places – mammoth // building nothing out of something

Tag Archives: places

July 31, 2013 – 10:58 am

signs and obscure marks

[Lake Guntersville, Alabama’s largest lake, which was created with the construction of the Guntersville Dam by the TVA in the late 1930’s.] At Places, Shannon Mattern reviews various practices which she collectively terms “infrastructural literacy” projects, including “touring, collecting, and documenting infrastructure” (the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, for instance), “sensing infrastructure” (Nick Sowers’ Soundscrapers), and […]

By rholmes | Posted in geography, infrastructure, landscape | Also tagged , , , , | Comments Off on signs and obscure marks | Permalink
October 11, 2011 – 6:00 am

quilian riano interviews chris reed

Quilian Riano interviews Chris Reed (Stoss Landscape Urbanism) for Places; the interview touches on a broad range of topics, including Stoss’s recent work, the importance of an expanded field for landscape architecture, and possibilities for inventing flexible alliances between design teams and collaborators in “related fields such as engineering, ecology, economics, etc.”: “Within this expanded […]

By rholmes | Posted in asides, landscape-architecture, the-expanded-field, urbanism | Also tagged , , , | Comments Off on quilian riano interviews chris reed | Permalink
March 16, 2010 – 6:00 am

places on architectural criticism

While mammoth by no means aspires to fit within the category of architectural criticism (though we do occasionally have something to say about it), Nancy Levinson’s recent meta-criticism of the genre in Places strikes me as essentially correct: By now the rules are so familiar they seem almost inevitable. We’ve come more or less to […]

By rholmes | Posted in architecture, asides, meta | Also tagged | Comments (7) | Permalink