Tar Creek Remade: Taking on 120 years of environmental injustice at an Oklahoma Superfund site
Envision a broad expanse of barren gray mounds riven with erosion channels. Pools of viridian,…
Topic Ecology
2021 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Juan David Grisales’ “From Humboldt to Caldas: Environmental Liberations through Tropical Altitudes”
by Juan David Grisales (MDes / MLA I AP '21) — Recipient of the Design…
2021 Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture: Joanne Li’s “Ovis Versatilis: Icelandic Sheep Farm as Land Art Museum and Evolution Lab”
by Joanne Li (MLA '21) — Recipient of the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture…
2021 Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture: Gracie Villa’s “City | Forest: Reordering Plant-Human Relationships Toward Healthy Cities”
by Gracie Villa (MLA I '21) — Recipient of the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture…
Landscapes of the Void: Speculative design for tunnels, mines, cemeteries and other underground spaces
At once welcoming and foreboding, the underground realm has long captured our attention. When considered…
Highlands’ Harvest
by Alysoun Wright (MUP/ MLA I AP ’21) The Lower Highlands neighborhood of Lowell,…
Can Parkitecture Heal? Jeanne Gang on making American National Parks “more accessible, more inviting, and more welcoming”
Early federal policies that set aside land for the national parks focused mainly on the…
Faculty-led Stoss Landscape Urbanism tapped to develop Boston’s first Urban Forest Plan
Stoss Landscape Urbanism, the design studio founded by Chris Reed,…
Excerpt: The Incidents: Inhabiting the Negative Space by Jenny Odell
Designed by ELLA. Three time zones and three thousand miles…
Silvia Benedito’s new book Atmosphere Anatomies explores weather, climate, and atmosphere as mediums of design
Much of modern civilization has been shaped by a fundamental need for shelter, and much…