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Pok talks about how he found his own approach and style for landscape design. Pok Kobkongsanti is perhaps Thailand #39;s leading landscape architect, Kobkongsanti heads up a team of designers...

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Massive: Peter Spooner's work on the highway to Newcastle, north of Sydney. He paid special attention to the landforms while selecting on-site alignments for vistas and construction.

PETER SPOONER 1919-2014

Professor Emeritus Peter Spooner made an outstanding contribution to landscape design as a professional discipline and activity in Australia. His appreciation of Fine Arts and practical skills enabled him to create some memorable landscape designs, record buildings and environments in crayon and pencil and restore antique furniture.

His many friends and colleagues enjoyed correspondence and cards written in his beautiful copperplate script. He encouraged architects and subsequently landscape architects to design with utility and beauty, but his overriding achievement was in the educational development of the professional landscape architecture discipline at the University of NSW.

Recognition: Peter Spooner in 1971.

Peter Spooner was born on November 4, 1919 in Rose Bay and in 1933 the family moved to Vaucluse to live in the house his father built, designed by Leslie Wilkinson. Peter's father and Wilkinson became lifelong friends, which may have influenced Peter's decision to become an architect after he completed his schooling at Scots College.

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While studying architecture at the Sydney Technical College, Spooner met a fellow student, Myles Dunphy, who introduced him to the joys of bushwalking and mapping. This friendship continued throughout their lives.

Spooner finished his Diploma of Architecture (Honours) a year early and joined the army as a lieutenant. He was deployed to Darwin during World War II and during his service, in 1942, he married Jean Morris, a secretary in an architectural office.

After the war Spooner designed and built a reinforced concrete house (bombproof) in Kissing Point Road, which was featured in magazines. The Spooners lived there for a few years until he designed and built his next house, in Warrangi Street, Turramurra. This was an innovative Y-shaped house and was also featured in the press.

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Narrative / Reality - Poetics and performance in soil, part 1
The Narrative of Landscape Symposium, Archizoom, 07-09.10.14 moderator: Farzaneh Bahrami, Laboratory of Urbanism, EPFL Paola Vigan - architect and urban designer, Professor Laboratory of...

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By Lois Puglionesi CORRESPONDENT

HAVERFORD TWP. -- Landscape architect and planner Thomas Comitta and Deputy Police Chief John Viola completed testimony before the Zoning Board in a case concerning Delaware County Outdoor LLCs substantive validity challenge to township ordinances that allegedly exclude commercial off-premises advertising billboards.

DC Outdoor filed the challenge in October 2013, alleging that Haverford zoning ordinances do not allow billboards, a legitimate business use, anywhere in the township. DC Outdoor also entered into lease agreements to install billboards at 510-534 and 1200 West Chester Pike. However, DC Outdoor did not file specific plans.

Presented as a witness by solicitor James Byrne, Comitta said he reviewed the Delaware County Planning Departments 1994 Historic Resource Survey for Haverford Township, where he found 119 historic properties inventoried. Many neighborhoods are over a century old, Comitta said. The presence of historic resources, as well as other factors Comitta cited at prior hearings, render Haverford an inappropriate place to install large, 672-square foot billboards, Comitta said.

Comitta affirmed that he based his assumptions about the size of signs on a prior case that began in 2009, when Bartkowski Investment Group made a similar validity challenge and proposed five 672-square foot billboards, 55-77 feet high, at five locations in Haverford. The Zoning Board denied and dismissed the application in Feb. 2012. Common Pleas Court upheld the ruling on appeal.

Comitta recalled that BIG presented expert witnesses who said billboards could only be safe and effective at those configurations. Township engineer Dave Pennoni and assistant township manager Lori Hanlon-Widdop recently based their testimony on similar assumptions.

Viola followed suit when he testified from his perspective as a police officer of 44 years, well-acquainted with traffic conditions and issues on West Chester Pike.

The 10-12 second window required for viewing a billboard could prove deadly along the heavily trafficked corridor, Viola said. When driving on the Pike You have to have your utmost attention on the roadway. Billboards would add to the confusion...and the amount of accidents because of distraction, said Viola.

Viola presented data showing that police investigated 2,551 accidents on West Chester Pike, between Lawrence and Township Line Roads, from 2011-2014. He also presented a log of 5,434 traffic citations between March 2009 and January 2014 for that area.

During cross-examination DC Outdoor attorney Amee Farrell noted that accident data Viola provided reflects the number of vehicles involved in accidents, not the number of incidents.

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Photographers who documented landscape, street scenes and the San Fernando Valleys pornography industry, plus an exhibition that brings together L.A. and Latin America, abstractions made with books, and a show about the artistic interventions of an Italian architect. Also, a 1976 work of video art made up entirely of declassified mushroom clouds, a musical about love and a bio-mass, as well as an opportunity to request your FBI files. Its a busy weekend in L.A. Heres what weve got in the hopper:

Larry Sultan: Here and Home, at LACMA. This is the first retrospective devoted to examining the career of this important L.A. photographer, who passed away in 2009. It includes an overview of his various bodies of work, from his early conceptual experiments (self-published books full of images appropriated from the archives of research institutions and corporations) to his series The Valley, which captures the suburban settings inhabited by Southern Californias porn industry. Opens Sunday. On view through March 27. 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Mid-City, lacma.org.

