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Landscape
04.18.13: Dennis DeHart
ConfluencesOn Places, photographs by Dennis DeHart examine a landscape of contradictions in the Inland Pacific Northwest.
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04.08.13: Phyllis Lambert
Seagram: Union of Building and LandscapeOn Places, Phyllis Lambert explores the evolution of the Seagram Building, focusing on Mies van der Rohe's profound concern for the relationship between building and nature.
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03.28.13: Arturo Soto & Aaron Rothman
Blind ViewsOn Places, a portfolio by Mexican photographer Arturo Soto, focusing on the visual infrastructure of the street, the unremarkable environs of everyday life.
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03.19.13: Mark Feldman
Illuminating the Petrochemical LandscapeOn Places, Mark Feldman reviews collaborative projects that blend photography with environmental activism, including Petrochemical America and Arctic Voices.
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02.04.13: D.J. Waldie
Beautiful and Terrible: Aeriality and the Image of SuburbiaOn Places, D.J. Waldie explores the relationship between aerial photography and the postwar suburban boom, a relationship at once materialistic and transcendent, "beautiful and terrible."
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01.31.13: Kristi Dykema Cheramie & Michael Pasquier
The Lost Graves of the Morganza FloodwayOn Places, Kristi Dykema Cheramie and Michael Pasquier tell the story of a small Louisiana church relocated by Mississippi River engineers so the area could be designated as floodable territory.
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01.17.13: Jill Desimini
Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape ImaginaryOn Places, landscape architect Jill Desimini explores a range of cartographic practices, from a medieval map of the British Isles to contemporary data visualization.
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12.06.12: Michael Light & Aaron Rothman
Above Lake Las VegasOn Places, aerial photographs of the bankrupt luxury communities of Lake Las Vegas, by Michael Light.
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11.19.12: Nicola Waldron
The Land Up NorthOn Places, an essay for Thanksgiving week, by Nicola Waldron, about the cycles of life and land.
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10.25.12: Terry Evans & Alan Thomas
HeartlandOn Places, a portfolio by photographer Terry Evans documents the "disturbed, cultivated, militarized" landscapes of her native American Midwest; with commentary by Alan Thomas.
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09.06.12: Daniel Kariko & Aaron Rothman
Storm SeasonOn Places, a portfolio by photographer Daniel Kariko records the fragile and changing landscapes of the barrier islands of southern Louisiana.
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09.04.12: James Barilla
The Vernacular of DisasterOn Places, in the midst of storm season, James Barilla explores the links between place, weather and disaster, and the increasingly global language of environmental catastrophe.
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08.28.12: Aaron Rothman, David La Spina, Ed Panar & Michael Vahrenwald
Landscape Photography: New Visions, Part 5On Places, the fifth installment in a month-long series, curated by Aaron Rothman, on currents in landscape photography.
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08.21.12: Aaron Rothman, Bryan Graf, Christina Seely, Kirsten Kay Thoen & Letha Wilson
Landscape Photography: New Visions, Part 4On Places, the fourth installment in a month-long series, curated by Aaron Rothman, on currents in landscape photography.
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08.14.12: Aaron Rothman, Bleda y Rosa, Patrick Manning, Richard Mosse & Stephen Tourlentes
Landscape Photography: New Visions, Part 3On Places, the third installment in a month-long series, curated by Aaron Rothman, on currents in landscape photography.
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08.08.12: Aaron Rothman, Matthew Brandt, William Lamson, Chris McCaw & Mieke Woestenburg
Landscape Photography: New Visions, Part 2On Places, the second installment in a month-long series, curated by Aaron Rothman, on currents in landscape photography.
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08.01.12: Aaron Rothman, Marisa Baumgartner, Guillermo Gudiño & Dan Holdsworth
Landscape Photography: New VisionsOn Places, the first installment in a month-long series, curated by Aaron Rothman, on currents in landscape photography.
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07.26.12: Enrique Ramirez
Journey’s End: Wim Wenders in TexasOn Places, Enrique Ramirez explores the making of Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas, and how the strange and atmospheric film captures the elusive essence of Houston.
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07.23.12: William L. Fox
On the Road HomeOn Places, William Fox reviews The Prehistory of Home, by anthropologist Jerry Moore — and explores what it means to be home.
