LA+ Design

In this issue:
• Engineer and physicist Adrian Bejan outlines his constructal theory, which predicts natural design and its evolution in engineering, scientific, and social systems.
• Design researchers Craig Bremner + Paul Rodgers take us through an A–Z of design ecology.
• Architects Lizzie Yarina + Claudia Bode open our eyes to new ways of seeing things through subject-object relations.
• Jenni Zell explores life as a woman landscape architect through a Kafkaesque lens.
• Daniel Pittman interviews MoMA’s curator of architecture and design, Paola Antonelli.
• Architect David Salomon explores methods of using data as both fact and fiction.
• Christopher Marcinkoski interviews Anthony Dunne + Fiona Raby (Dunne + Raby) to discuss how their practice continuously redefines the role of design in society.
• Thomas Oles challenges stereotypes of landscape architecture’s professional identity.
• Richard Weller discusses the terrarium as the ultimate design experiment.
• Dane Carlson goes deep into the culture of Nepal’s hinterlands to explore new modes and geographies for landscape architecture beyond the first world.
• Through LA’s signage, anthropologist Keith Murphy shows how different groups of people interact with and give meaning to the landscapes they inhabit.
• Interviewed by Colin Curley, architect Andrés Jaque (Office for Political Innovation) discusses the role of technology and agency of architecture in society today.
• Game designer Colleen Macklin shows how public space can be redefined and subverted through the agency of play.
• Javier Arpa interviews urban design guru Winy Maas (MVRDV, The Why Factory) to discuss his views on the future of design and design education.
• Experimental psychologist Thomas Jacobsen describes current neurological research into the subjectivity of beauty.
• Landscape architect James Corner talks about the evolution of the profession of landscape architecture in a wide-ranging interview.

ISBN: 978-1-943532-19-3
Binding: Softbound
Pages: 120pp
Publication Date: Fall 2019
Size: 8.75” x 10.5” Portrait
World Rights: Available