ARCHITECTURE | LANDSCAPE | DESIGN
A design blog by Paul Bamson
Currently a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design, Brad Collett has well over a decade of professional experience that he shares with his students. His talk titled “Decision Points” was centered around his professional development from choosing to study Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design at the University […]
To be honest, before the TN River Studio, I had really never thought much about the Tennessee River. I knew it was important, that it was modified by the Tennessee Valley Authority dams in the 1930’s, and that it wasn’t as clean as it could be, but there was so much I was missing about […]
In her talk “Environment and Architecture”, Kazuyo expands on her and her practice’s belief of deeply connecting interior and exterior space in order to create integration. The work of her practice SANAA, really exemplifies that integration through well thought out spaces that use form and flow to define space rather than the excessive use of walls. With […]
With climate becoming a greater issue in the 21st century, it is all the more important to establish architecture that not only responds to its local climate but also adapts to its change. In his talk “From the Bubble to the Sponge”, Scott Duncan, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP (SOM), lectured on many of […]
As the author of Local Code, a publication about the employing of digital tools to reengage abandoned parcels or lots in urban areas, Nicholas de Monchaux is very interested in the intersection of the digital and the physical. He believes that the digital can indeed influence and inform physical design decisions. The abandoned parcels, lots, […]
Thomas Woltz is currently the sole partner of Nelson, Byrd, Woltz, a landscape architecture and ecology firm based out of Charleston, VA with another office in New York. Since the firm’s founding in 1985, by Susan Nelson, Warren Byrd, and Thomas Woltz, NBW has striven to unify disciplines and expand territories with the fundamental belief […]
Philadelphia is a city steeped in history. Being one of the oldest cities in the country, from corner to corner, there was a ‘lived in’ feel that only a city that has been around a few hundred years could display. Although the city itself is not considered to be a Rust Belt city, the surrounding […]
Getting to learn about some of the ins and outs of working at a firm with the name sake of one of the most famous landscape architects,in this case Peter Walker, was especially eye-opening. Monica Way, who has been at Peter Walker and Partners for 3 Years, and Eustacia Brossart, for 5, were able to […]
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