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Landscape Futures Arrives

[Image: Internal title page from Landscape Futures; book design by Everything-Type-Company]. At long last, after a delay from the printer, Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural...

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The Comet as Landscape Art

[Image: Photo courtesy ESA]. Intrigued by these images as an example of how the tradition of landscape representation has rapidly progressed—from the Romantics and the Hudson River School to Rosetta—I...

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Touchscreen Landscapes

[Image: Screen grab via military.com]. This new, partly digital sand table interface developed for military planning would seem to have some pretty awesome uses in an architecture or landscape design...

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“We don’t have an algorithm for this”

[Image: Comet 67P, via ESA]. In the story of how European Space Agency researchers are scrambling to locate—and possibly move—the Philae probe, which they successfully landed on Comet 67P two days ago,...

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The Drowned World

[Image: From Terra Forming: Engineering the Sublime by Adam Lowe and Jerry Brotton]. Artists Adam Lowe and Jerry Brotton’s project Terra Forming: Engineering the Sublime simultaneously explores the...

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To roam hither and thither rather than plod a linear course

The blog Landscapism takes a look at the “integral but largely uncharted topography” of the combe, the “amphitheatre-like landform that can be found at the head of a valley.” There, the post’s author...

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Terrain Jam

[Image: “arid wilderness areas” from @witheringsystem]. I’ve long been a fan of generative landscapes—topographies created according to some sort of underlying algorithmic code—and I’m thus always...

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Many Norths

[Image: Many Norths: Building in a Shifting Territory]. Architects Lola Sheppard and Mason White of Lateral Office have a new book out, Many Norths: Building in a Shifting Territory, published by...

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The Remnants

[Image: From An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural Parklands by Robert Burley]. Photographer Robert Burley has a new book due out in two weeks called An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural...

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Terrestrial Warfare, Drowned Lands

While looking at maps of rural New York State, roughly 70 miles northwest of Manhattan, near the border with New Jersey, I noticed a series of small communities called “Islands.” Pine Island, Maple...

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