Kongjian Yu (ä¿žå”åš) gave a keynote at the IFLA 2011 Congress in Zurich which give a brief history of his career and then moves on to his ideas about Big Foot Landscape/Urbanism. Kongjian Yu has been key in changing the attitude in China from traditional landscape gardening or landscape as floral art and creating a […]
WLA #02 – Landscape Architecture Magazine – combining my two passions
I have recently set about publishing a quarterly landscape architecture magazine called WLA, after my website World Landscape Architecture. It is an interesting process with many hours of emailing, downloading, cross checking, proof reading, sending proofs and overall administration to publish a magazine whilst working full-time in Shanghai. Essentially I love creating the magazine as […]
Where They Create – Paul Barbera | website & now a book
Paul Berbara is from my hometown – Melbourne Australia and has been travelling as a photographer for many years across the world. Along the way he has documented the offices, studios, workshops and creative spaces of many architects, designers, artists, fashion designers and other creative people. The photos became wheretheycreate.com and then a Where They […]
Stop going to your professional annual conference – go to someone else’s
Year after year I hear people go to the same conference. Why? Different city, different speakers? Isn’t it time your thought a little outside your profession and went to something a little or completely different. Seeing the same people year after year hearing the same ideas about what the profession should be doing or a […]
Co-ordination is key to a great project
Landscape architects can create a great project and less problems for the client and contractor by coordinating with other design professionals and ensuring that there is constant communication between all design consultants,. ARCHITECTS Co-ordinating with the architects ensures the interface between the building and the landscape is complementary. Nothing is worse that exposed structure or […]