Thank you to FOLAR for holding a seminar on the landscape architecture of Britain’s New Towns. The above video, which was my contribution to the event, celebrates the contributions of the Four Landscape Knights (Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Sir Frederick Gibberd, Sir …
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The LAA is preparing three videos for publication to remind everyone of Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe. The 20th anniversary of his death will be on 17 July 2016. Jellicoe made six key contributions to the landscape architecture profession: Jellicoe helped found the Institute of …
There are more veteran and ancient oaks in England than the rest of Europe. Currently 115 ancient oaks are recorded in England and only 97 elsewhere in Europe (including Ireland, Scotland and Wales). An ancient oak has a girth of …
AGM/Study Session and Exhibition at MERL, University of Reading Saturday 19 March 2016. 10.00am to 5 pm Existing and new members all welcome The Study Session and Exhibition will focus on New Towns, Landscape and Gordon Patterson – Celebrating mid 20C Design …
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The above video questions whether Lancelot Brown one of the world’s great designers – as Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (from 1:17 in the video below) speaks of ‘Capability Brown who one of the great designers in the world without a doubt’. Since …
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Twelve UK-based landscape architects explain how they see the landscape profession and why they enjoy being landscape architects. Dominic Cole, in the first interview, explains that ‘A landscape architect is the equivalent of an architect but for the outdoors. In …
Kathryn Gustafson (1951-) is an American landscape architect. She studied at the the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and worked as a fashion designer in Paris before studying landscape architecture at the L’École nationale supérieure de paysage in …
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Eelco Hooftman studied landscape architecture at Wageningen and runs his practice GROSS. MAX from Edinburgh. Eelco is said to combine a Dutch sense of experimentation with a British sense of humour and German rigour. This lecture, delivered at the Walker Art Center …
Eelco Hooftman landscape architect GROSS. MAX Edinburgh Read more »
Kim Wilkie studied history at Oxford and landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. After returning to the UK he set up a landscape studio in London, in 1989. Publications Led by the Land Frances Lincoln, 2012 – ISBN …
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Peter Walker is an American landscape architect. He graduated from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1957 and went into partnership with Hideo Sasaki in 1972 and then with Martha Schwartz in 1983. Walker co-designed the World Trade Center Memorial …
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