THE LANDSCAPE PROJECT
EDITED BY: RICHARD J. WELLER & TATUM HANDS
“The best design is always, to some degree, anti-design but this is also not to be confused with abandoning design. Design is a promethean gift and responsibility.”
The foresight of design, without a naïve belief in technofixes, is all we have. In addition to language, it’s all humans have ever really had. The redesign of modern objects, systems, and settlements—the relics of a fossil-fueled world—will happen, but it will not be easy and it will not be fast. And although in that time there will be horrendous loss, there is reason for optimism in a climate-changed world. As the world urbanizes and global population declines, and as the energy transition to renewables simultaneously builds, the anthropogenic pressure on the earth system will lessen. Add to this the possibility that through the climate crisis humanity will not just be reminded of its hubris, but it will be profoundly humbled, then the physical and metaphysical prerequisites for us to enter into a more symbiotic and less parasitic relationship with the earth will be established. In the interim, design has to work at absorbing the shock, creating refugia, limiting the suffering, and, wherever possible, bringing joy in being mortally of the earth. Every landscape project, no matter how small, is a part of this “bigger picture.”
Contributors include Richard Weller, Sean Burkholder, Sarah Willig, Frederick Steiner, Sonja Dümpelmann, Ellen Neises, Matthijs Bouw, Nicholas Pevzner, Christopher Marcinkoski, David Gouverneur, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Karen M’Closkey, Keith VanDerSys, Valerio Morabito, Lucinda Sanders, Rebecca Popowsky, Sarai Williams, Billy Fleming, James Billingsley, and Tatum Hands.
“In its purest sense, etched into the surface of the earth, the landscape project of designing the ground is an art of orientation.”
Selected Works
Drawing CodesEXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION
FLUXArchitecture in a Parametric Landscape
FLUX - Ila + AndrewArchitecture in a Parametric Landscape
New Investigations in Collective FormNeeraj Bhatia
Tatiana Bilbao EstudioBenjamin Wilke
Autonomous UrbanismEvan Shieh
WAY BEYOND BIGNESSProject type
Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational DesignDaniel Cardoso Llach and Theodora Vardouli
Living + Dying INbetweenPeter Zweig
Silt Sand SlurryRob Holmes, Brett Milligan, and Gena Wirth
G. E. KIDDER SMITH BUILDSProject type
NUCLEAR CHRONICLESDESIGN RESEARCH ON THE LANDSCAPES OF THE US NUCLEAR HIGHWAY
Environmental Activism by DesignColeman Coker, Sarah Gamble, Katie Swenson , and Thomas Fisher
Designing for EmpathyAybars Aşçı
Designing for Empathy - Aybars AşçıAybars Aşçı
Johnston MarkleeBenjamin Wilke
Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of ArchitectureCarl Lostritto
New Investigations in Collective FormNeeraj Bhatia + The Open Workshop
Source Books in Architecture 16Tatiana Bilbao
Environmental Activism by DesignColeman Coker + Sarah Gamble
Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational DesignDaniel Cardoso Llach + Theodora Vardouli
CITIES OF REPETITIONHONG KONG’S PRIVATE HOUSING ESTATES
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