FAILING UP

A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT’S GUIDE TO SH*TSCAPES AND HOW TO MAKE THEM BETTER.

TEXT BY VLADIMIR GUCULAK AND PAUL BOUREL

IN AN AGE OF glossy architectural visualizations and slick photography, today’s media is saturated with images of projects mummified in their ideal, untouched, and unused state. Every design and technical publication on landscape architecture tries to teach us how to do things based on best practices. Rarely do we see a landscape project that has been in use for five or even 10 years. To counterbalance this status quo, it is time to review and scrutinize the sh*tscapes: typical mistakes in the design of our public realm. Our book, Sh*tscapes: 100 Mistakes in Landscape Architecture (JOVIS, 2024), is a compendium of failures made in the design, construction, or maintenance processes of urban landscapes. Looking at these unsuccessful examples, we propose simple and practical solutions aimed at preventing common mistakes, predicting…

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Landscape Architecture (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2024

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