Landschaft Visions

This blog is dedicated to visualizing contemporary landscape. It intends to question, critique and understand, through various visual means, how natural and urban landscapes coexist and evolve.

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Beautiful!

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The book is called How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of The Modern City by: Joan DeJean http://t.co/8mjn9G7bL1 if you were wondering.

The book is called How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of The Modern City by: Joan DeJean http://t.co/8mjn9G7bL1 if you were wondering.

— Morgan Baskin (@MorganBaskinTO) August 2, 2014

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Interesting read

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I am finally beginning to see how it looks like...and it is only a fraction of the whole thing.  (Hint: this is not a building)

More updates to come on my new mystery project

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Moshav Villages of Israel | Via

Moshav is a type of agricultural community in Israeli consisting of a group of individual farms. The moshav is generally based on the principle of private ownership of land, emphasis on community labor and communal marketing. Workers produce crops and goods on their properties through individual or pooled labour and resources, and use profit and foodstuffs to provide for themselves. The farmers pay an amount of tax and this money is used to provide agricultural services to the community, like buying supplies and marketing the farm produce.

The first moshav was established in the Jezreel Valley in 1921. During the period of large-scale immigration after the creation of Israel  in 1948, the moshav was found to be an ideal settlement form for the new immigrants, almost none of whom were accustomed to communal living. By 1986 about 156,700 Israelis lived and worked on 448 moshavim.

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Deep into the water, deep into the unknown... The new mapping project is well underway. So excited and overwhelmed at the same time!

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This man is doing some very important work! Mind-blowing discoveries!

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The Biomimicry Manual: What Can Dung Beetles Teach Us About the Circular Economy?

The Circular Economy is a game changer, but how does a company find and collect valuable waste before the competition does? The dung beetle shows us how.

These are awesome articles!

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Breaking news from Paris! The Pont des Arts, famous because of the large amount of love locks which were placed on its fences by thousands of couples… began to collapse due to the high weigh of these love locks.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, as a consequence, ordered the removal of all the love locks. The Pont des Arts will never be the same anymore. An international love symbol has disaspeared…

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Athabasca Oil Sands - Syncrude Mine (2014)

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EPIC!  We should glorify nature like that more often

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Adriaan Geuze lectures in Toronto, April 3, 2014

It was a crowded lecture but I managed to catch him while he was in Toronto.  He is incredibly inspirational and manages to push boundaries in landscape architecture field with his firm West 8.  He kept the focus on West 8's 4 best projects, describing the importance of metaphors and poetry in a constructed landscape. The approach he takes is filled with inspiration from various sources.  Through his visually rich slides he explained the concept behind each project with a sensitive and tactical analysis of existing conditions through references to landscape art, collective landscape of the country, qualities of light, movement of people, immediate vistas, historical significance and emotional connection to the landscape.  Some interpretations were surface level at best, but it did not deter him from creating unique site responses and a deep sense of place.  His keen attention to settlement pattern and social attitudes makes him a strong design force when shaping the future landscapes for our habitation.

All the projects were public in their nature, but their ambition and creativity made them stand out, as it is rare to see such adventurous projects make it through all the politics and bureaucracies.  "You have to have almost a ridiculous approach to design at that level", explained Geuze.  Could that be a solution that cuts through all the public scrutany?  I guess by ridiculous, he meant to put on a show for people, and entice them with a charismatic personality and visuals. Nowadays it becomes almost necessary for landscape architects and architects to fulfill a role of a performer when presenting their ideas.  Could it be that simply laying down the facts along with comprehensive visuals, does not cut it anymore?  

Either way it is an exciting skill set to add to our creative portfolio.  That way we can make vibrant and healthy public spaces that in turn create resilient cities of the future.

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Remembering Harbour City, Toronto's unbuilt town on the lake

When Rocco Rossi announced his fantasy tunnel earlier this week, it got me thinking about other grand Toronto projects that were proposed but never completed. There's been some dandies over the years, many of which are discussed in Mark Osbaldeston's excellent book, Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City that...

Take a look at this vision of Harbour City by Eberhard Zeidler from late 1960s.  Imagine how such planning would have shaped Toronto!  This project desperately needs to be revisited by our city planners and architects.  I feel like the seeds have been planted with Toronto Waterfront revitalization along with proposed Portlands redevelopment.  Looking at a compelling vision like Harbour City, could we borrow some ideas and interpret them using contemporary building methods and technology? I think there is quite a bit to learn...

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Artist Isaac Cordal's Incredible Tiny Sculptures Offer a Chilling View of Climate Change

Artist Issac Cordal offers us a new perspective on these issues through his provocative series of tiny cement sculptures that challenge our views of society.

Amazing!

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Designing Cities that Positively Impact Mental Health - Spacing Toronto

A critically important conversation topic that we should begin to engage in is how we can strategically use the design of cities to positively impact mental health.  This assertion may seem counter-intuitive given that cities are often associated with a number of factors that are popularly believed to agitate, and sometimes even spark some mental …

City building is an important topic for our survival and evolution of our species.  Dismissing design of the city instead of participating in it, has detrimental consequences on our lives in our urban environment.  Great photos and drawings!

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Daydreaming in the mountains...i will return to these lands, because this is where I came from. Lake Issyk. Almaty, Kazakhstan. August 2013.

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A way forward...

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A sketch I made after visiting lake Issyk while in Kazakhstan last summer. This was at the roadside on the way to the lake. Interesting juxtaposition of crumbling rocks and graffiti portrait of Lenin. Stay tuned for more of the travel sketches!