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Urban Typology: Reprogramming Exposition Park Into An Inner City Haven, Nicole T. Corsaro

Landscape Architecture

Exposition Park is located in Los Angeles with its main wayfinding

points being the Harbor 110 Freeway and the southern most point of

the USC campus. At 160 acres of land this park began with 3 museums

and sa sunken garden. It currently has 8 venues with the main attractions

being the Natural History Museum, the Memorial Coliseum,

Rose Garden and Science Center.

This site is a center for annual summer concerts, film festivals, 5ks,

and swap meets. Each of the venues expects millions of visitors annually.

It is a place I have visited weekend after weekend and have wished …

Moor Movement: Automated Docking On Drought-Stricken Reservoirs, Daniel Beck

Landscape Architecture

Moor Movement establishes a mechanized docking system for unpredictable shoreline fluctuations on inland lakes and reservoirs. Due to climate change and warmer global temperatures, the threat of ocean level rise has initiated massive proposals to address the interface between ocean and man-made infrastructure. While this is a monumental problem, ocean level rise is not the only immediate threat. The recently declared emergency drought conditions in California are finally bringing attention to inland lakes and reservoirs. While ocean levels might rise 2-7 feet in 100 years, a lake could drop 100 feet in 5 years. What happens to access roads, marinas, …

Alive! A Dynamic Process Of Renewal At Pier 70., Kalyn Crosier

Landscape Architecture

Alive is a project proposal for the most northern portion of Pier 70 in San Francisco at the historical slip number four. The project strives to reinvigorate a toxic brownfield with remediation systems, transforming the location into a productive landscape beneficial to surrounding neighborhoods. The project strives to revitalize adjacent communities as well as natural ecosystems.

[Inside]Out Environment And Education As One, Samantha Plete

Landscape Architecture

[inside]OUT is my vision for Channel Islands High School as a water-conscious and user based institution. With a specific focus on the Quad, the school’s central plaza, I re-imagine CI as a living, educational landscape.

I chose to take on this project because I want to make a difference for this school that is close to my heart. I want it to thrive by sustainable means.

With the severe California drought and global water crisis, it is time to shift the status quo in regards to water consumption. After much site analysis and countless iteration, I have created a new …

Flowing Colors, Ang Li

Landscape Architecture

The Flowing Colors Project responds to the task of competition of Global Schindler Award to design a creation of interactive urban ensembles which focus on modes of mobility and the interplay with built environment in SQ Neighborhood.

The Tendril, Nicole Flinn

Landscape Architecture

This modular vineyard took the traditional understanding of growing wine grapes and turned it on its side. A site that was once covered completely in vines is transformed into a tower-like form to maximize space and growing potential. By performing these practices in a controlled environment every element is carefully manipulated for desirability.

The Nest: Nursery & Trails, Brianna Graham

Landscape Architecture

The Nest is the development of a wholesale and retail nursery in

Nipomo, California, with accompanying residence. Phased project

additions include planting display gardens, developing a trail system,

installing the necessary facilities to accommodate weddings, establishing

a natural adventure playground, and opening a Bed & Breakfast.

The display gardens will not only teach about ecology, plant communities,

and planting design but serve as a lovely outdoor venue

for special events and as especially attractive backdrops for photography.

Crisis In Landscape Representation, Cesar Torres Bustamante

Landscape Architecture

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Reformulating Urban Landscapes: Figure-Ground Maps, Cesar Torres Bustamante

Landscape Architecture

A type of map traditionally used in the analysis of urban form is figure‐ground, a drawing that traditionally depicts the buildings as figures against a visually contrasting ground. It finds certain antecedents in Gestalt psychology, as both drawings rely on the perceptible difference between figure and ground. However an unwanted extrapolation from Gestalt is the imposition of hierarchies, indispensable for visual segregation of figure and ground, but detrimental for the potential of figure‐ground as mapping. Mapping is a creative and cognitive activity, ruled by processes of selection and schematization. The potential of the figure‐ground map to reveal new relationships and …

Some Thoughts Concerning Fountains, Gary C. Dwyer

Landscape Architecture

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Superficies And Surfaces, Cesar Torres Bustamante

Landscape Architecture

No abstract provided.

Cinematic Representation: Jardín El Carmen, Cesar Torres Bustamante

Landscape Architecture

No abstract provided.

Social Choreography: Architecture Or Landscape?, Cesar Torres Bustamante

Landscape Architecture

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Field Book Of Western Wildflowers, Margaret Armstrong, J. J. Thornbern, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xx, 596 pages color frontispiece, illustrations, color plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. "With five hundred illustrations in black and white, and forty-eight plates in color drawn from nature by the author." Publisher should be G. P. Putnam's Sons. Includes index. Decorated publisher's binding. Title lettering and cover design by Margaret Armstrong, emboss in gold on red cloth, light-orange on edges. "Eighth printing, August 1926" Armstrong was one of the first women to descend to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. She is credited with discovering new flower species there.

The Art Of Landscape Architecture: Its Development And Its Application To Modern Landscape Gardening, Samuel Parsons, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xxi, 347 p., [46] leaves of plates : ill. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-341) and index. Lowthorpe Collection Bound in gray cloth. Front cover board has a decorative illustration to the center. A circular medallion with a landscape scene is set within a line motif with decorative patterning, stamped in gold and black.

The Flower Beautiful, Calrence Moores Weed, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

x, 136 pages : illus., leaves of plates (incl. front). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Embossed color illustration on cover. Lowthorpe Collection.

Old Time Gardens, Alice Morse Earle, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xviii, 489 pages : illus., leaves of plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Stamped, color illustration on cover. c. 1 Lowthorpe Collection.

How To Know The Ferns : A Guide To The Names, Haunts, And Habits Of Our Common Ferns, Frances Theodora Parsons (Mrs. William Starr Dana), Marion Satterlee, Alice Josephine Smith, Special Collections

Landscape Architecture

xiv, 215 p. : ill., front. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes indexes. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor M. Phillips

Art Out-Of-Doors, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselear), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

x, 399 pages. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-399). Lowthorpe Collection Bound in green cloth. Front cover board has an illustration of two stylized trees at crossed angles. A ring circles the cross point of the trees and an open pair of shears and an open compass intertwine the ring.

How To Know The Wild Flowers : A Guide To The Names, Haunts, And Habits Of Our Common Wild Flowers, Mrs. William Starr Dana (Frances Theodora Parsons), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xxxix, 346 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Second edition, with colored plates. 71st thousand. Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Elsie Louise Shaw.

Landscape Gardening, Samuel Parsons, Alice C. Smith, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xxii, 329 pages : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Both copies Lowthorpe Collection. Bound in green cloth. Front cover board has a decorative floral motif stamped in gold within a rectangular box, to lower center of the board. Below the title and author are small floral motifs stamped in gold. Floral motifs are stamped in gold on the spine, and a vertical floral border is stamped in gold (a few inches in from the spine) on the front and back cover boards. Binding design by Alice C. …