Bruce Davidson/Paul Caponigro: Two American Photographers in Britain and Ireland, at the Huntington. Speaking of photography Black-and-white images of Britain and Ireland by two master photographers -- Bruce Davidson, who is widely renowned for his street pictures, and Paul Caponigro, whose focus is landscape -- are being presented by the Huntington. Opens Saturday. On view through March 9. 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino,hungtington.org.

Bruce Conner, Crossroads, at Kohn Gallery. The gallery will show one of the most violently seductive works of video art around: Conners Crossroads, from 1976, is made from more than 30 minutes of declassified government footage of the underwater atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Opening reception Saturday, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. On view through Dec. 20. 1227 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood, kohngallery.com.

TONIGHT: Love Has Many Faces: An Evening with Joni Mitchell, at the Hammer Museum. Mitchell will introduce a screening of The Fiddle and the Drum, a ballet about environmental degradation that is set to her song. (This is an issue dear to the singers heart.) Mitchell will stick around for a Q&A afterward. Tonight at 7:30, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood, hammer.ucla.edu.

Javier Tapia and Camilo Ontiveros, Travelling Dust, at the 18th Street Arts Center. An exhibit exploring the connections between Chile, Mexico and Los Angeles will consist of objects gathered in all three locations -- including pieces from the San Gabriel Mission -- and presented, museum-style at this Santa Monica art center (now celebrating its 25th year). Opening reception Friday, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. On view through Dec. 12. 1639 18th St., Santa Monica, 18thstreet.org.

Samuel Levi Jones: Black White Thread, at Papillion.Jones, an artist known for his abstract assemblages of repurposed book covers -- and recent winner of the Studio Museum in Harlems Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize -- unveils his latest solo effort at Papillion, the popular new Leimert Park art space. Opens Saturday at 6 p.m. 4336 Degnan Blvd., Leimert Park, Los Angeles, papillionart.com.

LAST CHANCE: Beyond Environment, at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Its the last weekend for this small yet highly intriguing exhibition that tracks the artistic collaborations of Italian architect Gianni Pettena with American artists such as Robert Smithson (of Spiral Jetty fame). These often-wry works lie at the intersection of land art, architecture and performance and include images of surreptitious cardboard installations in Italian plazas, photographs of a Smithson dump-truck project in Italy (in which the artist poured asphalt down the side of a mountain), along with some truly wondrous pictures of a Minnesota project, in which Pettena buried houses in blocks of ice. Through Sunday. 6522 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, welcometolace.org.

TONIGHT: Megan Daalder, Eureka and the Biomass Man, at Five Car Garage. This sounds like a good one: a sci-fi mini-musical about a love affair between a synthetic organism and a human. It will be staged in a five-car garage gallery (hence the name) in Santa Monica for three nights starting today. The show includes vegan gelatin shots. Performances will be held for three days starting today (Nov. 6-8) at 8 p.m., with an extra performance on Saturday at 6 p.m. RSVP for a seat and the Santa Monica address,emmagrayhq.com.

Dave Naz, Identity, at Coagula Curatorial. A long-time erotic photographer (and former punk rocker), the L.A.-based Naz now turns his lens onto the issue of gender identity with a series of portraits that capture its entire spectrum. The show coincides with the publication of Nazs book, Genderqueer. Opening reception Saturday, from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. On view through Dec. 20. 974 Chung King Road, Chinatown, Los Angeles, coagulacuratorial.com.

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Concrete: Rome to Rhino Lecture
erhaps no other material has transformed the built landscape as has concrete. From its development by ancient Roman engineers who helped turn Rome into an enduring metropolis, to its ...

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Name: Fred Brooks

Age: 73

Occupation/background: Landscape architect, semi-retired. I am a provincially licenced landscape architect (for 40 years).

Why are you running for public office?

We cant change the past, but there is now an opportunity to create new hope for Nanaimo. As a landscape architect with experience in urban design matters, my role on council will be to work with fellow councillors, senior staff and various city groups to give shape and life to changes that will be good for us all. I will bring my knowledge and daily professional observations to dramatically re-image our city to its greatest advantage for tourism, grow business, attract new residents, and maximize every citizens involvement with positive daily experiences in Nanaimo.

What three priorities are important to you and how do you plan to tackle these issues, if elected?

Yield maximum social and material benefits for the taxes we pay; transparency on civic and financial matters; responsible subdivision development.

How do you plan to manage taxes and spending?

End questionable or unnecessary studies or projects; hold the line on municipal wages; end signing bonuses and unwarranted severance payments, among others.

What do you think it takes to lead Nanaimo?

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The Department of Landscape Architecture at Mississippi State University has pledged to "foster the will and ability to plan, design, build, and manage regenerative communities" through our mission statement. We believe that the professions of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Contracting should strive to connect art, culture, and the environment to provide society with places that people love and that are cognizant of a holistic, ecological model of design. Our students explore subjects such as the design process, storm water design, energy flow, native landscapes and plant materials, green infrastructure, sustainability, community planning, and regional planning.

Most Mississippians recognize Eudora Welty as one of the state's most revered authors, but not very many know that she was an avid gardener. Faculty in the Department are assisting with planning for the long-term management of the Welty landscape.

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It was a cold, dark night in Leland as community members gathered at the Mississippi State University Delta Research and Extension Center to talk with students about their community development ideas.

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