Excerpts of stories that help to shape (urban) landscape experience, part 6 Okay, this may be my favourite subject. In some ways a guilty pleasure because comic books are still for geeks or the illiterate. […]
Movie scripts and landscape experiences
Hi there. In addition to last month post, that produced quite some positive response on diverse linkedIN networks, I would recommend to watch this TEDtalk by David Byrne (former singer/frontman of the Talking Heads). […]
Music that helps to shape landscape experiences (an excerpt)
(music begins at 1:01) The landscape architect Olmsted declared that ‘landscapes moves us in a manner more analogous to music than anything else’ (Olmsted biography by Martin 2011, 155). He was aware of a fascinating […]
A near future with external memory storage and Bionet >>> wait a minute… bionet?
Will landscape experiences change by the influences of smartphones and on-site-extensive-information (OSEI)? Yes, probably just as radical as novels and travel guides have changed the perspective of the tourist/public gaze, since they first became popular. […]
Billy Pilgrim, landscape bombing backwards
This excerpt is from a book by Kurt Vonnegut (1922 Indianapolis USA – 2007), an American writer who writes hilariously funny about modern or future American life. Most of his books are written from the […]
Excerpts of stories that help to shape (urban) landscape experience
Starting this new year, 2014, I intend to create posts that are different from what I wrote about in the past months. There are literary excerpts to be shared with you, containing diverse aspects of […]
The shy look in the eyes of landscape designers
Because it is Christmas time, I wish you a pleasant experience with this link. It contains a movie about the painting above, creating a portal landscape. Enjoy and take your time. Each year, new students […]
Axiom of Abundance
Just a small announcement this month because it is hectic. As every year at this time of the year, all seems to be caught up in a run towards some kind of ending. The end […]
‘Once again, it is time for something new’
This title is a quote by Rem Koolhaas. It was published as part of an interview with a newspaper (TROUW, October 19 2013) this weekend. These journalist had not spoken to him in nine years. […]
Proud about ideas
Of course there are sparse moments of self-pride. Even with the average self-esteem of landscape designers, some ideas and deliveries are worth wallowing in. An instance of the purest sublime by an act of creation: […]
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