book review
The mission of the LAE Foundation is to enhance the dialogue in landscape architecture on a European level by publishing a triennial yearbook. On the sixth edition I wrote a review for the Journbal of Landscape Architecture. This edition presents sixty-three contemporary landscape architectural projects that the jury (Jandirk Hoekstra, Luka Javornik, Varpu Mikola, Catarina Reposo and Daia Stutz) selected out of two hundred entries. But unlike traditional yearbooks the book does not place the projects in the limelight, but uses them to illustrate the themes and topics that the jury discovered as relevant and contemporary. The beauty of a physical book such as this is that it allows for the careful unfolding and conveying of a conceptual level that digital media never can.
The title of the sixth edition is Second Glance. As a title this is well-chosen and thought-provoking. Landscapes are essentially complex, layered and ever-changing. It happens to all of us at one point or another: you walk through a park and think ‘OK, this is really pleasant’, and then leave and kind of forget about it. And when you visit, maybe by accident, for a second time, things have grown, the light is different, you walk from a different direction, you see it from a totally different angle and you recognize a deeper meaning. There is more to it than what you assumed the first time. Second Glance.
In Journal of Landscape Architecture Volume 19 Issue 1 2024. pp. 85-86. https//doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2024.2408916