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ASLA-2022

Wood Is Good: A Celebration of the Material’s Natural Beauty, Durability & Sustainability

Its grain—undulating and swirling. Its hues—warm and reassuring. Its aroma—nostalgic and earthy. Its texture—firm, smooth, confidence-inspiring, yet somehow also soft and welcoming. Wood captures the beauty of Mother Nature like few other materials can, a remarkable and renewable resource that only She herself could create. Read More >>

ASLA-2022

Cross-Industry Experts Discuss Live: Examining the Different Scales of Resilient Design

Resilience encompasses concerns that are local and concerns that are global. Locally, different environments face unique sets of challenges and vulnerabilities and require us to design solutions according those realities. Zooming out, there are widespread challenges and vulnerabilities that touch society and the planet as a whole. With these frameworks in mind, the question becomes: How do we protect communities and increase their capacity for resilience while remaining in accordance with the broader goals for humanity, society and planetary systems of resilience? Read More >>

ASLA-2022

Xtreme LA Bison Bridge: Emerging Leaders Envision a Landscape Reborn

The creative repurposing of existing infrastructure presents a powerful opportunity for communities and ecosystems. Finding sustainable new life in what is deemed old and underutilized is the resource-conscious way to enhance communities’ health and wellbeing, create equitable access to nature, restore ecological services, and spur economic development. These are the driving motivations behind the Bison Bridge project, the proposed repurposing of the Fred Schwengel Memorial Bridge. Read More >>

ASLA-2022

The Beauty of the Beam: How Theory Transforms Simple Structure Into Elevated Transit Experiences, With Designer Scott Klinker

From the start, Theory has centered around the idea of “the beam,” looking to build out from this humble structural component a collection of streetscape elements that complement one another systematically yet are each uniquely expressive in functional and sculptural impact. But the design evolution of Theory has been a long creative journey of iteration and collaboration between designer Scott Klinker and the Landscape Forms design team. Read More >>

ASLA-2022

Designing a Better Future Together: ASLA 2022 Conference Preview

Our schedules are set, our samples are packed… and we can’t wait to head out west to our industry’s most important annual gathering, the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture! Bringing people together around the theme Designing a Better Future, ASLA 2022 is the largest gathering of landscape architects and allied professionals in the world with more than 6,500 attendees. Read More >>

Strata-Beam

From the Outdoor Office to the Street Café: The Inspiration Behind Backdrop

New from Landscape Forms and designed in collaboration with KEM STUDIO, Backdrop is an innovative system of modular panels and accessories that offers one solution for every site. Adapting and inspiring designers’ creativity, the system elegantly defines outdoor spaces throughout campuses and streetscapes, in residential communities, and at retail and hospitality destinations. Read More >>

Strata-Beam

The Chipman Preserve: A Company’s Roots Become the Community’s Future

The roots of Landscape Forms took hold long before the company’s modern and expansive East Michigan, Midlink, and Meld facilities. They began right off East Main Street, behind a beautiful home, in a small barn on what is now known as the Chipman Preserve. Read More >>

Strata-Beam

Landscape Forms Team Members on What Makes Workplace Excellence

For over 50 years, Landscape Forms has enjoyed a reputation as one of the most gratifying, compassionate and community-oriented workplaces in the manufacturing hub that is Kalamazoo, Michigan. And recently, as the company has experienced extraordinary growth, expanded their facilities, and received international design acclaim, word of this unique workplace culture is spreading nationally. Read More >>

Strata-Beam

Introducing the Air Collection: Escofet’s Iconic Forms Captured in a Whole New “Light”

When you think of Escofet, a few things come to mind—the company’s incredible history, their seminal Mediterranean aesthetic that influences design globally, their mastery and innovation in cast concrete, and the robust and unmistakable presence of the forms they create. One thing that doesn’t immediately come to mind is lightness in weight, an attribute that would seem to run counter to the Barcelona-based design firm's trademark medium. Read More >>

