Opening the Toolbox
I interview two landscape architects about how they express and advance their practice through software development.
Posts and Pages for /tags/computational-design
Sandscape and Datascape
An integrative approach to improving the accessibility and extensibility of tangible tables as general-purpose 'tools for thought'.
A Perennial Practice
Speculations on 'gardening' models of landscape architectural practice as means to design between urban landscapes and urban networks.
The Green Grasshopper
A discussion of strategies for teaching parametric approaches in landscape architectural education that re-orient the role of dynamic geometry.
Stacking Up
Stacks on stacks on stacks on stacks — the case for a more modular digital toolkit within landscape architecture.
A Field in Flux
Time is a flat canopy radius. A brief study in introducing parametric approaches to planting design.
Pruned Precedents & Growing Potentials
Thoughts on Julian Raxworthy's discussion of the 'process discourse' in landscape architecture and the digital techniques it promotes.
Adapting Computation to Adapting Landscapes
Few landscape architects have adopted computational tools and techniques. Why might that be?
Caribou
A Grasshopper plugin for importing, exploring, and processing data from Open Street Map.
Sandworm
Examining how landscape architects might bring augmented reality to the table.
Testing Terrain
My doctoral thesis, investigating how to develop and employ computational tools that model landscape architectural design strategies.
Groundhog
A Grasshopper plugin and documentation suite for designing landscapes using parametric models.
Processes and Processors
My masters thesis, exploring the overlap between design patterns and parametric design in landscape architecture.