Student Design

As many of you know, the School of Landscape Architecture is gearing up for its second year at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show!  The 2013 show will exhibit garden vignettes that showcase…

Outlook for Employment in Landscape Architecture

Pretty soon many of you will be starting to search for jobs in the Landscape Architecture field, and by the looks of it, you're in luck! The ASLA recently posted the outlook for employment in the…

Giraffe Childcare Center

Giraffe Childcare Center by Hondelatte Laporte Architects Project description This public facility expresses the world of childhood. The idea is to create an event that leads the public space using…

Urban Ecology

How does one begin to define Urban Ecology? Take a look at this 3 minute video on The Dirt that starts to tackle this question. Do you think Urban Ecology is a model we as landscape designers and…

Monday Morning Photo

Monday morning photo, take a look at the tallest building in America, the Sears towers in Chicago, the owners decided to stall four glass-box viewing balconies that stick out of the building 103…

Top Five Textiles in 2013

Top Five Textiles trending right now 1. SoFar/SoNear – Cathay Cathay copper-polyester by SoFar/SoNear; sofarsonear.com.             2. Maharam – Ottoman Stripe Ottoman…

AAU live from NY Fashion Week!

Academy of Art University Fall ’13 Fashion Show – Live Webcast! WHEN: Friday, February 8th at 5:00 PM PST/8:00 PM EST WHERE: Watch here! Watch the Academy of Art of University Fall ’13 Fashion Show…

San Francisco Is The Happiest City In America

Whohooo not only it's Friday but a recent global perception survey ranked San Francisco the seventh happiest city in the world, and the only city in the United States to make the cut, says The…

An Italian Sojourn

From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

Based on a 1980s manga, Kokurikozaka kara, From Up on Poppy Hill tells the story of a high school girl named Umi Matsuzaki who lives in a boarding house near the Port of Yokohama in 1960s Japan.…