Strata-Beam

Powerful Perspectives: Cross-Industry Experts Discuss Design & Holistic Sustainability

To kick off this year with inspiring and forward-thinking discussion, we brought together a diverse group of design, architecture and planning professionals to engage in one of the most important discussions of our era: What does holistic sustainability mean, and how do we achieve it through design? Read More >>

Strata-Beam

Making New Connections: Designer Jess Sorel on STRATA’s Evolving Exploration of Contrast

Created in collaboration with industrial designer Jess Sorel, STRATA is an innovative family of benches and tables that, for nearly a decade, has defined modern high-profile outdoor spaces. Born out of design and material exploration, innovation, and juxtaposition, STRATA has naturally grown and evolved—and continues to do so—over its celebrated lifetime. Read More >>

Awards-Recap

Let’s Geaux: LABash at LSU in Baton Rouge

Following an understandable cancellation in 2020 and a move to virtual in 2021, LABash 2022 celebrated a much-anticipated return to form for the preeminent student-led landscape architecture conference. The 51st annual event brought together hundreds of leading landscape architecture students and professionals in person at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Read More >>

Awards-Recap

Innovation That Delivers: Landscape Forms Celebrates Its Most Successful Year, Driven by Creating New & Transformative Outdoor Experiences

2021 was a milestone year for Landscape Forms, earning a record 55 product design awards. For Chief Creative Officer, Kirt Martin, these achievements are absolutely cause to celebrate, but they also tell a larger story—a narrative about people, business and design integrity, the power of innovation, and what the future holds for outdoor space. Read More >>

Asha-Chaudhary

Interwoven: On Business & Compassion with Landscape Forms Board Member, Asha Chaudhary

Landscape Forms is welcoming the most recent addition to its Board of Directors, entrepreneur and advocate for women and artisans, Asha Chaudhary. Asha began her career at Jaipur Rugs Indian manufacturing facility, rising through the ranks to eventually launch Jaipur Living based in the US and became President & CEO of the global artisan textile company. Read More >>

LAF 2021 Scholarship Recipients

Doing More Outdoors: Jonathon Kemnitzer of KEM STUDIO on connecting people to nature through design

Based in Kansas City, Missouri, KEM STUDIO is an award-winning design firm that fuses architecture and industrial design, a combination that’s a natural extension of their underlying design philosophy: Better Design, Better Living. The company is all about making design more approachable, livable and present in people’s everyday lives, a perspective that inspired Landscape Forms to collaborate with KEM STUDIO in creating the innovative Upfit adaptive outdoor structure system. Read More >>

LAF 2021 Scholarship Recipients

Designer Rodrigo Torres: Using Simplicity to Bridge the Fun and Functional

As a graduate student at the prestigious Domus Academy in Milan, Italy, Rodrigo Torres discovered a profound connection between his Latin American cultural and modernist influences and the school's approach to design as a marriage of the whimsical with the rational, the fun with the functional. Read More >>

LAF 2021 Scholarship Recipients

Here’s to the Next Generation of Landscape Architects: Landscape Forms Celebrates its 2021 Scholarship Recipients

Since 2007, Landscape Forms has partnered with the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) to offer annual scholarships for distinguished undergraduate landscape architecture students. This year proudly marks the 14th annual Landscape Forms Scholarship in Memory of Peter Lindsay Schaudt, and the introduction of the Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Scholarship. Read More >>

Scott Klinker

The Power of the Remix: How Breaking Boundaries Breeds Innovation for Designer Scott Klinker

Principal of Scott Klinker Design Studio and Designer-in-Residence at the renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 3D Design Program, Scott Klinker explores the intersections and spaces between design, architecture, art and craft. This fluid, interdisciplinary approach, which Klinker describes as “remixing,” has become a hallmark of his work. Read More >>

