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Landscape Architecture Podcast

by Michael Todoran

Mission Statement:Our mission is to explore the hidden stories, innovations, and ideas that shape the landscapes around us. Through in-depth conversations with designers, planners, and visionaries, we delve into the art, science, and impact of landscape architecture. Each episode seeks to uncover how the spaces we design reflect our values, influence our lives, and transform our world.With curiosity and nuance, we aim to make the invisible elements of landscape architecture visible—connecting listeners to the environments they move through every day and fostering a deeper appreciation for the intersection of nature, design, and human experience.

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Episodes

  1. Hadiza & Aaron Hinish

    https://www.hinishdc.com/ What does it mean to approach landscape design as a commissioned art? In this episode of The Landscape Architecture Podcast, Michael talks with Hadiza and Aaron Hinish, about the ideas and experiences that have shaped their work. They discuss making the most of a…

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  2. Darren Baldwin 2

    In this follow-up conversation, Michael Todoran sits down again with Darren Baldwin, President of Pikus 3D https://pikus3d.com/, to go deeper into how 3D-printed concrete is changing the way landscape architects design, collaborate, and solve problems. The conversation moves beyond the initial...

  3. Torey Carter-Conneen ASLA CEO

    https://www.hapsagency.com/ PR for landscape architects Torey Carter-Conneen has served as Chief Executive Officer of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) since 2020, leading the 16,000-member organization through a period of significant change for both the association and the...

  4. Wendy Proud

    https://www.landfx.com In this episode, Michael sits down with Wendy Proud, founder of Kinship League, to discuss why landscape maintenance is one of the most overlooked forces shaping the life of a landscape. Wendy shares how better crew education, smarter timing, and a deeper respect for how...

  5. Darren Baldwin

    https://hapsagency.com/ In this episode, Michael sits down with Darren Baldwin, President of Pikus 3D, to discuss how additive manufacturing is redefining architecture, fabrication, and the creative process itself. From lightweight structural design to the artistry of form, Darren shares how…

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  6. Darren Baldwin

    https://hapsagency.com/ In this episode, Michael sits down with Darren Baldwin, President of Pikus 3D, to discuss how additive manufacturing is redefining architecture, fabrication, and the creative process itself. From lightweight structural design to the artistry of form, Darren shares how…

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  7. Kaitlin Hannig - Real Estate for the disillusioned

    https://www.larchitect.org/ https://www.instagram.com/realtorkaitlin What Architects Can Learn from a Real Estate Agent's Viral Social Media Strategy In this episode of The Landscape Architecture Podcast, host Michael Todoran interviews Salt Lake City real estate agent and Instagram personality...

  8. Elisa Read Pappaterra

    https://www.studiopappaterra.com/ Today's episode feels especially timely with a heavy heart. As fires in the Palisades area of Los Angeles continue to devastate communities and landscapes, we are reminded of the growing urgency to design with resilience and sustainability at the forefront. Our...

  9. Shawn Maestretti

    https://www.larchitect.org/ https://hapsagency.com/ Shawn Maestretti's work at Studio Petrichor https://studio-petrichor.com/ resonates deeply with the metaphor of the first rain experience that stirs something intrinsic in humans. The smell of the first rain, defined as "petrichor," evokes a…

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  10. Robert Andrade 3

    https://www.larchitect.org/ https://www.bciburke.com/ Interested in typologies of the built environment - the artist and landscape designer explores the values and meaning embedded in structures and symbols using industrial materials and construction methods evocative of the urban space along…

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  11. Cliff Garten

    this episode sponsored by: https://www.bciburke.com/ Cliff Garten Cliff Garten is an internationally recognized sculptor and founder of Cliff Garten Studio in Venice, California. By connecting people to places and infrastructure through sculptural material, social history and ecology, Garten's…

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  12. SEL West Coast Artists

    Sponsored by: https://www.bciburke.com/ SEL .nft https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/68753288684922086608564403316877929801832631715139355806789553097587046744065 https://www.punkrockzen.com/ Marcel Blanco known by the street name SEL, is a Los Angeles...

  13. Sarah Lisiecki

    this episode sponsored by: https://www.bciburke.com/ Sarah Lisiecki combines a passion for play, the outdoors and movement with more than ten years in the play industry and hundreds of presentations given on topics from Inclusive Design, Musical Play and Trends in Play at Parks and Recreation...

