Our Chicago Biennial installation with Samuel Levi Jones and Sam Van Aken titled, “Making A Garden of Strange Fruit,” was featured in the New York Times.

A recent article by Kristina Rapacki for the Architectural Review in London features our installation for CAB5: This is a Rehearsal with Samuel Levi Jones and Sam Van Aken.

LAA Office co-founder Daniel Luis Martinez was recently invited by The Nation to review a new biography of designer, inventor and theorist Buckminster Fuller by author Alec Nevala-Lee. The book assesses Fuller’s complicated legacy and influence on contemporary society.

This recent, interactive article published by Metropolis Magazine highlights mid-size American cities at the forefront of urban innovation, including Columbus, Indiana. Our 6th Street Arts Alley project is featured as a unique strategy for amplifying the downtown area.

Landscape Architecture Magazine, the official magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), featured Heritage Park in its May 2022 issue. Read the excellent article, “The Art of Margins,” by Timothy A. Schuler.

An essay published by Drawing Matter about our process for the Learning Patterns project, which translated archival research into original artworks: “The diagrams instill in the viewer a hypnotic cadence; as if one had been offered a glimpse of the building’s surprising cellular structure through a microscope. It is difficult to pinpoint a precedent that produces a similar effect. As a pattern language based on repetition, they imply a woven matrix-like one of Annie Albers’ great tapestries, and they share the improvisational character of Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie.”

A recent article by Matt Hickman for the Architect’s Newspaper featured Heritage Park in Salem, Indiana.

An interview with Katherine Guimapang of Archinect: “Moving to the Midwest and working in the context of a small, American city was an eye-opener for us [...] We find that each one has its own variation of urbanism and culture that can often become fragmented by a lack of financial investment or design thinking.”

An editorial for Columbus Magazine (published by the Republic Newspaper), written by local legend Glenda Winders with photography by Angela Jackson.

LAA Office was interviewed by Ian Carstens for Glass Breakfast: an ongoing, online archive project serving as an alternative space for the appreciation and conversation of art.

An article by Evin V. Mahoney for Dwell Magazine invites readers to visit Columbus, Indiana for its biennial celebration of art and design known as Exhibit Columbus. The article features many of the 2019 participants, including LAA Office co-founder Daniel Luis Martinez.

Published in the second volume of Vorkurs, the publication for the University of Florida’s Graduate School of Architecture, this essay by LAA Office co-founder Daniel Luis Martinez discusses the persistence of landscape conditions over centuries in lower Manhattan’s Canal Street corridor.

An essay interpreting the concept of wilderness in the North American context published in Volume 8 of San Rocco (Milan): “While the scale of the West has always inspired awe, our path toward civilization would eventually forge a paradox. Two views – one of passive reciprocity and the other of active domination – historically prevailed, creating a rift in our domestic identity. It would be another century before architecture would make a serious attempt at translating this tension into built form.”

An essay about the architectural implications of Phil Spector’s famous audio recording techniques published in the “Trace” issue of Mas Context (Chicago): “The name ‘Wall of Sound’ was always intended as an architectural metaphor, though it’s really not as straightforward as it seems. The simplified interpretation is that a wall is built in a way that embodies structural integrity, as with masonry, where the repeated pattern and placement of the individual components form a compounded rigidity … The common analogy for Spector’s work is that through the methodic layering of identically played parts he achieves a similar kind of structural integrity … Yet Spector’s walls simply do not work this way.”

A short essay about the concept of memory in Jorge Luis Borges’ short story “Funes: El Memorioso” published by Engawa Magazine (Barcelona): “Time becomes the endless unfolding of specific details. Funes’s memory, limitless in its depth and insatiable in its consumption of events, cannot allow for ordinary knowledge.”