It is with great honor that I may announce, that I am invited as one of the speakers at the opening of the academic year at Wageningen University, Monday September 7, 2015. 14:30. You are […]
Tag: design education
MADRID 2015 Best Graduation Projects Landscape Architecture, Urbanism and Architecture
Last week in Madrid, the Archiprix International 2015 was completed with prize winners and an international workshop on the new urban reality in Madrid. If you are interested in the new role of designers and […]
Lessons learned from two decades of teaching landscape design
Teaching young people how to design a landscape is more an initiation than making them jump the hoops filled with tricks and skills. At times, it even feels like this initiation has much in common […]
Conversations with students, part 2: tangible design
As a followup from last month post, I will continue discussing the Studio Site Design for our second year students landscape architecture. I have been responsible for this studio for 12 years now. A […]
Conversations with students, part I: land-art
There is a series of books called ‘conversations with students’. Various architects and other guru-like teachers are portrayed, as they interact with students. You can find a list here. I particularly like the book on […]
Follow-up on books for landscape design education
Click here for the 99% invisible podcast First of all, there is reason to express my sincerest thanks to all those that responded to last month’s call. Within various Linked-in groups a lot of people […]
What have been the teaching books on landscape architecture that have (really) helped to shape both your professional sense of place and sense of self?
There is no time for any long reads this month. But I do wish to include you in a project that is about to start. The European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) is intend […]
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. […]
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