The site of Winslow Homer's iconic paintings is the setting for a modern Maine summer house. Photo by Thomas Rainer One of my favorit...

  Gardeners: throw away those glossy coffee table books. Everything you need to learn is in the black and white planting plans of the grea...

It was the garden heard round the world. Beth Chatto’s garden in Essex, England, is perhaps the single most influential garden of the last c...

The first of the Groundbreakers honorees goes to the inheritors of the European formal garden tradition. The family firm of Wirtz Internatio...

I am dedicating a handful of upcoming blogs to highlighting some of the world’s most outstanding planting designers in a series entitled Gr...

For several weeks now, I have been extolling wildness and naturalism as a virtue in the design of landscapes. My claim is that man-made la...

Rising Star Yu Kongjian’s Radical Vision Design firm Turenscape in concert with Peking University Graduate School of Landscape Architect...

Angie Lewin is the artist for the green revolution.  Not since William Morris has an artist combined patterned abstraction with horticultur...

I have always been drawn to abstract expressionism, both artistically and philosophically.  Art critic Harold Rosenburg described the genre ...

Why Rotterdam’s Theater Square Represents a Turning Point for Urban Design Art history rarely recognizes a masterpiece in its time. And n...

"Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Governor David A. Paterson, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senator Daniel L. Squadron today ann...