Landscape Architecture Magazine V.103 N°5 (2013)

LAM

10 Land Matters

12 Letters

Foreground

18 Now
Three winners in a Philadelphia stormwater design competition; a species thought extint turns up in San Francisco; three great landscapes join the National Register; and LAM remembers its longtime editor, Grady Clay, who died in March.
Edited by Adam Regn Arvidson, FASLA

36 Especies
The pushy Norway maple and the recent confusion it caused in Canda; plus, here come the crickets, singing as if life depends on it. (It does)
By Constance Casey

44 Parks
Legends and Wonders
A look around the five new national monuments named by the Obama administration in March
By Lisa Speckhardt

52 Water
The last drops
Perkins+Will renovated a building for its Atlanta offices partly as a demo of how much rainwater a built-out urban site can retain
By Jonathan Lerner

62 Workstation
Field Notes
On an iPad, Adobe Ideas giver you quick ways to sketch out a site and record changes in construction, though it could stand more precision.
By Bruce Sharky, Fasla

66 Goods
The New Backyard
Distinctive outdoor seating, tables, and containers by Fermob, Vitra, and others.
By Lisa Speckhardt

Features

76 With the Flow
In cities, springs often move one way – into a pipe. But Marcel Wilson, ASLA, and Jennifer Carroll Wilson brought a spring out of the ground and into their garden in San Francisco
By Joanne Furio

86 The art of the matter
A sculpture garden by Bluegreen for a house in Aspen, Colorado, became a conceptual work in its own ritght
By Nord Wennerstrom

98 All for the trees
Wait, Pok Kobkongsanti, International ASLA, of TROP talked a developer client into working around what in building a new condo in central Bangkok? Who does that?
By James Grayson Trulove

The Back

116 A trail of Stumps
You could say the ipe, the popular tropical hardwood, is a guilty pleasure. But once you trance the guilt back to the rain forest, the pleasure sort of melts away.
By Jane Hutton

128 Books
The Great Outside
A review of The Garden Club of America: 100 Years of a Growing Legacy, by William Seale.
By Jane Gillette

152 Display ad Index

153 Buyer´s guide index

164 Backstory
Hi, Country!
William Philpott finds that when America climbed the Rockies, the views began to change in more than a few ways
By William Richards

Publicado por Natalia Arocena | 3 de junio de 2013 - 10:23 | Actualizado: 3 de junio de 2013 - 10:23 | PDF