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DHARAVI, MUMBAI – “SHANTARAM” – SLUM FOR SALE
Those of you who have been to India, have read Gregory David Robert’s best selling  ” partially autobiographical” novel Shantaram, which it has has recently been  announced will be turned into a movie,...
LANDSCAPE OF PROFESSIONALISM
LANDSCAPE OF PROFESSIONALISM
From Winnipeg Free PressBy: Brent Bellamy There is nothing more frustrating than flying into a new city while sitting in the middle seat of an airplane. You stretch to see over the person beside you who’s...
KANTAMANTO MARKET ACCRA
KANTAMANTO MARKET ACCRA
Where “stuff” goes and how it moves once “we” have finished with it – fashion slaves have uses too. I don’t quite understand if this market has been forced to move by the railways expansion or has closed...
MATERIALS REVOLUTION
NERI OXMAN’S MATERIALS REVOLUTION
At the 2011 GreenBuild, Neri Oxman, director of Mediated Matter at MIT Media Lab and one of the few who made Fast Company’s top 100 creative people list, wants to “introduce a new dimension or sensibility”...
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘LANDSCAPE INFRASTRUCTURE: CASE STUDIES BY SWA
‘Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA‘ published in 2011, is edited by the Infrastructure Research Initiative of SWA including Los Angeles office principals Gerdo Aquino and Ying-Yu...
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DREDGE DESIGN
  To dredge simply means to scoop up sediment, often underwater, and move it to another location. While this process is often associated with moving contaminated soils to a place where they can be...
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THE ENDURING APPEAL OF OEHME, VAN SWEDEN’S “NEW AMERICAN GARDEN”
Wolfgang Oehme and James van Sweden / Photograph © Volkmar Wentzel, ca. 1990, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation   The default American landscape before game-changing landscape architecture...
Game/Landscape
Game/Landscape
I’ve mentioned a few times on Twitter, I have had an on-going interest in game design as a medium, but also in relation to the potential synergistic overlaps between the technology/techniques with landscape...
SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION
PETER ZUMTHOR’S SERPENTINE GALLERY PAVILION 2011
Making the news this week is the opening of Peter Zumthors Serpentine gallery – isn’t it just too boring for words – all this Swiss minimalism – it has some sensual appeal but don’t you  think these statements...
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DESIGN AND THE FUTURE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
If landscape architects want to remake the world, we can start by remaking our discipline.   A thought provoking critique of the role Landscape Architects actually play in society versus what they...