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Landscape Architecture Podcast

Michael Todoran 99 episodes Latest Jun 1, 2026

The Landscape Architecture Podcast explores the hidden stories, innovations, and ideas that shape the landscapes around us. Through in-depth conversations with designers, planners, and visionaries, it delves into the art, science, and impact of landscape architecture. Each episode aims to uncover how designed spaces reflect our values, influence our lives, and transform our world. The podcast seeks to make the invisible elements of landscape architecture visible, fostering a deeper appreciation for the intersection of nature, design, and human experience.

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Wendy Proud Jun 1, 2026 55:46 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 plants naturally grow can protect design intent long after installation. From overplanting and shallow ir

Darren Baldwin Oct 6, 2025 57:38 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 Pikus 3D is helping architects and landscape architects break free from traditional constraints — turning

Darren Baldwin Oct 5, 2025 57:38 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 Pikus 3D is helping architects and landscape architects break free from traditional constraints — turning

Kaitlin Hannig - Real Estate for the disillusioned Apr 4, 2025 58:06 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 Kaitlin Hannig, whose darkly funny "asshole home tours" have gained a massive following by breaking all

Elisa Read Pappaterra Jan 13, 2025 51:21 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 guest today is Elisa Read Pappaterra, a landscape architect and founder of studio pappaterra. Elisa is

Shawn Maestretti Sep 23, 2024 19:47 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 sense of renewal, calm, and connection to nature. This sensory reaction is rooted in our survival insti

Robert Andrade 3 Apr 29, 2024 56:21 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 with various landscapes. His artwork examines the relationship between humanity and the natural world, r

Cliff Garten Nov 20, 2023 41:58 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 work locates the latent potential in every public place and situation to become more than the specific fu

SEL West Coast Artists Aug 28, 2023 42:56 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 based, multifaceted artist best recognized by his paintings and murals that evoke emotion and thought t

Sarah Lisiecki Jul 5, 2023 01:07:23 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 Conferences, District Meetings, Landscape Architect Firms and Representative Trainings. She studied Commun

Billy Krimmel May 14, 2023 31:04 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 directors for the California Native Grasslands Association. Billy founded https://www.miridae.com/ with the

Diane Lipovsky and Stacy Passmore Apr 18, 2023 47:38 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.

Thomas Balsley Jan 22, 2023 01:15:50 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 landscapes that teem with public life. In New York City alone, he has completed more than 100 parks and pla

Signe Nielsen Oct 23, 2022 01:13:50 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 ASLA, she is the recipient of more than 100 national and local design awards for public open space proje

Alan Avendano Gutierrez Aug 29, 2022 01:03:51 Landscape Designer - Former Professional Boxer

Lys Divine Ndemeye | BA, MLA | Landscape Designer Feb 11, 2022 01:13:58 https://www.remeshadesign.com/designunmuted

Gilles Clement Nov 21, 2021 01:05:10 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 http://www.gillesclement.com/cat-jardinplanetaire-tit-Le-Jardin-Planetaire The Garden in Motion http://www.gillesclement.com/cat-mouvement-tit-Le-Jardin-en-

Catherine Mosbach Nov 7, 2021 50:19 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 environmentally responsible work that attests to temporality and continuing change, referring those who inte

Julian Raxworthy Oct 24, 2021 01:14:36 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 gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy ca

Yara Falakha, John-Bingham Hall, and Alexandra Lacroix Oct 10, 2021 01:50:33 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 several phases over the next decade. As part of this process, the design firm Taktyk was commissioned t

Thierry Kandjee & Sebastien Penfornis Sep 26, 2021 43:01 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 designer in charge of taktyk Paris office. He also teaches at the ENSAB, Rennes. His practice based res

Claire Latané Sep 12, 2021 01:20:31 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 for learning. Research consistently shows that access to nature, big classroom windows, and open camp

Annie 'Guns' Bergelin Aug 30, 2021 01:42:48 Landscape Architect Hikes Appalachian Trail

Paul and Jack Haden Jul 26, 2021 38:21 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 talking amongst themselves throughout one of the most cutting-edge mixed-use urban communities in the country

Nick Straabe and Jason Wan Jul 12, 2021 58:33 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 Landscape Architects for Hunter Industries.

Robert Andrade 2 Jun 13, 2021 51:22 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 in the natural world, imposing order and artifice on raw wild life. He works in many different mediums

Shawn Maestretti May 30, 2021 23:16 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.

Nahal Sohbati and Eric Arneson May 14, 2021 01:06:24 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.

Sandra Vlock May 3, 2021 01:39:46 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, Studio Vlock, as a natural evolution of that vision; one that enables me to design pieces that inspire memo

Dr. Ghazal Jafari, Ana María Durán Calisto, and Khensani De Klerk Apr 18, 2021 01:04:27 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 of Landscape Architecture at University of Virginia; next, a presentation from Khensani de Klerk, an ar

Billy Fleming Apr 3, 2021 41:41 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 the built environment impacts of climate change, and resulted most prominently in the publication of l

Julie Taylor Mar 15, 2021 01:00:37 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.

Joey Santore Mar 3, 2021 01:42:45 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 the evolutionary adaptations that enable them to do what they do. The goal of "Crime Pays But Botany Does

Antoine Kunsch, Elisa Read Pappaterra, Clark Stevens Feb 8, 2021 57:12 https://defensiblespace.org/ To increase wildfire resilience and maintain habitat quality in the Southern California Wildland Urban interface (WUI)

Proactive Practice - Live Panel Recording Jan 20, 2021 01:22:47 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 501(c)(3) https://www.nationalamla.org/ VIVIANA FRANCO Founder And Executive Director Of

David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet Dec 30, 2020 01:25:50 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 are used to cover a wide array of subjects.

James A. Lord and Roderick Wyllie Oct 24, 2020 37:15 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 di Girolamo, in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of landscape architects, urban designers, a

Helen Li and Ava Cheng Oct 11, 2020 18:18 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 different key issues of the election and to discuss voter engagement strategies for AAPIs by AAPIs.

Michael Todoran Oct 7, 2020 51:44 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 major failures in my life. I hope you find this episode both insightful and entertaining.

Kofi Boone (Prequel) Aug 10, 2020 45:43 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, and edited by Joanna Karaman with coordination by Michael Todoran. Special thanks to ASLA for logistica

Janelle Brookes and Ethan Perrotte Jul 27, 2020 21:09 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 architecture projects from people of colour being taught. As a result, this page was created to promote div

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