Browsing by Author "Hill, David"

As a species we humans dominate the lands in which we live. Because of this we have started to lose respect for other species and often quickly dismiss them. This thesis looks to address this issue and change the way in ...

Cemeteries can offer tremendous value as a landscape that bonds us to our humanity. Yet, the once popular American cemetery has become alienated from the living. These sacred landscapes have become obscure spaces embedded ...

The simple idea of nighttime design became a catalyst for what would be a year long investigation into how our perception, both spatially and experientially, is shaped by the effects and implementation of lighting. The ...

The 21st century has created a feral condition in many small towns in Alabama. This feral condition has resulted in social, ecological, and spatial changes that require new forms of civic spaces, and understanding.

The idea of formlessness in landscape architecture is defined as dynamic processes, such as wind blowing and plant growth. These are not things you associate with a given form, but a fluid and dynamic process. Specifically, ...

According to Robert Ulrich, as pointed out by Betsy Severtsen in her article about healing gardens, our world’s physical environment is being more widely accepted as a direct influence on a person’s overall health -- ...

Landscape architects can use new radicalisms to move away from the ingrained and the habitual. There is an opportunity to push the boundaries of aesthetics and abandon inefficient design norms that are fixed in the realm ...

Landscape maintenance plays a vital role in how designed landscapes perform over time. The current approach is to suppress landscapes by repeating the same techniques through the seasons and years. The dynamic living ...

Our cities are made up of many landscape typologies. As human social structure has evolved over time, shared values have taken physical form in the urban condition. Urban marginalized space is formed by the backs of buildings ...

Ecosystems are complex, dynamic, and unpredictable to change, evolve, and behave. Change is a normal part of life, and through adaptive and flexible design, we can respond to this complexity. Dynamic ecosystem and novel ...