1% for the Planet Article

Putting Planet and People First: Landscape Forms Joins 1% for the Planet

Believe it or not, only three percent of today’s total philanthropic contributions go toward the environment. We believe our planet needs greater support. As part of our continuing efforts toward sustainability, we’re proud to announce that Landscape Forms has joined 1% for the Planet. Read More >>

Studio 431 Facilities Article

Opportunity Outdoors: Landscape Forms’ Studio 431 on Planning for Outdoor Workspaces

Solutions to help corporate facilities bring elements of their workspaces outdoors are not only relevant in helping planners and managers adapt to the current expectations they face in the wake of COVID-19. Integrating unique outdoor experiences into the workplace will continue to play a key role in elevating a property’s desirability and the quality of life for those who inhabit it. Read More >>

Andrea Cochran, FASLA

Andrea Cochran, FASLA: Designing at the Intersection of Location and Inspiration

When New York City-born Andrea Cochran, FASLA, first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1981, she initially assumed her stay would be brief—a short stint, maybe a couple years taking in a fresh landscape and new inspiration. But little did she know this short stint would eventually blossom into a 40-year career as one of the West Coast’s most influential contemporary landscape architects. Read More >>

TUUCI Design Partner

MeldStone: The new frontier in cast concrete furniture design

"Imagine being able to design and create things that have never been done before,” muses Landscape Forms Chief Creative Officer, Kirt Martin. “That’s what MeldStone™ gives us. Having the capability to achieve really thin cross-sections of cast concrete with a lot of structural stability raises the bar on what cast concrete site furniture can be. It’s a new frontier.” Read More >>

TUUCI Design Partner

Going Green: Growing sustainability across the Landscape Forms group of brands

For landscape architects, environmental accountability is an essential criterion in their work. And for Landscape Forms, it is a central focus to imbue this sense of accountability across all facets of its operation, working with its partner brands and design collaborators to continuously find new ways to mitigate its impact. Read More >>

TUUCI Design Partner

The Typology Collection: The Art & Science of Designing Uniquely Immersive Outdoor Experiences

In Landscape Forms’ largest lighting and modular bench collection introduced to-date, Typology creates a magnetic and immersive user experience. Each piece has distinct and memorable design features, but the overall sculptural quality, the unconventional juxtaposition of form, material and scale, and the artistic use of lighting within each component enable the collection to make a larger, unified statement. Read More >>

TUUCI Design Partner

Landscape Forms & TUUCI: Partners Cut From the Same Cloth

TUUCI is a Miami-based company known for its design and manufacture of premier umbrellas and shade structures for high-profile outdoor environments. Founded more than 15 years ago by a designer and sailing enthusiast with decades of experience in the boatbuilding industry, TUUCI specializes in shade. Read More >>

Manufacturing Excellence

Manufacturing Excellence: Landscape Forms Celebrates Two Major Industry Recognitions

In a year that was “unprecedented” in many ways, the Landscape Forms manufacturing teams can close out 2020 by celebrating the unique position of receiving not one, but two industry-leading recognitions. Read More >>

Introducing Claudia Issa, Kornegay Design Visiting Artist

Thinking with the Hands: Introducing Claudia Issa, Kornegay Design Visiting Artist

Following renown ceramicist Ian McDonald, Issa is the second artist to bring new creative perspective and aesthetic vocabulary to Kornegay Design through its Visiting Artist Program. Her work often incorporates elements of intentional imperfection, creating nontraditional beauty out of traditionally discarded materials and organic, asymmetrical forms. Read More >>

Healthy Outdoor Spaces:
A Process of Continuous
Improvement

Healthy Outdoor Spaces: Activating the Outdoors with Purpose

We have long promoted the idea that integrating unique and innovative outdoor experiences into public spaces plays a key role in elevating the quality of life of the community. The Healthy Outdoor Spaces collection has been designed specifically to address the new concerns of the times, the overall benefits of activating and beautifying underutilized outdoor spaces are far-reaching and enduring. Read More >>

