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PennDesign Launches New Interdisciplinary Journal
The new landscape architecture publication explicitly takes on the interdisciplinary challenge: each issue will be curated through the lenses of multiple disciplines, plus landscape architecture. The inaugural issue, LA+ WILD, explores the resurgent role of the concept of “wildness”; the call for submissions is now open for the upcoming issue 02: LA+ Pleasure.
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Exhibit: Lebbeus Woods at The Drawing Center
LEBBEUS WOODS, ARCHITECT, on exhibit at The Drawing Center in New York, traces the career of Lebbeus Woods, a visionary architect whose responses to the sites of trauma have given us haunting designs — intricate, beautiful, full of memory, and ultimately optimistic.
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Contemporary Infrastructure: An Interview With Marcel Smets
Marcel Smets talks about the importance of transportation infrastructure in constructing urban value, and the role of designers in fighting for synthesis between multiple urban infrastructural projects.
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Sands Bethworks: Reinventing A Bethlehem Steel Mill
While the US industrial revolution of the 1800s slowly recedes into the depths of national consciousness, the collective memory of rustbelt towns refuse to fade. What's to become of the massive physical remnants of US industrialization?
Scenario Journal
The forest carries deep cultural significance. Within the urban landscape, this ecologically complex system is also understood to perform a wide range of essential ecosystem services, from increasing property values to mitigating climate change. Reforesting cities is one of the defining trends of twenty first century urbanism, but there is little agreement about how our urban forests are to be designed, planned and managed.
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While the US industrial revolution of the 1800s slowly recedes into the depths of national consciousness, the collective memory of rustbelt towns refuse to fade. What’s to become of the massive physical remnants of US industrialization?
Categories: Built, Infrastructure, Post-Industrial, Redevelopment, Remediation
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LEBBEUS WOODS, ARCHITECT, on exhibit at The Drawing Center in New York, traces the career of Lebbeus Woods, a visionary architect whose responses to the sites of trauma have given us haunting designs — intricate, beautiful, full of memory, and ultimately optimistic.
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