Journal / Field Notes
Notes on landscape practice
Site reading, planting, materials, climate, process and professional development.
Historical Geometry Reimagined: Reading the Past in a Contemporary Landscape
A landscape architect reads Reggia di Rivalta’s historic axis, diagonal paths and changing spatial perspectives alongside Caserta and Venaria.
Central Park’s Invisible Boundaries
A landscape architect’s look at Central Park: hidden roads, designed scenery, Seneca Village and the meanings of public access.
What Actually Makes a City Sustainable?
From Amsterdam’s mobility shift to rainwater systems, a design reading of sustainability as connected urban infrastructure.
The Water You See Is Only Half the Landscape: The Operating Systems Behind Three Iconic Projects
Versailles, the Diana Memorial Fountain and Cheonggyecheon reveal the same thing: water in landscape is not just an image. It is infrastructure, safety, maintenance and long-term operation.
A Landscape Approach to Children’s Play Spaces: Nature, Senses and Movement
Recently, I took my young nephew to a park and found myself paying more attention to the ground than to the play equipment. A standard play structure had…
Plan before landscape
Before choosing a visual language, I read scale, circulation, building–open space relationships, levels, entrances and constraints. This first reading shows where the landscape must connect, slow down, provide…
Planting is a climate decision
A planting palette is not a list of attractive species. It is a relationship between climate, water, soil, shade, maintenance, seasonality and use. Protected microclimates and open coastal…
From analysis to visual clarity
Plans, diagrams, 3D models and renders are not separate decorations. Each should make one design decision easier to understand: movement, planting structure, material character, comfort or implementation logic.