Category: Events
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Landscape as Urbanism by Charles Waldheim – Lecture at University of Greenwich
You are invited to join architect and landscape theorist, Charles Waldheim, who will present Landscape as Urbanism at the University of Greenwich on Tuesday 24th May, 2016. The lecture will be free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. +++ An International Public Open Lecture, drinks reception and Book Launch at University of…
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Live Matter: Exhibition and Lecture by Rosetta Sarah Elkin
LIVE MATTER EXHIBITION from April 12 until May 21, 2016 Opening hours: Mon – Fri 9:30 – 17:30 Sat 14:00 – 18:00 This exhibition is in the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery of Byerly Hall at 8 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 LECTURE 11 April 2016 – 18:00 Inaugural lecture Rosetta Sarah Elkin Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture,…
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Tonight – Jinny Blom presents Land: A Psychology of Dislocation
Thursday 17th March 2016, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003], University of Greenwich Jinny’s work as a landscape and garden designer arose from her career as a psychologist and psychotherapist working therapeutically with people afflicted by schizophrenia, PTSD and acute anxiety. These days she is known for creating beautiful landscapes. Both careers have confirmed the effect…
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The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16 :: Alberto Pérez-Gomez :: Attunement: Architecture after the Crisis of Modern Science
Thursday 3rd March 2016, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. This lecture discusses possibilities for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected–attuned–to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, a…
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This Thursday – Topotek1’s Martin Rein-Cano to speak at Greenwich
We hope to see you on Thursday to join the Landscape Architecture programmes at the University of Greenwich as we continue to celebrate our 50th anniversary with a lecture by Martin Rein-Cano, founder of Topotek1. Martin will deliver a Hawksmoor International Lecture on Thursday 18th February at 6:30pm. In his lecture Martin Rein-Cano will be presenting a Topotek…
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A celebration of US band the Pixies
Music and art come together to celebrate one of the most influential bands of the last 30 years. Where Is My Mind? The Work of Vaughan Oliver and the Pixies is the first major exhibition exploring the long-standing collaboration between legendary art director and designer Vaughan Oliver and the Pixies. Curated by Nic Clear, Head…
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The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16 :: Mike Aling :: Spatial Codices: On Architecture Book Design
Thursday 11th February 2016, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Mike will be discussing his architecture book design work developed over the last few years, as well as ongoing research into the histories and theories of the architecture book canon. Through an exploration of artists’ books, topological texts, cybernetic and ergodic literatures, sequential art and…
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Topotek1’s Martin Rein-Cano to speak at Greenwich
The Landscape Architecture programmes at the University of Greenwich will continue to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a lecture by Martin Rein-Cano, founder of Topotek1. Martin will deliver a Hawksmoor International Lecture on Thursday 18th February at 6:30pm. In his lecture Martin Rein-Cano will be presenting a Topotek 1 project, Superkilen in Copenhagen. Superkilen is a public park in…
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Missed the James Corner lecture? Watch it online
Last week landscape architect James Corner delivered the weekly Hawksmoor International Lecture at the University of Greenwich. If you missed it you can watch it online: http://gre.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=415f777f-3b5d-4881-aed2-9dc2b8394c4a The weekly series of open public lectures attracts leading voices in architecture, art and landscape architecture. Last year the series included lectures by, among others, Will Alsop, Eelco Hoftman, Peter Wison and Michael Sorkin. This…
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Comment on James Corner’s UoG lecture on 19th November
James Corner gave a very good lecture, ‘recovering’ one’s faith in the capability of landscape architects to do great projects which make cities better places. Also, he helped me understand what he means by ‘landscape urbanism’. I do not disagree with his view. But I tend to think of LU more as a design method than, perhaps,…
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