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While we need designers and why design is a city and a brands most valuable asset,  the idea that it is the designer or architect’s role to originate “brilliant” designs from scratch is a paradigm that’s...

William Muriuki and his wife Ruth on their vegetable farm near Meru, central Kenya. AlertNet/Isaiah Esipisu By Isaiah Esipisu MERU, Kenya (AlertNet) – William Muriuki and his wife are inspecting their...

A recent post on [polis] led me to reread Rem Koolhaas’ seminal text and a critique of it in QRLS, which reminded me how when we first visited Singapore in 1986 I noticed how compliant and alienated the...

Having been involved over the last 10 days in a green industry and City of Cape Town consultation on “Alternatives for watering of gardens and landscapes” as a response to the water crisis in Cape Town...

 press release from the Institute of Landscape architects of South Africa (ILASA) of a unique and important  two volume series on the Landscape Architecture of Southern Africa which sets out to fill a...

By tackling some of the most daunting problems of the city, landscape architects are rising to new prominence. PARTICIPANTS: Jill Desimini is an assistant professor in landscape architecture at the Harvard...

Founded by Donovan Gillman in 2011, Urban Choreography is a unique planning, design, and public space management firm whose focus is urban, residential, commercial and leisure developments in Southern...

Interesting alternatives living and working typologies for co-living examined with background on a possible history via Co-living 2030: Are you ready for the sharing economy? | Features | Archinect Illustration...

Guilio Foscari’s book Element of Venice, while modelled on a process described a being similar to that of Rem Koolhaas’ at the Venice  Biennial , appears to me to be, in the vein of Bruno Labours Actor...

AECOM won the International Competition for the Urban Master Plan of the Rio 2016 Olympic Park in August . Coordinated by the Municipal Olympic Company, the competition was held in partnership with the...