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Summer Flowers
A brief interlude As I was wrapping up grad school, going on a belated honeymoon with Patrick, and starting a new job, in the background I was cobbling together annuals to plant in our new-found south side sun. Last year we had several trees taken down and this spring, April 2025, I used a skidsteer…
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Syracuse Urban Forest
More than just an eyesore, vacant land can impact the community well-being, physical health, and mental health of citizens. Urban forests can reverse these effects: they can be beautiful, improve the air quality, reduce the heat island effect, and improve mental and physical health of those that live in urban environments.
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Historic Olmsted Bros. Bridges
Renderings of what the historic Genesee Valley Park Olmsted Brothers bridges could look like if restored. Rochester has a strong connection to the work of the father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted. Over 100 years later, much of his legacy is enjoyed by thousands of residents of Rochester’s 19th Ward community, of which I…
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Syracuse Urban Forest Renderings
Reforesting of city-owned vacant lots on the east side of South Avenue: At the intersection of West Colvin Street and South Avenue, replicating a planting design called “Dana’s Square” at the Alnarp Landscape Laboratory in Sweden : Empty grass lot on the southeast corner of West Colvin Street and South Avenue, showing potential growth over…
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Rhino > Unreal Engine for Landscape Designers
YouTube tutorial showing how to quickly make a basic building model in Rhino 8, export it, and bring it into Unreal Engine to create a landscape. This video includes helpful timestamps, a reference to whiskey, and some colorful language. It is by no means a complete or perfect tutorial as I made it for classmates…
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Rendering | Light Experiment
Last year I briefly worked in Unreal Engine after constructing a bridge model of I-81 in Rhino. Unreal has more realistic graphics and control than Lumion or Revit and many free or affordable options for add-ons that I think could be highly desirable for landscape designers. Unreal is an extremely powerful 3D computer graphics game…
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Occultation as a Method to Remove Invasive Species
Using black plastic to rehabilitate garden beds on a historic city property. When we purchased our house in August 2022, if we include the lawn, the entirety of the landscape was covered in invasive species and weeds. A few perennial plants persisted among them but it was clear there would be no way to have…
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Alling Stephen DeForest: A First Encounter
A page from one of DeForest’s scrapbooks, taken by Jesse Horning. Scrapbooks owned by Chip Stevens. In 1934, prominent Rochester landscape architect Alling Stephen DeForest was commissioned by Fred E. Reed, the son of the Frank E. Reed, owner of Reed Glass Co., and original owner of a unique 19th Ward home. For decades the…
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Jesse Horning 