Terragrams is a podcast series providing a wide portal into the world of landscape architecture by the professionals who shape it. Running from 2006 to 2012, the podcast dispatched over 30 interviews. It is now being re-edited and re-broadcast. Learn more about Terragrams.
Stefan Rotzler has made projects for gardens, public spaces, sports facilities, infrastructure across Europe. After studying this History of Art, and working as a gardener, he attended the ITR Technical School in Rapperswil, Switzerland, before opening his own office.
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Claude Cormier is the founder of his eponymous practice. His work explores a conceptualist approach to landscape architecture that, in contrast to functionalist modes, explores a defining concept through all aspects of a project's design.
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Marc Treib is a professor emeritus of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a landscape and architectural historian and critic and has published extensively.
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Maria Goula is a landscape architect and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Urbanism and Territorial Planning of the Escola Tecnica Superior d’Arquitectura in Barcelona. In Dispatch 25 she discusses the Biennial, her Ph.D. work, the European Landscape Convention, teaching, and the state of the profession in Spain.
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Gabriele Kiefer founded Büro Kiefer, a landscape architecture studio that has worked across Germany and Europe. She was a finalist in Barcelona's 5th Biennal of landscape architecture for a project on the outskirts of Switzerland. Here, Gabriele discusses her Opfiker Park in Zurich, her major influences, her teaching, former industrial sites, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Alexander Reford is a historian and the director of the Reford Gardens of Metis in Quebec and the co-founder of the International Garden Festival of Metis. He has written a number of books and numerous articles in the fields of Garden Design, Canadian history and tourism. Here, Alexander talks to us about the 10th edition of the Metis Garden Festival, its future, the origin of Reford Gardens, the effects of tourism on the landscape, and blue sticks.
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Ken is the founder of the Ken Smith Workshop. He is most well-known for his Camouflage Roof Garden on the Museum of Modern Art and his current work for the Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California. In this dispatch, Ken discusses his work for the Orange County Great Park, working in India, growing up on a farm, John Cage, the European condition, and his first jobs out of college.
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René Bihan is a registered landscape architect and the managing principal of the San Francisco office of the SWA Group. He is also a commissioner for the San Francisco Arts Commission and has designed and managed projects such as Beijing Finance Street, the City College of San Francisco Master Plan, the Hong Kong Cultural Harbour, and the Salt Lake City Redevelopment of Blocks 75 and 76.
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John Beardsley has authored numerous books, including the well-recognized EarthWorks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape. In this dispatch, John discusses how his interest in Land Art was born, his project Dirtywork, the Quilts of Gee’s Bend, landscape strategies infiltrating from the outside, and his role as a teacher, curator and historian.
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Michael van Gessel is a Dutch landscape architect with a wide variety of experience as a sole practicioner and as a director at Bureau B+B. In this dispatch, he discusses his books, agricultural and rural territory in Europe, and his approach to sites.
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Liat Margolis is the co-author of Living Systems: Innovative Materials & Technologies for Landscape Architecture. In this dispatch, Liat discusses her book, her engagement with the world of materials, the GSD Materials Collection, the University of Toronto and the cocoa jute log.
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Gary Hilderbrand is a founding principals of Reed Hilderbrand and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Gary joins Terragrams to discuss his partnership with Douglas Reed, professional practice, multiple career paths, and his role in the 5th European Biennal of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona.
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Chris Reed is a registered landscape architect and the principal and founder of the Boston-based practice Stoss Landscape Urbanism. Stoss operates within and between the fields of urban design, landscape architecture and planning and recognizes the urban context, large and small-scale ecological systems and functionality as basic tenets of its practice.
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Kristine Jensen is a Danish landscape architect with her Studio AKJT in Aarhus. At the Aarhus School of Architecture, she received her PhD and Masters of Architecture in Landscape Architecture. She is the winner of the 5th Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize for the Nicolai Kulturcenter project.
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In this dispatch we are in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and are joined by Richard Forman. Richard is Harvard University’s Professor of Advanced Environmental Studies in the Field of Landscape Ecology. Richard discusses the hurdles to creating a healthy urban environment, endangered landscapes, who is making a difference today, and teaching at the GSD.
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Reuben Rainey returns to Terragrams and discusses his latest work on Garden Story: Inspiring Spaces, Healing Places, a 10-part series of half-hour programs for Public Television on how gardens improve our lives and our communities. He also gives us more insight on his nearly 3 decades of teaching at UVA and on the career of Robert Royston.
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In this dispatch, Reuben Rainey talks to Robert Royston (1918-2008), a pioneer of modernism in landscape architecture. After volunteering to fight in World War II, he established a rich collaboration with Garret Eckbo and Edward Williams. During this period, and thereafter, Royston designed an extraordinary large number of suburban parks. His most recent firm has evolved into Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abbey.
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With her studio, Wanted, Meijerink has built 2 gardens for the International Garden Festival of Metis in Quebec and is presently working on a roof deck for a 700 unit tower in Miami as well as a masterplan for a development near Shanghai. At the GSD, Meijerink is researching the benefits of asphalt and in our dispatch discusses her 'asphalt manifesto' and the On Asphalt project.
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Elizabeth Meyer is an Associate Professor and has twice acted as the Director of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia. Here, she discusses her latest book project entitled 'Groundwork', past and present landscape architectural theory, creativity, site interpretation, the ASLA Student Awards, women in the practice, and the MOMA Groundswell Exhibition.
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Niall Kirkwood is a former Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In this dispatch, Mr. Kirkwood recalls his introduction to the world of landscape architecture, describes the role of the super absorbent polymer in his Sponge City project, and discusses the research of his books and research.
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Tom Campanella is an assistant professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina. In this dispatch he discusses resilient cities, the loss of the American Elm tree, the American suburb, and current developments in China.
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Michael Vergason talks about his practice, the process of drawing, the ASLA, and his experience as a principal at EDAW. He is principal of Michael Vergason Landscape Architects and the 2006 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professorship in Architecture at the University of Virginia.
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James Corner, landscape architect and urban designer, is the founder and director of Field Operations and a previous chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Penn Design. Here, Corner discusses his evolution as a landscape architect, his relationship with Ian McHarg as well as his role on the Freshkills Park and the High Line projects in New York.
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Jane Amidon is an Assistant Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture as well as the principal of Amidon Design Communication. She is also the editor for the first four Source Books in Landscape Architecture as well as the author of Dan Kiley's monograph and Radical Landscapes. Here she talks about books and her role as a practitioner and professor.
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Elias Torres is a Doctorate in Architecture, the Partner of Lapeña-Torres Arquitectos in Barcelona, and a professor of Architecture at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona. Here he discusses his role as an educator and a designer, the role of landscape in the city and a number of his constructed projects such as the Barcelona Forum.
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Bet was the principal of her own practice as well as a Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In this episode she spoke about Barcelona, her role in public space-making in the region, her growth as a designer, and her collaboration for the project of Barcelona’s Botanical Gardens.
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In the debut Terragram, Julie Bargmann, the founder of D.I.R.T. Studio, Charlottesvile, Virginia, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and previous Director of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture talks candidly about the evolution of her practice, her role as an artist as well as a teacher and the importance of reclaimed landscapes.
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