New Books Network Podcast

Landscape Architecture May 4, 2021

Teaching Landscape

The Studio Experience

Karsten Jørgensen et al.

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience (Routledge, 2019) gathers a range of expert contributions from across the world to collect best-practice examples of teaching landscape architecture studios. This is the companion volume …

Landscape Architecture September 8, 2020

Primer of Ecological Restoration

Karen Holl

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscapes and waterways through agriculture, logging, mining, and fire …

Landscape Architecture September 1, 2020

Motor City Green

A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit

Joseph S. Cialdella

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020) is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the …

Landscape Architecture August 25, 2020

DIY City

The Collective Power of Small Actions

Hank Dittmar

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Some utopian plans have shaped our cities —from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for Washington, DC. But these grand …

Architecture July 22, 2020

Be Seated

Laurie Olin

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Today I talked to Laurie Olin about his book Be Seated (ORO Editions, 2017). Olin’s interest in public outdoor seating in parks and civic spaces revolves around two poles: the …

Landscape Architecture July 15, 2020

France Sketchbook

Laurie Olin

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of America’s most distinguished landscape architects, has …

Architecture June 5, 2020

Active Landscape Photography

Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture

Anne Godfrey

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks …

Architecture April 21, 2020

Farmscape

The Design of Productive Landscapes

Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren's book Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes (Routledge, 2020) situates agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies and analytical …

Architecture April 16, 2020

Planting Design

Connecting People and Place

Patrick Mooney

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Landscape designers have long understood the use of plants to provide beauty, aesthetic pleasure and visual stimulation while supporting a broad range of functional goals. However, the potential for plants …

Architecture February 24, 2020

Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape (3rd Edition)

Simon Bell

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Elements of Visual Design in the Landscape (Routledge, 2019) presents a vocabulary of visual design, structured in a logical and easy to follow sequence. It is profusely illustrated using both …

Architecture December 6, 2019

Climate Action Planning

A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities

Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve, Tammy L. Seale

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities (Island Press, 2019) is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to …

Architecture November 29, 2019

Erik Gunnar Asplund

Landscapes and Buildings

Malcolm Woollen

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, weaving together art, philosophy, history, and literature, this book investigates the landscapes and buildings of Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund. Through critical essays and beautiful illustrations …

Architecture November 19, 2019

Agricultural Landscapes

Seeing Rural Through Design

Dewey Thorbeck

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Dewey Thorbeck's new book Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design (Routledge, 2019) follows on from the author’s previous books, Rural Design and Architecture and Agriculture, to encourage using design thinking …

Architecture November 15, 2019

Beyond Mobility

Planning Cities for People and Places

Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra, and Stefan Al

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places (Island Press, 2017) by Robert Cervero, Erick Guerra and Stefan Al is about prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people and the …

Architecture November 12, 2019

Random Imaginations

A Collection of Illustrated Musings

Eddie Chau

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Today I talked to Eddie Chau about his new book Random Imaginations: A Collection of Illustrated Musings (ORO Editions, 2018). The book is a reproduction of thousands of graphic images …

Architecture November 5, 2019

The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag

From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design

Thaïsa Way

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Today I talked to Thaïsa Way about her new book, The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design (University of Washington Press, 2019). Haag is …

Architecture October 30, 2019

Doing Almost Nothing

The Landscapes of Georges Descombes

Marc Treib

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Today I talked to Marc Treib about his new book Doing Almost Nothing: The Landscapes of Georges Descombes (ORO Editions, 2019). Until now, writings about the architect/landscape architect Georges Descombes …

Architecture October 23, 2019

Captured Landscape

Architecture and the Enclosed Garden (2nd Edition)

Kate Baker

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

In her book Captured Landscape: Architecture and the Enclosed Garden (Routledge, 2018; 2nd edition), Kate Baker discusses the continuing relevance of the typology of the enclosed garden to contemporary architects …

Architecture October 7, 2019

Planning Singapore

The Experimental City

Stephen Hamnett and Belinda Yuen

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

In this episode, we talk with Stephen Hamnett about Planning Singapore: The Experimental City (Routledge, 2019), a book he edited with Belinda Yuen. Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles …

Architecture October 1, 2019

McClean Design

Creating the Contemporary House

Paul McClean

Hosted by Tricia Keffer

Paul McClean grew up in Ireland, where he studied architecture before moving to Southern California and establishing McClean Design. Over the past 18 years it has grown into one of …