Creating the Outdoor spaces we need right now

Creating the Outdoor Spaces
We Need Right Now

Upfit is an adaptive structure system with a modern style and endless flexibility to transform outdoor spaces into functional destinations. In the new era of social distancing and moving work, study and other activities outdoors, Upfit’s benefits have become even more acute. Its modular, scalable nature transforms underutilized outdoor areas into work spaces, classrooms, dining areas and meeting hubs, fully powered, lit and with the amenities people need to live, learn, work, care, play, and travel outdoors. Read More >>

Designing for Sustainability:
A Process of Continuous
Improvement

Designing for Sustainability: A Process of Continuous Improvement

Integral to our stated purpose to “Enrich Outdoor Spaces” is a strong dedication to sustainable product design and manufacturing processes, and the continual examination of how products and processes act upon the environment is requisite to achieving this goal. Read More >>

Prescribing Nature: A Physician’s Perspective on Wellness and the Outdoors

Prescribing Nature: A Physician’s Perspective on Wellness and the Outdoors

Chances are that some time in recent months you’ve dusted off that old bike in the garage, put on your walking shoes a little more regularly, or enjoyed other outdoor activities that are normally outside of your daily routine. We know being outside makes us feel better, but does it make us actually be better? Read More >>

New Glide beaches and Americana lounge seating from Landscape Forms & Loll Designs

Landscape Forms & Loll Designs: A Natural Fit

“I remember the first time I met Kirt Martin and the other Landscape Forms folks—it was a cinematic, eyes-meeting-across-the-room type of moment,” recalls Greg Benson, Loll Designs Founder and CEO, with a laugh. Read More >>

Studio 431 Article

Studio 431: Creating one-of-a-kind site furnishings from inspiration to installation

Studio 431 offers its customers a unique opportunity to design and create one-of-a-kind site furnishings, using a comprehensive, consultative approach to bring custom projects come to life. Read More >>

SixtySix Magazine Article

Inside Landscape Forms
with SixtySix Magazine

Sixtysix, a national magazine exploring the world's most interesting and influential designers and creatives, recently paid a visit to our Michigan headquarters to learn more about the unique creative process that drives Landscape Forms. Read More >>

Larry Kornegay Article

“How Does it Look?”:
Building on the Design Legacy of Larry Kornegay

“How does it look?” The deceptively simple phrase, jot down years ago by artist, designer, and founder, Larry Kornegay, remains a fixture on the umber walls of the neatly appoint-ed and immaculately landscaped desert studio Read More >>

Upfit Education Article

The Art of the Possible: Link

New from Landscape Forms, the Link seating system presents a new opportunity for designers of outdoor spaces: to achieve the scalability, elegance and creative freedom of custom, one-off site furnishings with added value and simplicity. Read More >>

Escofet Article

Designing the Future Since 1886

Escofet is a Barcelona-based design firm who, through the creation of luxury site furnishings and urban elements, is an international leader in the movement to transform and beautify public landscapes. Read More >>

Upfit Education Article

LABash Celebrates 50 Years of Inspiring Future Generations of Landscape Architects

Held at a different university each year, LABash is an entirely student-run conference offering the next generation of landscape architects. Read More >>

Upfit Education Article

Campus Place-making:
Education outside the walls

As teaching methods move toward more active and collaborative approaches to learning, there is a significant opportunity to better incorporate the spaces outside of the four walls of the classroom. Read More >>

Glare & Contrast Article

Investing in the Future of the Industry

Landscape Forms is proud to continue its partnership with the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) to offer an annual scholarship for distinguished undergraduate landscape architecture students. Read More >>

Glare & Contrast Article

Committed to Craft: The Landscape Forms Welding Academy

Beginning with just three welding machines in 2011, the Landscape Forms Welding Academy has quickly become one of the top welding programs in the nation, producing some of the most skilled and knowledgeable welders worldwide. Read More >>