Fionn ByrneUniversity of British Columbia | UBC · School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Fionn Byrne
Master of Landscape Architecture
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Introduction
The persistent interest in Byrne’s work is to better understand the ethical obligations of the design fields. He contends that all design decisions involve value judgements, that any acts of building in the world are political, and that question of social justice must always be raised when we seek to modify our physical environments.
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This paper presents the work of an advanced graduate level studio from the University of British Columbia that engaged disciplinary history as a site of research through speculative design. Fourteen students working in teams of two explored the relationships between physical form and social function in canonical works of building and landscape arch...
As monuments to once revered figures receive increasing public criticism for their celebration of problematic histories, a new type of monument is emerging in our time. As its name indicates, a dialogic counter-monument is a designed response to an existing monument that challenges the monument’s connection to place and expands and recontextualizes...
Venetian elite of the sixteenth century invested their wealth in villas on the mainland terraferma. A villa is an agricultural unit that combines architecture, landscape, and gardens. Their construction had a significant impact on the environment of the terraferma, converting unproductive and unhealthy sites into profitable and pleasurable retreats...
This paper documents the United States military’s use of landscape as an active warfighting tool during Operation Enduring Freedom. A selection of declassified projects that outline plans for tree plantings, which range in scale and design intensity from individual tree replacement to urban park improvements and large-scale reforestation efforts, d...
This paper presents a critical study of the plant species listed by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) award-winning student projects in the general design category from 2005 until 2020. Primary data analysis generated a cumulative plant palette of 965 species by recording each written or annotated incidence of a species across all...
Accepting that differences in environment correspond to differences in human health, we understand that landscape architects, through the design and improvement of spaces of nature, act to positively shape physical and mental states. Indeed, it is critical to the profession of landscape architecture to make a strong assertion that how nature is des...
The form, material, and experience of space are both produced by and in turn, produce culture. Thus, while a design may seek to control the engagement of an object with the world, the effect of an engineered object on culture is often unintentional.
Visible from space, the Athabasca bituminous sands region is at a scale equal to or greater than a...