  14. Billy Krimmel

    This episode is sponsored by https://www.bciburke.com/ BILLY KRIMMEL FOUNDER, ECOLOGIST Billy completed his PhD in Ecology at UC Davis where he focused his research on native plant-insect interactions. Billy also holds a Bachelor of Science from Brown University and serves on the board of…

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  15. Diane Lipovsky and Stacy Passmore

    Superbloom is an award-winning landscape architecture firm located in Denver, CO. Our practice of transformative design was founded on a commitment to crafting meaningful connections between people and the land.

  16. Thomas Balsley

    Thomas Balsley is a renowned designer whose New York City-based practice is best known for its fusion of landscape and urbanism in public parks, waterfronts, and plazas throughout the US and abroad. For over 35 years, Tom's work has reshaped social and cultural spaces with robust sustainable...

  17. Signe Nielsen

    Signe is a Founding Principal of MNLA and has been practicing as a landscape architect and urban designer in New York since 1978. Her body of work has renewed the environmental integrity and transformed the quality of spaces for those who live, work, and play in the urban realm. A Fellow of the...

  18. Alan Avendano Gutierrez

    Landscape Designer - Former Professional Boxer

  19. Lys Divine Ndemeye | BA, MLA | Landscape Designer

    https://www.remeshadesign.com/designunmuted

  20. Gilles Clement

    French gardener, garden designer, botanist, entomologist and writer Manifestos discussed during the interview (English translation): The Third Landscape http://www.gillesclement.com/cat-tierspaysage-tit-le-Tiers-Paysage The Planetary Garden...

  21. Catherine Mosbach

    http://www.mosbach.fr Catherine Mosbach is the founder of Paris-based design firm mosbach paysagiste, which she established in 1987, as well as the magazine Pages Paysages, which she co-founded with Marc Claramunt, Pascale Jacotot and Vincent Tricaud. Catherine is renowned for socially and...

  22. Julian Raxworthy

    As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas...

  23. Yara Falakha, John-Bingham Hall, and Alexandra Lacroix

    https://www.larchitect.org/ Today's conversation is centered around a post-industrial site on the north-eastern edge of Paris, known as Chapelle Charbon, that is soon to become a new public park for the city of Paris. As a former rail depot, the 6.5 hectare (or 16 acre) site will be developed in...

  24. Thierry Kandjee & Sebastien Penfornis

    Thierry KANDJEE is a landscape architect, in charge of taktyk Brussels and Chair of Landscape in the Architecture Faculty La Cambre Horta. His practice based research investigated how to design landscape skeletons as a model of/for robust landscapes. Sébastien PENFORNIS is an architect and urban...

  25. Claire Latané

    https://islandpress.org/books/schools-heal https://www.larchitect.org/ What would a school look like if it was designed with mental health in mind? Too many public schools look and feel like prisons, designed out of fear of vandalism and truancy. But we know that nurturing environments are better...

  26. Annie 'Guns' Bergelin

    Landscape Architect Hikes Appalachian Trail

  27. Paul and Jack Haden

    This is a special episode. This particular episode with Paul & Jack Haden from C2 Collaborative represents the evolution of the podcast. Not only do we have a wonderful conversation with this Father / Son duo on site. But after the podcast we put microphones on both of them and filmed them…

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  28. Nick Straabe and Jason Wan

    https://www.hunterindustries.com/ Nick Straabe is a Licensed Landscape Architect currently focused on the design, specification, sales, implementation and management of low voltage lighting and irrigation systems for Hunter Industries. Jason Wan establishes Maintains and Builds relationships with...

  29. Robert Andrade 2

    Robert Andrade explores the values and meaning embedded in materials symbols and structures of the built environment by employing the use of industrial materials and construction methods evocative of urban spaces and various landscape typologies. Andrade is also interested in how humans intervene...

  30. Shawn Maestretti

    Studio Petrichor aims to mitigate the effects of climate change and strengthen your relationship to the landscape through thoughtful design, ethical practices, and nature-based solutions.

  31. Nahal Sohbati and Eric Arneson

    Topo-phyla (Tow-Poe-Fahy-luh ) is an analysis and process driven landscape design firm serving Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and the Bay Area. With an emphasis on sense of place and site-specific design, Topophyla brings a relevant and unique approach to every project.

