Author(s): Maryam Eskandari
To gain a better understating of the roles that both architects and landscape architects play in creating an equitable resilient future, we have to rethink the foundation of ecological education and learn to design critically in the way that the original care-takers of our land, the indigenous tribes, have done by invoking and designing consciously for the next seven generations.1 In theory, architecture should be designing, building and developing through landscape urbanism and developing the urban environment by shrinking city sprawls and suburbanization and cultivating stewardship through social-ecological transformations that reestablish human-ecosystem relationships. The case study presented here is a 5-year research project that investigates the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, 24,000 acres with 8.5 miles of coastland at the confluence of fresh and sea water, as the last largely undeveloped, yet damaged by the foundational infrastructure of developers, in the state of California. The goal of the investigation has been to create a place at the preserve that would actively restore and remediate the land, returning it back to its original condition by implementing Chumash knowledge practices in ecological architecture, landscapes, craftsmanship through plants and properties, preservation of biodiversity, enhancement of migration patterns of fauna, and mitigation of climate changes etc. 2 which were in practice before the unpermitted occupation of the developers and investors, to ensure a resilient future for the state.
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978-1-944214-41-8