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07.02.12: Martin Hogue
Kampground, AmericaOn Places, a slideshow drawn from a visual survey of all KOA campgrounds in the United States.
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05.10.12: Zhang Xiao & Aaron Rothman
The Last Days of KaixianOn Places, a slideshow by Chinese photographer Zhang Xiao, documenting the last town to be submerged by the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam; with an introduction by Aaron Rothman.
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05.01.12: Michael Ezban
The Trash Heap of HistoryOn Places, Michael Ezban explores the past and present of Monte Testacccio, the great landfill of imperial Rome — and finds a precedent for contemporary landfill reclamation projects.
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03.29.12: Robert Adams & Aaron Rothman
We Are in a Western TownOn Places, Aaron Rothman explores the enduring power of the photographs of Robert Adams, and what they reveal about the paradoxical landscape of the American West.
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03.01.12: Alexandra Lange
How to Be an Architecture CriticSo you want to learn how to talk about buildings? Alexandra Lange suggests starting with “Sometimes We Do It Right,” Ada Louise Huxtable's classic review of the Marine Midland Bank Building in New York.
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01.26.12: Michael Lundgren, Aaron Rothman & Josh Wallaert
If There Be Such SpaceOn Places, a slideshow drawn from a collaborative exhibition by two photographers who share an interest in the perception and representation of natural landscapes.
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01.03.12: Michael P. Branch
The Hills Are AliveOn Places, Michael Branch reflects on how deeply photography and film shape our landscape aesthetics (and how much he detests the Alpine-worshipping The Sound of Music).
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12.15.11: Kathleen Robbins & Mary Carol Miller
Cotton FarmersOn Places, photographer Kathleen Robbins and writer Mary Carol Miller focus on the cotton farms of their native Mississippi — a changing landscape and vanishing livelihood.
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12.12.11: David Heymann
The Evil, Evil Grain ElevatorOn Places, David Heymann continues his exploration of buildings and landscapes — and shows how even a building form as familiar as a grain elevator can come to seem evil.
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12.05.11: David Heymann
A Mound in the WoodOn Places, David Heymann continues his exploration of the charged relationship between architecture and landscape.
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11.28.11: David Heymann
Landscape Is Our SexOn Places, David Heymann analyzes the logics — and illogics — of the idea that the relationship of a building to its landscape is — or should be — a key element of its design..
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11.01.11: Phillip Lopate
Above Grade: On the High LineOn Places, writer Phillip Lopate traces the pre-history of the High Line, and ponders whether New York City's elevated park will be a victim of its own success.
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10.20.11: Jason Griffiths
Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban HousingOn Places, British architect Jason Griffiths offers a close reading of modern American suburbia, where mass production meets the myth of the arcadian frontier.
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09.22.11: Laura Tepper
Road Ecology: Wildlife Habitat and Highway DesignOn Places, Laura Tepper looks at the emerging field of road ecology and its influence on a new generation of highway landscape design.
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09.20.11: Quilian Riano
Landscape Optimism: An Interview with Chris ReedOn Places, Quilian Riano interviews landscape architect Chris Reed, who describes the rise of landscape urbanism from an academic movement in the 1990s to an increasingly influential set of ideas and practices.
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07.14.11: David T. Hanson
Colstrip, MontanaOn Places, a photo essay by David T. Hanson, focusing on the massive coal mine at Colstrip, Montana, and the complicated nexus of energy politics and land use in the American West.
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07.11.11: Mark Klett & Aaron Rothman
Views Across TimeOn Places, an interview with photographer Mark Klett and a slideshow from his ongoing rephotography project, with views across time of the American West.
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07.07.11: David Heymann
The Eastward-Moving HouseOn Places, David Heymann's "The Eastward-Moving House" — a continuation of the imaginative history of American home-building begun in J.B. Jackson's "The Westward-Moving House."
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07.05.11: J.B. Jackson
The Westward-Moving House: Three American Houses and the People Who Lived in ThemOn Places, a republication of J.B. Jackson's classic essay "The Westward-Moving House," which traces the evolution of the American house — the American dream — over three centuries and across the continent.
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06.30.11: Ken McCown
Point of AstonishmentOn Places, architect Ken McCown's photographic record of a New Zealand journey — where the panoramic vistas and unpolluted atmosphere recall what the Western U.S. was like decades ago.