  32. Sandra Vlock

    As an architect of contemporary architectural design and now working as an artist, my focus is to engage people in a shared experience; capturing an authentic sense of place, context and narrative. I view the integration of Fine Art & Architectural Elements offered through my newest venture…

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  33. Dr. Ghazal Jafari, Ana María Durán Calisto, and Khensani De Klerk

    CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SPATIAL PRACTICE LABASH 2021 - SUNDAY, APRIL 11th Tonight's session will begin with three, 10-minute presentations from our panelists: the first by, Dr. Ghazal Jafari, founding director of OPEN SYSTEMS / Landscape Infrastructure Lab, and currently an Assistant Professor…

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  34. Billy Fleming

    Wilks Family Director, Ian L. McHarg Center Billy Fleming is the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center in the Weitzman School of Design, a senior fellow with Data for Progress, and co-director of the "climate + community project." His fellowship with Data for Progress has focused on…

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  35. Julie Taylor

    https://taylor-pr.com/ Taylor & Company is the PR firm with the creativity, quality, expertise, and tenacity to achieve effective and impressive results for clients in architecture, design, and furniture.

  36. Joey Santore

    https://www.larchitect.org/ A Low-Brow, Crass Approach to Plant Ecology & Evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian. Amidst mild profanity and general irreverence, we examine plant life (the base of Earth's food chain) and the nature of the rocks and soil they grow on, as well as…

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  37. Antoine Kunsch, Elisa Read Pappaterra, Clark Stevens

    https://defensiblespace.org/ To increase wildfire resilience and maintain habitat quality in the Southern California Wildland Urban interface (WUI)

  38. Proactive Practice - Live Panel Recording

    Larchitect Panel 002 discusses strategies, shared experiences, successes, and challenges of approaching design, activism , and advocacy from a proactive approach. VIDEO >> https://youtu.be/l0WgPGmCmUQ PANELISTS SARA ABED Executive Director- National Association of Minority Landscape Architects...

  39. David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet

    The Second Studio is an explicit podcast about design, architecture, and the everyday. Hosted by Architects David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, it features different creative professionals in unscripted and long-format interviews with thoughtful takes and personal discussions. Honesty and humor…

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  40. James A. Lord and Roderick Wyllie

    http://www.sdisf.com/book Surfacedesign, Inc. is a landscape architecture and urban design firm based in San Francisco, California. This award-winning practice focuses on creating dynamic parks, plazas, waterfronts, civic landscapes, and private gardens. James A. Lord, Roderick Wyllie, and Geoff…

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  41. Helen Li and Ava Cheng

    https://www.freshoffthevote.com/ FRESH OFF THE VOTE is a grassroots podcast on a mission to make politics fun. Our team is 100% self identified Asian American Pacific Islander youth ready to make waves for the November 2020 election. We created the podcast as a home for conversations on the...

  42. Michael Todoran

    This episode is a lecture I (Michael Todoran) gave at Cal Poly Pomona's Department of Landscape Architecture on January 31st, 2017. I have been debating whether or not I should release this lecture for 3 years now because of the vulnerability in this lecture. I talk about sobriety, PTSD, and…

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  43. Kofi Boone (Prequel)

    This episode features Kofi Boone, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and NC State University College of Design. He focuses on the changing nature of communities and developing tools for enhanced community engagement and design. This episode was researched, produced…

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  44. Janelle Brookes and Ethan Perrotte

    POC Architecture General Information Who we are & our mission (all our main talking points) We are a couple of black architecture students from Canada. We created this page to showcase architecture projects done by people of colour. During the course of our education, we noticed a lack of...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Mission Statement:Our mission is to explore the hidden stories, innovations, and ideas that shape the landscapes around us. Through in-depth conversations with designers, planners, and visionaries, we delve into the art, science, and impact of landscape architecture. Each episode seeks to uncover how the spaces we design reflect our values, influence our lives, and transform our world.With curiosity and nuance, we aim to make the invisible elements of landscape architecture visible—connecting listeners to the environments they move through every day and fostering a deeper appreciation for the intersection of nature, design, and human experience.

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Michael Todoran

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