of native plantings. FROM THE AUGUST 2018 ISSUE...
View ArticleLOTS OF OPPORTUNITY
BY LISA OWENS VIANI In Great Lakes cities, derelict parcels sponge up stormwater. FROM THE AUGUST 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE. Eight years ago, Sandra Albro, a research associate in...
View ArticleMAY LAM: LINEAR JOURNEYS
Click to view slideshow. It’s the first, which means May’s issue of LAM is here! You’ll find these stories inside: FOREGROUND Where Least Matters Most (Interview) Coco Alarcón is using landscape...
View ArticleSOFT POWER IN MOSCOW
BY STEPHEN ZACKS An expansive park at the foot of the Kremlin helped drive a series of revolutionary improvements to the Russian capital. FROM THE APRIL 2018 ISSUE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE....
View ArticleART DIRECTOR’S CUT, OCTOBER 19
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. Image courtesy of Stephen Stimson Associates. From “Remnant to Whole” in the October 2017 issue, about the...
View ArticleART DIRECTOR’S CUT, SEPTEMBER 14
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. Photo courtesy of Lisa Daye. From LAM’s special September 2017 awards issue, Facebook’s green roof in its Menlo...
View ArticleLAMCAST: ASLA’S NEW HOME SNAPS INTO FOCUS
Filmed over 18 months by Jim Richards Productions of Reston, Virginia, this time-lapse look into the construction of ASLA’s new home begins with a few swings of the sledgehammer by ASLA executive...
View ArticleTHE OBAMA CENTER: NEW VIEWS FOR WHOM?
BY ZACH MORTICE The most important question related to the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side doesn’t have that much to do with its architecture. It is instead: What kind of landscape...
View ArticleNEW AT HQ: THE HQ IS NEW!
BY BRADFORD MCKEE The storefront gallery. Image courtesy of LAM. First, our thanks to the many members and supporters of ASLA who gave their pledges, time, and enthusiasm to help build a new home for...
View ArticleDRIVING CONCERN
BY ALEX ULAM The new Mosholu golf driving range is part of a controversial water filtration plant project built at the edge of the bucolic Van Cortlandt Park. From the July 2016 issue of Landscape...
View ArticleTHE BIG SPRIG
BY MARK HOUGH, FASLA Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway has finally gotten what it always needed—time. From the July 2016 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Call it the Emptyway. That was the...
View ArticleTHE WILD GRID
BY GARY HILDERBRAND, FASLA Dan Kiley’s South Garden at the Art Institute of Chicago has seasoned over nearly 50 years into a rugged, magical hawthorn canopy. From the October 2015 issue of Landscape...
View ArticleART DIRECTOR’S CUT, AUGUST 20
The things our art director, Chris McGee, hated to leave out of the current issue of LAM. There are 12 acres of green roofs and 13 acres of wet native gardens incorporated into the design of the U.S....
View ArticleGREEN ROOF GOLD
BY LAUREN MANDEL, ASLA Molly Meyer is capitalizing on a surge in demand. From the July 2015 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Molly Meyer, a Stanford University-trained biogeochemist and the...
View ArticleAUGUST’S LAM: SUPER SOAK
Click to view slideshow. In August’s issue of LAM, Philip Walsh finds that landscape architects could work harder than they do to restore lost wetlands in the United States. Steven Litt, in Cleveland,...
View ArticleTHE GLOBAL CUCUMBER
BY TIM WATERMAN The Milan Expo 2015 raises unsought emotions about food, cities, the world. From the July 2015 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. A city like Milan reflects the strivings of...
View ArticleSPEAKING OF FREEDOM: LAM’S ON US
Click to view slideshow. July’s LAM looks at the long-needed rehabilitation of Babi Yar Park, a memorial ground in Denver dedicated to the lives lost in Kiev, Ukraine, during the Holocaust, by Tina...
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