Walter Cudnohufsky, principle and founder of the Conway School of Sustainable Landscape Design and Planning had a bunch of well loved quips to keep designers on track like, “There is always a better design.” With this ammo I repeatedly, sometimes joyfully return to battle with my inner perfectionist and other critics knowing improvement is...
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Harold Kaiser, UH Extension Service director for University of Hawaii Maui, said in a recent Master Gardener program presentation that the fastest growing segment of agricultural producer in the Hawaiian Islands today live on two acres and are trying their hand at diversified crop production. Few of us can rely on childhood food-growing experiences....
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Accommodate movement in design proposals. Site analysis reflects current use patterns while anticipating site and user functions. Experience shows lines on the ground, paths through the air, channels where water moves. Map flow and stillness—inform choices to enhance, redirect and capitalize on existing movement. Chart client ambition, intention, awareness and site conditions. Read the...
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Teaser quote:Harold Kaiser, UH Extension Service director for University of Hawaii Maui, said in a recent Master Gardener program presentation that the fastest growing segment of agricultural producer in the Hawaiian Islands today live on two acres and are trying a hand at diversified agricultural crop production. Read the full post
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Teaser Quote:“The transitway is planned as a means by which to structure or restructure the region and new types of residential communities and urban activity cores” (Simonds, JS and Starke, BW. Landscape Architecture. McGraw-Hill. p242). Read the full post
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TeaserWhere does the abstract designer, the horticulturalist or landscaper or farmer divorced from site analysis begin? Read the full post
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Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan describe ecological design as that which “minimizes environmentally destructive impacts by integrating itself with living processes (Van der Ryn S, Cowan S. Ecological Design. Island Press. 1996. p18). A tall order. So what is the big idea and how do mere mortals live without treating the world...
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John Simonds wrote, “It is believed that the lifetime goal and work of the landscape architect (architect of the landscape) is to help bring people, their structures, activities, their communities, their cities—and thus their lives—into harmonious relationship with the living earth—with the “want to be” of the land” (Simonds, JS and Starke, BW. Landscape...
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Teaser Quote:Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan describe ecological design as that which “minimizes environmentally destructive impacts by integrating itself with living processes (Van der Ryn S, Cowan S. Ecological Design. Island Press. 1996. p18). Read the full post
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Teaser Quote:“The transitway is planned as a means by which to structure or restructure the region and new types of residential communities and urban activity cores” (Simonds, JS and Starke, BW. Landscape Architecture. McGraw-Hill. p242). Read the full post
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