Between Research and Design: The Evolution of the Journal of Landscape Architecture

This article explores the evolution of the Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA). We identify the ambitions that led to the journal’s establishment and the ways in which a desire to bridge theory and practice led to a particular editorial programme rooted in research articles, design criticism, and visual methods specific to landscape architecture. Although JoLA is a peer-reviewed platform for landscape architecture, its considerations nevertheless overlap with related disciplines, revealing the existence of a recognition for an expanded field of landscape architecture. The journal acknowledges the diversity of the discipline; both as a matter of professional practice and academic research. This tension between defining the theories, practices, and methods that constitute a discipline, and the diversity that gives it richness and enables innovation, continues to inform the conception and development of the journal and presents particular challenges to its editorial aspirations

Beyond mere illustration. Editorial

Editoriale per il numero 1/2021 della rivista JoLA-Journal of Landscape Architectur

Earthwork: a garden of reversals

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Between Research and Design: The Evolution of the Journal of Landscape Architecture

This article explores the evolution of the Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA). We identify the ambitions that led to the journal’s establishment and the ways in which a desire to bridge theory and practice led to a particular editorial programme rooted in research articles, design criticism, and visual methods specific to landscape architecture. Although JoLA is a peer-reviewed platform for landscape architecture, its considerations nevertheless overlap with related disciplines, revealing the existence of a recognition for an expanded field of landscape architecture. The journal acknowledges the diversity of the discipline; both as a matter of professional practice and academic research. This tension between defining the theories, practices, and methods that constitute a discipline, and the diversity that gives it richness and enables innovation, continues to inform the conception and development of the journal and presents particular challenges to its editorial aspirations

Water landscapes. Editorial

Editoriale per il numero 2/2013 della rivista «JoLA-Journal of Landscape Architecture», un numero tematico dedicato a "Water landscapes". Abstract: " Architects, urban designers, and landscape architects are more creatively imagining the landscape and the city in relation to water. Projects that reunite engineered and natural processes and strengthen existing logics of sites are becoming the base for new regional and urban forms. In these innovative projects, soft engineering often complements hard engineering as a way to work with the forces of nature to reduce or mitigate the likely impacts of natural disasters, while the revised development of cities is guided by new interplays of landscape, infrastructure and urbanization.

30 years back

Il numero 3/2015 della rivista «JoLA-Journal of Landscape Architecture» è un numero tematico intitolato “30 years back” ed è dedicato ad una discussione sull'evoluzione dell'architettura del paesaggio negli ultimi 30 anni. Gli editors della rivista sono: Bruno Notteboom, Jörg Rekittke (Articles section), Noël van Dooren (Under the Sky section), Kamni Gill (Thinking Eye section), Bianca Maria Rinaldi (Reviews section). L'editoriale di questo numero della rivista è stato scritto da Bruno Notteboom e Noël van Dooren

Water landscapes

Intitolato "Water landscapes", il numero 2-2013 (autumn 2013) della rivista «JoLA-Journal of Landscape Architecture» è un numero tematico dedicato alla relazione tra gestione innovativa delle risorse idriche e progetto urbano e di architettura del paesaggio. Dall'editoriale: "As urbanization and modernizations processes - including mineral extraction processes, building on agricultural lands, de-urbanization, and massive urbanization - continue to transform territories across the globe, water is unavoidably and inevitably an element of both connection and contestation ... Architects, urban designers, and landscape architects are more creatively imagining the landscape and the city in relation to water. Projects that reunite engineered and natural processes and strengthen existing logics of sites are becoming the base for new regional and urban forms. In these innovative projects, soft engineering often complements hard engineering as a way to work with the forces of nature to reduce or mitigate the likely impacts of natural disasters.

Landscape architecture in an expanded field

Editoriale per il numero 1/2013 (Spring 2013) della rivista «JoLA-Journal of Landscape Architecture». Abstract: "In the contemporary world of landscape architecture, it is possible to recognize the arrival of an "expanded field" and the collapse of fixed disciplinary boundaries. The cultural space of landscape architecture has always been a complex field that encompasses different disciplines. More recently, however, this has taken both more diverse and specific forms and modes arising from socio-economic, environmental and technical evolutions.

Disaster and its aftermath

Il numero 1/2015 della rivista «JoLA-Journal of Landscape Architecture» è intitolato “Disaster and its aftermath” ed è dedicato al ruolo del progetto di paesaggio nelle strategie di prevenzione, mitigazione e gestione di rischi naturali