250 Things a Landscape Architect Should Know [2021]

This book was spawned by loss and tragedy, but it ismy hope that it will bring inspiration and optimism. WhenMichael Sorkin – the inimitable urbanist, theorist and ar chitecture critic – died of COVID­19 on 26 March 2020,

a groundswell of memories and commiserations filled social­ media feeds, websites and design journals. It was also the first moment that the pandemic impacted some­one whose work I followed and admired, a personality that I assumed floated above such eventualities as aglobal pandemic. Caught up in the collective reflection on Michael’s work, I found myself reading his “Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should K now”, allowing each word to land with more profundity knowing that Sork in was gone