Category Archives: Design

Paisajes Lineales

Los paisajes lineales son ambientes humanos que han estado históricamente influenciados por límites naturales muy fuertes o por vías de comunicación únicas (o pioneras), o por ambas circunstancias.  En Puerto Rico los paisajes lineales son fenómenos tanto costeros como montunos y se distinguen claramente del entramado urbano, que es característicamente más bidimensional. Los espacios habitadosContinue reading “Paisajes Lineales”

Landscape as Planes of Continuity

Landscape can be conceived as a series of continuing planes in space and time. Discontinuities or wrinkles in continuity might be found, but there is always at least one plane in which there is continuity in the landscape. The work of the landscape architect is to modulate those planes of continuity and discontinuity to transmitContinue reading “Landscape as Planes of Continuity”

New Book on Green Infrastructure

The book “Revising Green Infrastructure: Concepts Between Nature and Design” will be published in December 2014 by Routledge/CRC Press, London. It provides a fresh look at green infrastructure from the perspective of landscape architecture. Contributors come from all corners of the globe and the editors are members of the landscape architecture faculty at the TechnologicalContinue reading “New Book on Green Infrastructure”