What landscape architects need to know. Bradford McKee’s reporting on Andropogon’s efforts to revive the urban forest is a winner of the 2025 Bradford Williams Medal. By Joe Adler While the core of ...

What landscape architects need to know. Gravel paths, wildflowers, and landform barriers in Watts provide much-needed green ...

What landscape architects need to know. The winner will be honored as part of the 13th Barcelona International Landscape ...

“This is one of the rarest trees in the United States,” says Andrew Wyatt of the Missouri Botanical Garden, pointing to one of two Virginia round-leaf birch trees planted outside the garden’s new Jack ...

In 1966, the Hayden Library opened at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe. Byron Sampson, ASLA, the university landscape architect, says that with its massive—perhaps even intimidating—presence, ...

What is the agency of the urban designer? How do we not just make landscapes, buildings, and public space, but make change?” These provocative questions, set out by Kate Orff, FASLA, and SCAPE in ...

Some of the most engaging new playgrounds take their inspiration from nature but are also fantastical worlds of their own. One tiny playground at Presidio Knolls, a Mandarin immersion school in San ...

When Martin Smith began designing a municipal park in Bentonville, Arkansas, in 2017, he consulted a map from 1840. By overlaying modern development on the old map, his team at Ecological Design Group ...

In this nighttime rendering of the Línudans lava bridge concept, the flow glows orange as it crosses over the protected road below. Image by Magnús Rafnsson/Línudans. Kristín Jóhannsdóttir woke at two ...

As designers and as academics, we have developed a working relationship with rejection and failure. We believe this deserves more discussion. Our archive research began with general curiosity: What ...

The interim landscape recalled both Harrelson Hall and the Piedmont’s ecology. Courtesy Kimley-Horn. Bricks are so ubiquitous on the campus of North Carolina State University (NC State) that it is a ...