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Responsive Landscapes

Strategies for Responsive Technologies in Landscape Architecture

Authors
Bradley Cantrell & Justine Holzman
Publisher
Routledge, 2015
Foreword
Nataly Gattegno & Jason Kelly Johnson, Future Cities Lab "” "Towards a Robotic Ecology"
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The sensing, processing, and visualizing that are currently in development within the environment boldly change the ways design and maintenance of landscapes are perceived and conceptualized. This is the first book to rationalize interactive architecture and responsive technologies through the lens of contemporary landscape architectural theory.

Responsive Landscapes frames a comprehensive view of design projects using responsive technologies and their relationship to landscape and environmental space. Divided into six sections, the book frames projects through the terms elucidate, compress, displace, connect, ambient, and modify "” presenting a pragmatic framework for the integration of responsive technologies into landscape architecture. Complete with international case studies, the book explores approaches taken to utilize responsive technologies in current professional practice.

Case Studies

Elucidate
Wind Screen "” Höweler + Yoon Architecture
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011
Dune 4.2 "” Daan Roosegaarde, Studio Roosegaarde
Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2010
Nuage Vert "Green Cloud" "” Helen Evans & Heiki Hansen, HeHe
Helsinki, Finland, 2009
Confluence "” SCAPE / Landscape Architecture & The Living
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2012
Compress
The Theater of Lost Species "” Future Cities Lab
San Francisco, California, 2014
Emergence "” Obscura Digital
San Francisco, California, 2013
Datascape "” Yitian Wang, Yi Liu, Matty A. Williams, Synthetic Urban Ecologies Studio
West Oakland, California, 2013
Interview with Garth Williams
Displace
Living Light "” David Benjamin & Soo-in Yang, The Living
Seoul, Korea, 2009
Scent Garden "” Rodolphe el-Khoury, Drew Adams, James Dixon, Fadi Masoud
Xi'an, China, 2011
Datagrove "” Future Cities Lab
San Jose, California, 2012
Pachube / Xively / Thingful "” Usman Haque, Usman Design + Research
Web-based, London, 2008
Local Code "” Nicholas de Monchaux
San Francisco, California, 2012
Rapid Landscape Prototyping Machine "” Alexander Robinson, USC Landscape Morphologies Lab
Owens Lake, California, 2011
Interview with Nicholas de Monchaux
Connect
MIMMI "” INVIVIA & Urbain DRC
Minneapolis, 2013
Aviary "” Höweler + Yoon & Parallel Development
Dubai, UAE, 2013
Sky Ear "” Usman Haque, Haque Design + Research
Fribourg, Switzerland & London, 2004
Amphibious Architecture "” The Living & xClinic
New York City, 2009
H.O.R.T.U.S "” Claudia Pasquero & Marco Poletto, ecoLogic Studio
London, 2012
Augmented City 3D "” Keiichi Matsuda
London, 2010
Interviews with Allen Sayegh; Keiichi Matsuda
Ambient
Bloom "” Doris Sung, dO|Su Studio Architecture
Los Angeles, California, 2012
Reef "” Rob Ley & Joshua Stein
New York City, 2009
METAfollies "” Claudia Pasquero & Marco Poletto, ecoLogic Studio
Orleans, France, 2013
Epiphyte Chamber "” Philip Beesley
Seoul, Korea, 2014
Interview with Joshua Stein
Modify
Open Columns "” Omar Khan & Laura Garofalo
Buffalo, New York, 2007
Smart Highway "” Studio Roosegaarde & Heijmans Infrastructure
Netherlands, 2013
Vacuolar Effluvia Genesis "” Josh Brooks & Kim Nguyen, LSU Responsive Systems Studio
Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, 2011
Pod Mod "” Charlie Pruitt, Brennan Dedon & Rob Herkes, LSU Responsive Systems Studio
Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, 2011
Synthetic Mudscapes "” Jeff Carney, Bradley Cantrell, Matthew Seibert, Liz Williams, LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio
Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana, 2013
Interview with Daan Roosegaarde

Symposium "” Realities and Realms

A colloquium on the role of computation and robotics in landscape architecture and the expanding sensorial field of the built environment. Organized in two panel sessions, the symposium brought together practitioners, theorists, and academics to explore the future of responsive technologies in landscape architecture.

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Opening Remarks
Bradley Cantrell "” Associate Professor of Landscape Architectural Technology, Harvard GSD
Justine Holzman "” Assistant Professor, John H. Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto
Session 1: Realities "” Moderator: Justine Holzman
Sara Dean "” Assistant Professor of Graduate Design, California College of the Arts
Alexander Robinson "” Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
David J. Klein "” Director of AI, Conservation Metrics, Inc.
Nataly Gattegno "” Co-founder Future Cities Lab; Chair of Graduate Architecture, California College of the Arts
Session 2: Realms "” Moderator: Erle Ellis, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Rob Holmes "” Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Auburn University
Kathy Velikov "” Associate Professor, Taubman College, University of Michigan; co-founder, RVTR
Liam Young "” Fiction and Entertainment Coordinator, SCI-Arc

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Fall 2011
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Fall 2011
Synthetic Ecologies
Seminar "” Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, LSU
Spring 2013
Cyborg Coasts
Seminar "” Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Spring 2017