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Explore - Landscape Design
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Pod Space Prefab Garden Sheds
Two years ago, Ben Lord surveyed the garden sheds on the market in his native England and didn’t like what he saw. Cookie-cutter designs and drab interiors dominated even as habits were...
written by: William Lamb09.16.09 -
Houses of the Holy
For men of the cloth, architecture has always been one earthly delight they've been encouraged to indulge. In Arizona, DeBartolo Architects continues the tradition in a rather unorthodox manner.
written by: David Proffittphotos by: Bill Timmerman09.11.09 -
Unauthorized Moss Art
From Banksy to Katsu to Iz the Wiz, we often hear about guerilla graffiti artists who've taken their social critiques to the streets with powerful images and strong words. Along a quieter...
written by: Tiffany Chu08.10.09 -
Author Q&A: The BLDGBLOG Book
Many of you had the pleasure of reading Geoff Manaugh's work while he was a Senior Editor here at Dwell, but if you've not yet checked out the blog he's been writing for the last five years or so,...
07.28.09 -
New Trio from Stout Publishers
One of the joys of coming in to Dwell every morning is passing by William Stout Architectural Books, maybe the best design bookstore I've seen. In addition to shelves and shelves of books on...
written by: Aaron Britt07.15.09 -
Pavilion Ponderings, Thanks to SANAA
On Sunday, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA revealed their Serpentine Pavilion. A three-month guest to the Kensington Gardens, this year's pavilion is the ninth commissioned by the...
written by: Tiffany Chu07.14.09 -
MOS Throws an "Afterparty"
The winner of the 2009 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program has opened in the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center courtyard in Long Island City. The winning entry, afterparty by MOS, is a provocative...
written by: Tiffany Chu07.09.09 -
Exhibition Snapshot: Dwell Outdoor
From modern prefab sheds to luxury tent lodges, organic planters to living walls, Dwell Outdoor is one of the most anticipated exhibitions at this year's Dwell on Design.
written by: Tiffany Chu06.27.09 -
Where the Sidewalk Ends
After taking on San Francisco City Hall, architect Jane Martin helped spawn a movement that has rendered the city’s sidewalks more hospitable to birds, bees, butterflies—and even to...
written by: Deborah Bishop06.22.09 -
Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian's Kogod Courtyard, built in 2007 as a modern complement to the nineteenth-century museum's Greek Revival–style architecture, is an oasis in downtown Washington, DC.
written by: Rachael Grad06.13.09 -
A Clearing in the Streets
Frederick Law Olmsted brought nature to New York in his carefully controlled design of Central Park. In that green oasis amid the city’s dense buildings, nature comes to urbanites in...
written by: Drew Himmelstein06.04.09 -
Kathryn Gustafson on the Future of Landscape Design
As housing demographics shift, so too does our conception of the average American residential landscape.
05.26.09 -
Missing the Mark
Landscape design is a matter of personal taste, but there are some approaches that almost any designer would recommend against.
written by: Amber Bravo05.26.09 -
Well Pruned
There is such a variety of well-executed residential landscape designs, it is difficult (and arbitrary) to cite one as being superlative. However, each of the following projects deals well with a...
written by: Amber Bravo05.26.09 -
Judy Kameon on the Future of Landscape Design
There’s a common misconception that the scale of domestic projects places them in the realm of “garden designers” rather than landscape architects, but size is not always the...
05.26.09 -
An Introduction to Landscape Design
The profession of landscape architecture is very much rooted in the European tradition of garden design, and it didn’t germinate as a distinct profession in the United States until the 19th...
written by: Amber Bravo05.26.09 -
Diana Balmori on the Future of Landscape Architecutre
Planting a vegetable garden, however, shouldn’t be the end of our transformation of the domestic landscape, as Diana Balmori explains.
05.26.09 -
101 Landscape
Garden design is only a fraction of the landscaping tradition. Residential or commercial it's a balance fo aesthetics and function that makes for sucess, and we take a look into (and upon) the field.
written by: Amber Bravo05.26.09 -
Apples from Asphalt
Mobile City Farmstead is bringing a little bit of the heartland into the big city, one vacant lot at a time.
05.04.09 -
Park(ing) Day Website
ReBar is a San Francisco based architectural activists who create work "situated in the domains of environmental installation, urbanism and absurdity." They're perhaps best known as the...
05.01.09
