Prairie

The prairie is a grassland ecosystem, expansive and seemingly uniform, yet ecologically diverse and historically shaped by fire, grazing, and cultivation. In North America, prairies carry symbolic weight as both frontier and breadbasket, sites of settlement and displacement. Contemporary prairie restorations seek to reclaim lost biodiversity while negotiating agricultural pressures. The prairie thus embodies both ecological endurance and cultural contestation.

Anna Thurmayr and Dietmar Straub, operating from Winnipeg, Canada, approach landscape architecture less as a matter of monumental authorship and more as a form of quiet insurgency. Their practice resists spectacle, embracing instead small yet resonant gestures, collective processes, and deep attentiveness to context—whether planting 20,000 crocuses into a lawn or constructing an ephemeral Snow […]

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