22 ENVIRONMENT

Published: Fall 2025 

The concept of “environment” is foundational to landscape architecture – as backdrop, as surround, as something to save. The word is so pervasive, and its meaning taken for granted, that it is easy to forget that it is an ever-evolving assemblage of ideas and practices. LA+ ENVIRONMENT features essays that illuminate this evolution, including how changing material conditions give rise to new interpretations of environment, to lesser-known or forgotten “environmentalisms.” This issue also includes four interviews with individuals who engage with environmental issues across different scales of action, providing context for policy successes and insight into the challenges ahead.

Contributors include: Christina Antiporda; Etienne Benson; Holly Jean Buck; Lino Camprubi Bueno; Dipesh Chakrabarty; Jess Conard; Vinita Damodaran; Sonja Dümpelmann; Diana Guo; Maria Ivanova; Rami Kanafani; Laura J. Martin; Chad Montrie; Michael Oppenheimer; Marcus Owens; Melissa S. Ragain; Jip van Besouw; Jessica Varner; and Andrew Witt.

Etienne Benson

Chad Montrie

Jessica Varner

Karen M’Closkey

Melissa S. Ragain

Sonja Dumpelmann

Marcus Owens + Christina Antiporda

Karen M’Closkey

Rami Kanafani

Holly Jean Buck

Karen M’Closkey

Vinita Damodaran

Jip Van Besouw + Lino Camprubi 

Andrew Witt

Diana Guo

Laura J. Martin

“Environments, Environmentalisms, Envirotechniques”

“The Other Silence in Silent Spring”

“In Conversation with Jess Conard”

“In Conversation with Maria Ivanova”

“On the Road with Hebert Bayer” 

“Sounding Extreme Environments”

“Nuclear Weapons and the Unity of The Environment”

“In Conversation with Michael Oppenheimer”

“Spiritualizing the Two Cultures, c. 1978”

“Failure to Build”

“In Conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty”

“Why Environmental History Matters”

“Making the Seascape” 

“Snow Globes: Cyclic Drawings and Cryospheric Panoramas”

“Megafaunas of the Past and Future”

“Beyond Habitat”