1st Edition
Innovations in Landscape Architecture
Foreword (Brad Cantrell), Introduction: The Only Thing We Have to Fear (Daniel H. Ortega and Jonathon R. Anderson), Part I: Tools, 1. L A N D script _ data S C A P E: ‘Digital’ Agency within Manufactured Territories (Jose Alfredo Ramirez and Clara Oloriz Sanjuan), 2. An Interface for Instrumental Reconciliation (Alexander Robinson), 3. Computational Landscape Architecture: Procedural, Tangible, and Open Landscapes (Brendan Harmon, Anna Petrasova, Helena Mitasova and Vaclav Petras), 4. Get Animated! Dynamic Visualization and the Site Analysis Process (Ken McCown and Phil Zawarus), 5. The Landscape as Database (Chris Speed and Duncan Shingleton), 6. Discovering Landform Processes Through Creative 3d Mapping and Diagramming of Form, Pattern and Arrangement (Nadia Amoroso and Nadia D’Agnone), 7. Data Driven Landscape (Ming Tang), Part II: Processes, 8. Manufacturing Resonance (Michael Beaman and Zaneta Hong), 9. Expanded ‘Thick Description’: The Landscape Architect as Critical Ethnographer (Alison Hirsch), 10. Urban Morphology Phenomena: Post-Industrial Urban Landscapes (Laura Lovell-Anderson), 11. Ecological Urbanism: The Synthesis of Ethics, Aesthetics, and Cybernetics (Iman Ansari), 12. Engineering Nature (Patrick Franke and Nick Christopher), 13. Emergent Convergent Technology and The Informal Communities Initiative (Ben Spencer and Susan Bolton), 14. Varying Degrees of Impermanence: Art + Landscapes as Critical Provocation (Roberto Rovira), Part III: Profiles, Interview I: Mikyoung Kim Design (Mikyoung Kim), Interview II: PEG Office of Landscape + Architecture (Karen M’Closkey and Keither VanDerSys), Interview III: Illinois Institute of Technology Department of Landscape Architecture (Martin Felsen and Conor O’Shea), Interview IV: Rhode Island School of Design Department of Landscape Architecture (Suzanne Mathew)
Biography
Jonathon R. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Interior Design at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Furniture Design from Savannah College of Art & Design, USA, and a Bachelor of Science with a concentration in Architecture from Southern Illinois University, USA. Jonathon’s work explores how industrial manufacturing and CNC technologies influence the design and making processes.
Daniel H. Ortega is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. He holds a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. His scholarly interests lie in the intersection between visual representation and the cultural factors that affect the crafting of our built environment.
