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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The Río Piedras: An Urban River
Collaboration with Rutgers University, Department of Landscape Architecture, and Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. Thanks to MARVEL for its support to these projects.
Caribbean Infrastructural Landscapes for Climate Change
Human Culture and Nature: Making the Relationship Work
Based on a lecture given at CAAPPR on 13 April 2022, as part of the celebration of World Landscape Architecture Month. Culture and nature have been portrayed as contradictory or in conflict throughout many expressions of the Western tradition. From biblical literature to Christian theology to Moby Dick to La Charca, this conflict between natureContinue reading “Human Culture and Nature: Making the Relationship Work”
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”
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”
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”
Los árboles en el diseño urbano
Un escrito sobre el uso de los árboles en el diseño urbano, con especial referencia a Puerto Rico. Ver PDF adjunto:
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”
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