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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTouchscreen 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...
View Article“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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTo 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...
View ArticleTerrain 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...
View ArticleMany 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTerrestrial 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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