The Landscape Institute’s Library and Archive is held at MERL, the Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading. As well as the LI’s library and archive MERL has a comprehensive national collection of objects, books and archives …
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Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900 -1996) was an English architect, town planner, landscape architect, garden designer and author. Jellicoe was a founder member of the Institute of Landscape architects (now the Landscape Institute), in 1929, and its President from 1939-1949. In 1948, …
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Tom Turner answers questions from University of Greenwich BA landscape architecture students about: the definition of landscape architecture international influences on British landscape architecture favourite landscape projects from the 3000 year history of landscape architecture how climate change might affect landscape …
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Lawrence Halprin tells how a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin led him to become a designer. ‘Ever since then, I’ve been a landscape architect, thank God’, he says on this video. Halprin studied at Harvard and, like many American …
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The Landscape Institute video (on landscape architecture as a career) provides a very good overview of: the history of the landscape architecture profession – which has its feet in the stone age, its body in the last two centuries and its …
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Tom Turner was interviewed by Lalla Hussain on 24th March 2015. She was a first year BA Landscape Architecture student at the University of Greenwich in London and had qustions about about: the definition of landscape architecture, the theory of landscape …
May I underline Tom’s page on pro bono landscape architecture by referring to the example of the American Bar Association whose ethical rules require members to contribute 50 hours of pro bono work each year, to quote their website: ” …
No tillage means avoiding ploughing and the consequent disruption of soil structure, increased run-off and soil erosion. It raises albedo and retains soil water. No till farming involves direct drilling of seed without disturbing the soil, at small scale it …
Costs of London rents and freehold properties are rising beyond ordinary workers’ means (to £474,544 in June 2015 (i)). People are having to travel from outside the Greenbelt at great expense. The Mayor’s draft Housing Policy (2014) forecast a need …
