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a maintenance called desire
Although early “yard” and “street” sites have already been identified for maintenance experiments, “park” sites suitable for guerilla landscaping hadn’t yet been chosen. I visited a few sites around...
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mowing succession
In place of traditional research on maintenance convention, a maintenance palette will be developed, beginning with the most elemental tactics of mowing, hedging and spraying. These tactics will serve...
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yard urbanism and the dialectical landscape
After documenting and sketching a potential maintenance site, I mowed my lawn, had a cup of coffee and some apple pie, and did some reading. The mowing quickly revealed the limitations of my equipment,...
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shadow mowing
The last week has been consumed with studio group work unfortunately, leaving just enough time to develop a proposal for the first maintenance exhibition. The original plan for these exhibitions was to...
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the grass, the lawn mower, technology, etc…
Validating the previous month’s work, the Morven estate managers (Elton and Andy) approved my maintenance proposal, offering 5 acres of the farm for experimentation for the remainder of the academic...
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middle field | 1 | transect
The middle field maintenance series begins by mowing a series of transects to document the baseline population ecology of the site for comparison against future experiments. Later these transects will...
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maintenance as machine, system and network
The gorilla hanging in the room before any discussion of a maintenance design practice, is the term’s suffocating connotation: it’s static, blue-collar, noisy, smelly, complete banality. As mentioned...
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samples and experiments
If the maintenance of a landscape condition is understood as the sum collaboration of its components (birds, bees, flowers, trees, 2, 4-D), then a maintenance design practice understands these...
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the billy goat and the leaf blower
While the initial concept may have been simple, the design and logistics of the shadow mowing pushed its execution back to the edges of the growing season. Fortuitously, this allowed for a more...
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maintaining the pastoral | the hierarchy and agency of maintenance
The pastoral has been a ubiquitous landscape typology in western civilization for millennia. With roots in the vernacular and the classical concept of Arcadia, it especially becomes present in the...
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maintaining the pastoral | the machine in the garden
In my previous description on the maintenance of the pastoral typology (the Arcadian, the Virgillian, the middle landscape), my thought may have come off a little too linear: I am not actually...
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maintaining the pastoral | evolution of instruments
We all know the general rule, “the right tool for the right job,” but rarely do we acknowledge the agency of our tools: that their potential enables us to accomplish what may have not been possible...
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a note on clement
As pointed out early on by Mr. Julian Raxworthy, “don’t forget the big daddy, Gilles Clement,” and so a note has been long overdue. As a point of cultural difference, French landscape architecture...
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strange brew
Recently, I had the opportunity of visiting the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy to learn more about their experimental organic maintenance initiative. For those unfamiliar, the Greenway caps I-93...
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the grass, the lawn mower, technology, etc…
Validating the previous month’s work, the Morven estate managers (Elton and Andy) approved my maintenance proposal, offering 5 acres of the farm for experimentation for the remainder of the academic...
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strange brew
Recently, I had the opportunity of visiting the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy to learn more about their experimental organic maintenance initiative. For those unfamiliar, the Greenway caps I-93...
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summary of research to date
Contemporary practice marginalizes landscape process Despite a long-held infatuation with landscape process, the contemporary professional model is linear. Landscape is often mediated entirely through...
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introducing madison arms
spatial organization of richmond, virginia Richmond is a river city. Founded at the fall line on the north banks of the James River, its urban development parallels this historically essential...
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snow day
Because every snow day in Virginia carries a bit of a snowpocalypse vibe, the suddenness of snow removal is revealing of some overall maintenance concepts. From this point on, Northerners are welcome...
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