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: landscape experience
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 […]
End of the year review: three future prospects for research through designing
‘echo of emptiness’ collage by Zuzana Jančovičová (see below) Being a teacher means to be future oriented. Whatever I bring from the past to my students will always be transformed into something that cannot yet […]
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 […]
Dulness as a quality of landscape aesthetics
art examples that help to shape (urban) landscape experiences
Comic books and their incredible landscapes
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. […]
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