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The Form Study classes at the Academy pair architecture / urbanism / landscape students with practitioners from outside their discipline in order to venture into uncharted waters of design experience. For eight weeks I had the pleasure of working with Pieke Bergmans, a dutch industrial designer with playful and sharp ideas. In this vormstudie we […]

Rijksbouwmeester Onderzoeklab 01 Day 1 : Today was our first moment on site, exploring the Jaarbeursterrein in the center of Utrecht. Our group of 3 intrepid architects and one landscape architect (me!) was assigned the task of exploring the boundary of the site, to find out more about the site’s edge conditions. A lot to […]

Today I went back to my old place of work, DS Landscape Architects, for a celebratory lunch. Two of my colleagues recently returned from Paris with a two kilo côte de boeuf which provided the foundation of our lunch time feast – fried in butter, of course, and accompanied with a fall mushroom risotto and […]

I recently began coursework at the Academie van Bouwkunst of Amsterdam. Earlier this summer I agonized over the decision of where to go to grad school to pursue landscape architecture at a higher level, or at least to be able to consecrate some time to learning. Here in the Netherlands their is a good choice […]

Concept Debra Solomon. Images and visual research Jacques Abelman. Baby Bakery. Do-it-yourself oven typologies in the park. Outdoor cooking installations for teen agers to make bread, roti, lavash.

I’ll be adding more texts and writing in the coming weeks. I at least wanted to get this up before I run out the door- I’m off to eastern France for a couple of weeks where the internet connection will be a bit more sporadic than downtown Amsterdam… Foodprint at STROOM architectural center Den Haag: […]

Every day I take advantage of the many green spaces Amsterdam has to offer, on a variety of scales. I start on my own balcony with a little of urban gardening tending- pruning the tomatoes, checking on the courgettes, tasting some dill or cutting some thyme for a recipe. Next I run down tree lined […]

“Imagining New Venice” was one of my favorite visualization and rendering projects that I did before going freelance.  The competition called for the development of a parcel of land with quite a heavy program of housing, golf course, and marina. Although not as widely known as say, Dutch polders, these agricultural lands at the mouth […]