The Landscape Architecture–AI Buffer Zone

April 10, 2024 Ι Metropolis Magazine  As part of his research into landscape architecture and digital technology, Aidan Ackerman, landscape architecture professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, has been examining landscape design magazines and periodicals going back to the 1980s to see how they conceptualized and predicted the integration of landscape… Continue reading The Landscape Architecture–AI Buffer Zone

A Radical Way of Teaching Architecture

April 5, 2022 Ι Bloomberg CityLab At the new architecture program at Bard College, now in its fourth semester, there’s lots of “troubling” and “unsettling” (used as verbs) to be done. Here, architecture is a method of critique, not a profession dedicated to making shelter. And instead of world-striding creative visionaries, its practitioners are presented… Continue reading A Radical Way of Teaching Architecture

What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture

February 12, 2021 Ι Architects Newspaper  In early June, I put on a white KN95 mask and a black sweater and left my apartment like thousands of other Chicagoans to protest the murder of Black Americans by police. An hour or so of marching and chanting culminated at an intersection near my home dominated by… Continue reading What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture