Introduction

image take from www.stoss.net

founding principal: Chris Reed

location: 57 Melcher Street, Boston, MA

website: www.stoss.net

date incorporated: 2001

This website is an appoach to understanding the company called StoSS, Inc. and how they are applying theories of landscape urbanism to urban design projects and encouraging cities to implement sustainable technologies. This evaluation is based on a personal review of projects and studies available online. Many of the images, quotes and definitions were taken from the StoSS website.

In the beginning... The company started in 1995 as a part-time effort with several speculative urban projects that were early studies in strategic framework planning, brownfields recovery and stormwater harvesting. StoSS is a design and planning studio that operates in an emerging field known as landscape urbanism.

landscape urbanism : Addresses sites in relation to the broader ecological/environmental, infrastructural and social/cultural processes and systems that constitute them. It understands sites as caught up in the unfoldings and evolutions of contemporary landscape and civic life.

StoSS applies the methods/principals of landscape urbanism to their projects which range in scale from residential to city master plans. For brief descriptions and images of some of their projects, see the projects page.

Awards and Honors: · ASLA Merit Award, Silresim Superfund Redevelopment Study, Lowell, MA 2004 · 51 st Annual P/A Awards: Urban Design Citation Silresim Superfund Redevelopment Study, Lowell, MA · BSA Design Research Grant, Adaptive Design: Field Reconnaissance · BSA Honor Award for Unbuilt Architecture: - Silresim Superfund Redevelopment Study, Lowell, Massachusetts - Mt. Tabor Reservoirs, Portland, Oregon, 2004 - The Papago Trail, Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, 2002