Studio Premise
Landscape architects are uniquely equipped to grasp big-picture climate concerns while providing detailed, site-specific climate-adaptive design responses. At the same time, many landscape architectural design practices already possess climate-adaptive potential, but they are not yet assembled and calibrated as a comprehensive scope of services for climate adaptation. Designers can further improve project resilience by reinforcing ecological processes in cities as part of a comprehensive set of adaptive design moves that are both systemic and site specific. By looking at all aspects of design through the lens of climate vulnerability and
'Weaving the Waterfront' in Kingston, NY by MLA candidates '18 Luyao Kong, Hong Gao, and Quianli Feng
*This project won a 2017 ASLA Student General Design Award: https://www.asla.org/2017studentawards/327156.html