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05.31.11: Martin Hogue
A Short History of the CampsiteOn Places, Martin Hogue traces a history of the campsite, from early 20th-century wilderness camps to today's domesticated campgrounds, where the amenities include day spas and wi-fi.
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05.12.11: Nick Sowers
Soundscapes: AtlantikwallOn Places, selected soundscapes by architect Nick Sowers that record a journey along the Atlantikwall, the line of coastal fortifications built by the Nazis to defend against Allied invasion.
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03.31.11: Anuradha Mathur
Visualizing Landscapes: In the Terrain of WaterOn Places, an exhibition on the visualization of water and landscape, from the Beaux Arts to the digital, curated by Anuradha Mathur.
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03.21.11: Kristi Dykema Cheramie
The Scale of Nature: Modeling the Mississippi RiverOn Places, Kristi Dykema Cheramie explores the ruins of the abandoned Mississippi River Basin Model and ponders the decades-long battle to control the great river.
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02.24.11: Dorothy Tang & Andrew Watkins
Ecologies of Gold: The Past and Future Mining Landscapes of JohannesburgOn Places, Dorothy Tang and Andrew Watkins explore the ecological rehabilitation of the defunct gold mines of central Johannesburg.
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02.10.11: Brian Rosa & Adam Ryder
The Edge of Light: WendoverOn Places, photographs by Brian Rosa and Adam Ryder document the nighttime mysteries of Wendover, where military history, land-speed racing and the casino industry make for unexpected juxtapositions.
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02.07.11: Brian Davis
The New Public Landscapes of Governors Island: An Interview with Adriaan GeuzeOn Places, Brian Davis interviews landscape architect Adriaan Geuze of West 8 about his design for a major new public park on Governors Island in New York Harbor.
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12.28.10: Ken McCown
Full of BeautiesOn Places, photographs by Ken McCown, focusing on fragments of contemporary buildings and public art and on natural landscapes from California to New Zealand to Korea.
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12.23.10: Jesus de Francisco
The Rings of SaturnOn Places, a portfolio of photographs of neglected landscapes, from Los Angeles to Berlin, by art director and photographer Jesus de Francisco.
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12.13.10: David Heymann
Site, AscendantOn Places, the last installment of David Heymann's series on the rising importance of landscape to architecture, seen in works by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Peter Zumthor, OMA, Zaha Hadid, and others.
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12.06.10: David Heymann
Nature-ization Takes CommandOn Places, the second in a series of essays by David Heymann exploring the dynamic relationship of landscape and architecture, evident in works ranging from big civic projects by Norman Foster to small rural houses by Glenn Murcutt.
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11.29.10: David Heymann
A Cloud on a LakeOn Places, architect David Heymann explores the charged relationship between buildings and landscapes in works as diverse as Diller Scofidio + Renfro's notorious Blur Building and Hiroshi Sugimoto's minimalist seascapes.
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11.15.10: Thomas Fisher
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Campaign for Public HealthOn Places, Tom Fisher explores a forgotten chapter in the illustrious career of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted: his brief but exemplary period as head of the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
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11.04.10: Charles Waldheim
Notes Toward a History of Agrarian UrbanismOn Places, Charles Waldheim sketches a history of agriculture in cities, from Frank Lloyd Wright to ecological urbanism.
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11.01.10: Mason White
The Productive SurfaceOn Places, Mason White traces a line from the Cité Industrielle to Buckminster Fuller to contemporary designers exploring the potential for built surfaces to produce agriculture, renewable energy, water harvesting, and more.
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09.09.10: Elizabeth Mossop and Jeffrey Carney
In the Mississippi Delta: Building with WaterOn Places, Elizabeth Mossop and Jeffrey Carney report on the work of the Coastal Sustainability Studio at Louisiana State University, which is proposing long-range solutions to the environmental and social challenges of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
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08.18.10: Martin Hogue
Land, Speed and BonnevilleOn Places — coinciding with Speed Week at Bonneville — a gallery created by architect Martin Hogue documents decades of land speed racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats of western Utah.
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06.29.10: Nicholas Pevzner and Sanjukta Sen
Preparing Ground: An Interview with Anuradha Mathur + Dilip da CunhaOn Places, an interview with landscape architects Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, focusing on projects from the Mississippi to Mumbai.
