Happy to have coauthored this article at this crucial moment in our response to climate change. It brings complex theory down to everyday practice in landscape architecture… I hope that it is useful to many of our colleagues. Climate Justice 101: How to Prioritize Justice and Community
Category Archives: landscape
Entrevista: Ecología, ética, diseño y resiliencia en la arquitectura paisajista
Entrevista a José Juan Terrasa por Angélica Dávila, candidata al grado M.L.A. en la Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico. La entrevista se realizó el 8 de abril de 2025 en las oficinas de Marvel, en Santurce, Puerto Rico.
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SKETCHES: Their Three Lives An intimate exploration of sketches and their role in the creative life…. Link to Sketches (eBook) Link to Sketches (PDF) Link to Sketches (Paperback at Amazon.com)
Apuntes para la presentación de Ventana al paisaje
Apuntes para la presentación pública de Patrimonio vol. 8: Ventana al paisaje Arq. Psj. José Juan Terrasa-Soler Esta edición de Patrimonio que presentamos hoy públicamente contribuye a llenar un vacío grande que poco a poco hemos ido llenando en Puerto Rico – la conversación, el pensamiento y la acción sobre el paisaje nuestro. Además deContinue reading “Apuntes para la presentación de Ventana al paisaje”
Nature working for the city: Perspectives on ecological urbanism
Landscape architecture as an occupation, and later as a profession, has only 300 years of history; as a particular human activity, though, it essentially dates back to the emergence of humanity itself. This activity of human beings – to change their environment for their own survival, prosperity and enjoyment – definitely predates the construction ofContinue reading “Nature working for the city: Perspectives on ecological urbanism”
La naturaleza haciendo trabajo en la ciudad: perspectivas para la ciudad ecológica.
La arquitectura paisajista como oficio, y luego como profesión, tiene apenas 300 años de historia, pero como actividad humana se remonta esencialmente al surgimiento mismo de la humanidad. Esta actividad del ser humano de modificar su ambiente para su propia supervivencia, prosperidad y disfrute es definitivamente anterior a la construcción de edificios y encierra enContinue reading “La naturaleza haciendo trabajo en la ciudad: perspectivas para la ciudad ecológica.”
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”
Molecular Landscape Architecture (Paisajismo Molecular)
To Richard T. T. Forman, with great admiration and respect. Even though during the last 200 years the visual aspects of the design and construction of landscape have predominated, that definitively had not been the case during the rest of human history. Landscape has a utilitarian dimension that, while not completely absent at any timeContinue reading “Molecular Landscape Architecture (Paisajismo Molecular)”
Environmental Design
There can be no higher calling, no older human endeavor, than designing the human environment for the survival and enjoyment of our children. And doing so in an intelligent, mindful, and ecologically sensitive way has never been such an important task.
Flashback to Fields Point
From the bluff, the landscape was impressive…. The field was textured by the presence of mounds, as in a landfill…. And these tombs of culture marched on to the sea beyond, holding inside them the discarded carcasses of useless things…. The traces and scars of human culture over the face of the Earth…. the indelibleContinue reading “Flashback to Fields Point”
Flights of the Mind 
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