Claudia Moll traces the work of Theodor and Otto Froebel, two pioneers of the flourishing Swiss garden culture of the 19th century, who built up a worldwide trading network with a rich assortment of rare plants.
Walking the same paths day by day, we cease to be aware of our surroundings. This issue of Pamphlet intentionally leads readers afield in an attempt to subvert this tendency—finding new perspectives in familiar territory.
This issue of Pamphlet proposes that, as landscape architects, we must thoroughly investigate the medium by innovating our design methods, strategies, processes, and tools to gain a literacy of place, which like the delta itself, embraces multiple threads and a constantly changing course.