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Today, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) is widespread in application across many fields. In fact, its history and essence are closely tied to our industry. Landscape architects are familiar with Ian L. McHarg’s book “Design with Nature”. While explicating his “Layer-cake” and “Overlay” method of site analysis, he outlined the connections between sensitive urban development, social factors, and ...

In this second iteration of our series on the concept of Transitional Housing, Kiyohito Tamotsu shares an insightful piece on the topic from a Japanese perspective.

The National University of Singapore’s Landscape Architecture programme is a core programme of Asia’s premier school of design and the built environment. Starting from the inception of the Master of Landscape Architecture in 2009, NUS Landscape Architecture has grown to also offer the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in 2020, marking an exciting milestone for tertiary-level landscape ...

The landscape architecture education in Tsinghua School of Architecture started in 1951 with the "garden group", which was jointly organized by the Tsinghua Department of Architecture, Beijing Agriculture University, and the Construction Bureau of Beijing Municipal Government. The Department of Landscape Architecture was founded in 2003, with Prof. Laurie Olin (Academician of the U.S. Academy of ...

What do we really know about contemporary Asian landscape architecture? From outside of the region, knowledge is sporadic, gleamed from project descriptions on websites or the rare presentation at a conference. Within Asia, there has been limited exchange, complicated by the relative youth of the discipline, along with the fact that a collective notion of an Asian identity is new. With so many ...

The 58th IFLA World Congress will be held in Gwangju, Korea in the fall of 2022. It is very meaningful to host a festival in Korea that will be joined by landscape architects from all over the world.

Today marks the 10th year of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011.

Ko Landscape Architects experiences both pride and humility in its role in creating spaces that shape the way we live and enhance the everyday experience. Through close dialogue with clients, communities, and peers, KOLA is delivering a diverse body of work that speaks of uniqueness and richness. With well-rounded backgrounds in landscape, geography, architecture and arboriculture, the team is ...

Jane Jacob’s ecosystemic approach in understanding urban design anticipated many widely recognised principles of sustainable city, such as accessibility, compactness, connectivity, walkability, and diversity.

In Hong Kong Government’s Policy Address 2019, the target of providing 10,000 units of transitional housing units has been increased to 15,000 within a year to accommodate low-income individuals and families with urgent housing needs who have been waiting for public rental housing for over three years and are living in deplorable conditions.