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06.14.10: Brian Davis, Julienne Schaer
Building Brooklyn Bridge Park: An Interview with Matthew UrbanskiOn Places, landscape designer Brian Davis interviews Matthew Urbanski, principal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, about Brooklyn Bridge Park, a major new public park in New York City.
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04.13.10: Tim Love
Paper Architecture, Emerging UrbanismOn Places, Tim Love explores the latest generation of paper architecture being created by under-employed designers — and argues that the current recession offers a real chance to align progressive theory with urban practice.
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03.15.10: Frank Gohlke
Grain ElevatorsOn Places, a slideshow of photographs from Frank Gohlke's series on grain elevators in the American Midwest and Great Plains.
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03.05.10: Ken McCown
Designed LandscapesA portfolio of photographs of designed structures and landscapes — from La Jolla to Marfa, from Hadrian's Villa to Storm King — by landscape architecture professor Ken McCown.
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03.01.10: Brian Rosa
Frank Gohlke: Thoughts on LandscapeOn Places, Brian Rosa reviews Frank Gohlke's Thoughts on Landscape, a volume of collected writings which shows that this leading American photographer is as eloquent with words as with images.
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03.01.10: Shana Lopes
New (and Old) TopographicsOn Places, New (and Old) Topographics — selected photographs from the Center for Creative Photography that comprise a complementary exhibition to the current restaging of the groundbreaking 1975 show New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.
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02.03.10: Aaron Rothman
This Place is a MessageOn Places, a portfolio of recent photographs of natural and built landscapes by Arizona-based artist and photographer Aaron Rothman.
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01.20.10: Christine Macy
Dams Across AmericaA gallery of images showing the construction of some great U.S. hydroelectric dams of the 1930s and '40s, including Hoover and Grand Coulee — something to contemplate as the current administration struggles to stimulate the economy and smarten the power grid.
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11.22.09: Sergio Lopez-Piñeiro
White SpaceArchitect Sergio Lopez-Pineiro explores the urban design potential of snow, with the goal of creating "white parks" and generating new appreciation for the city in winter.
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10.30.09: Donlyn Lyndon
Lawrence Halprin, 1916 – 2009Lawrence Halprin, one of the leading landscape architects of the postwar era, remembered by his longtime friend and colleague Donlyn Lyndon.
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10.18.09: Ken McCown
Found LandscapesA portfolio of photographs, with images ranging from the American West to Vatican City, by landscape architect Ken McCown.
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09.18.09: Ian Baldwin
The Past Is Promenade: On the High LineArchitect Ian Baldwin contemplates the High Line and sees in New York's newest park a rare and valuable form of urban place: a slow corridor.
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09.12.09: Chris Reed
The Infrastructural CityLos Angeles depends upon vast infrastructural systems that are breathtakingly powerful, yet vulnerable to disruption, even disaster. Landscape architect Chris Reed reviews The Infrastructural City.
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09.08.09: Mark Klett
Placing MemoryPhotographer Mark Klett reviews Placing Memory, which juxtaposes contemporary color photos of abandoned Japanese-American internment camps, by photographer Todd Stewart, with government-commissioned period images, to haunting effect.
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09.04.09: Andrew Blum
Metaphor Remediation: A New Ecology for the CityCities are the new frontiers green living, and Andrew Blum argues that we need to revise the old metaphors: will Half Dome give way to the high-rise as the new emblem of environmentalism?
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08.05.09: Nina-Marie Lister
Water/FrontEcological planner Nina-Marie Lister explores innovative ways to regenerate urban waterfronts.
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01.15.05: Daniel S. Friedman
Campus Design as Critical PracticeHow to turn a lackluster midwestern campus into an international cultural destination.
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07.01.00: Elizabeth Felicella
Portfolio: Uneasy SpacesNew York City photographer Elizabeth Felicella focuses on what she calls "landscape of security."
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07.15.95: Thomas J. Campanella
Splendid ChinaA tour of Splendid China, the "world's largest miniature scenic spot.
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07.15.83: Kathy Halbreich, William Porter and Lois Craig
An Interview with James TurrellA 1983 interview with James Turrell, then beginning his transformation of the Roden Crater. The monumental work is scheduled to open to the public in 2012.
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