Weekly Architecture Fix, Vol. 6 | Landscape Architecture
Denver Architecture Foundation Resources:
- A short and sweet DAF podcast about Old Cheesman Park.
- Teach your kids how to draw a plan, a section and an elevation with this activity they are sure to love: Man’s Best Friend Needs a House.
- Audio Tours teaser: Perfect timing for a good little read on Civic Center Park.
- Ongoing: Take in the stunning photographs from our 2019 Y/OUR Denver Photo Exhibit, in partnership with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Read the accompanying Denver Post article by Ray Rinaldi – “One of Denver’s best photo exhibitions right now is totally free — and you can see it in your PJs” and share/discuss with friends and family!
Feature: Landscape Architecture – Resources from the world wide web
“The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it.” – Frederick Law Olmsted
Watch…
The films below are free via Kanopy.com.
- Frederick Law Olmsted – Designing America
- Isamu Noguchi: A Japanese American Artist and Landscape Architect
- 10 Parks that Changed America
- Figure in a Landscape: A Conversation with J.B. Jackson
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Listen…
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Read…
- Design With Nature by Ian L. McHarg
- The Death and Life of Great American Cites by Jane Jacobs
- Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
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For Young Readers…
- The American Society of Landscape Architects’ Discover Landscape Architecture Activity Book for Kids
Community Resources
- In addition to April being World Landscape Architecture Month, it’s also National Poetry Month and National Jazz Appreciation Month. Below are selections to celebrate each:
- Watch Colorado Experience: Denver Mountain Parks by Rocky Mountain PBS.
- Learn more about Colorado’s own Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre.
- Compliments of The Denver Post, enjoy “Quarantine jazz: What we’re listening to while Denver jazz clubs are shut down”.
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