Landscape architect in infrastructural territories, FAAR; oOR; LMLab; author of Living Systems & #TheSpoilsOfDust; Assoc. Prof @USCArchitecture; IG: aquercus
“Projecting Forward” calls for a third way to see Owens Lake, neither subjective nor objective. Robinson instead hails readers, whether policy-makers or landscape designers, to highlight a “middle ground” ... with focus on the foreground, the background, and sights between.
According to USC landscape architecture and urbanism professor Alexander Robinson, design allows for reinvention as restitution: https://t.co/sUveReN8EU
@JenniferEditor@landarchmag I loved this. The visuals and music (a few times slightly surging IMHO) stunned the entire room to put their devices down and watch plant grow and die.
Next up! Reprising Vittoria and my #willfulwaters#lariver chapter last year following the first #lacounty river master plan designs being released this month.
Join us at 6pm on 10/3 for a panel discussion on the L.A. River at @BestorArchitect, featuring @USCArchitecture's Vittoria Di Palma, Alex Robinson, Lauren Bon, Bill Deverell, Mia Lehrer, Miguel Luna + Deborah Weintraub. RSVP here https://t.co/ZWVsig5EgV
USC Architecture associate professor @oorscapes joins an incredible panel next Tuesday, Sept. 24, to explore LA’s relationship with the natural world in an evening curated by @HawthorneCDOLA. Learn more and RSVP here: https://t.co/JsFJTC8OEG
LA! On 9/24, join Lori Bettison-Varga, @nicolatwilley, @drjoshwest, @oorscapes, W'm Deverell & me inside the SelgasCano-designed @SECONDHOME_IO Pavilion at the La Brea Tar Pits to consider this city's, well, *fraught* relationship w/ the natural world: https://t.co/bFIr64R80q
“..it is time to set aside the goal of restoring the historical Everglades wilderness that Marjory Stoneman Douglas described. The Everglades today are a hybrid ecosystem that encompasses both natural and constructed landscapes.” #thisislandscapearchitecture
My @USCArchitecture landscape students came up with new proposals for the #SilverLake Reservoir as part of my studio, Re-Allocating the Reservoir. Proposals grew from a careful analysis of water, habitat, and community. #landscapearchitecture#uscmla https://t.co/YmSY2U0MKp
We have some exciting news to share! USC Architecture Appoints Alison Hirsch Director of Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program https://t.co/sxuAU7xiRz
A thread! @PlacesJournal published an article I wrote about the politics of shade in Los Angeles. Shade, as in, what’s under a tree, or a covered walkway, or created by an awning—basically, where you want to be on a hot day. It’s cooler there! 1/ https://t.co/Db472ZISu5
@latimes For a deep dive into the struggle for control between Los Angeles and its river, see "Willful Waters" in Places, by @USCArchitecture's Vittoria di Palma and @oorscapes https://t.co/AKEYoGTXZg
The LA River is flowing at close to 20 MPH. I was driving 10-15 MPH alongside it and a stick in the river was passing me. Be safe out there people! @NBCLA