Category: Events
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Match the designer to the design: who is responsible for the Natural History Museum landscape designs?
The Natural History Museum has released images of the five concept strategies put forward by the shortlisted teams vying to win the design competition to reshape the Museum’s grounds and reinvigorate its public setting in the heart of London’s South Kensington. The shortlisted teams, comprising architects in collaboration with landscape architects and other sub-consultants (not listed here), were announced…
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To The Stars :: Architects Are Needed :: Kelvin F. Long :: Open International Lecture
Open Lecture – Wednesday 26th February @ 6pm To The Stars – Architects Are Needed – Kelvin F. Long The last century has seen the rise of Interstellar Studies, an inspirational new subject where people from all walks of life, including aerospace engineers, physicists, artists and science fiction writers, look with excitement towards the bold…
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Living Walls Knowledge Transfer Day
The Sustainable Landscapes Research Group, Department of Architecture and Landscape is pleased to announce the forthcoming ‘Living Walls Knowledge Transfer Day.’ This mini conference will host guest speakers as well as staff from the University discussing various aspects of living walls, including the state of knowledge as well as talks by all the key manufacturers…
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Jason Bruges :: Landscape & Architecture International Lecture Series :: University of Greenwich
What happens when architecture and interaction design collide to create everyday performance? Playing to the individual and to crowds, and changing the performative repertoire in real-time can manifest itself through a diverse palette of kinetic, animated, time-based and sometimes smart materials. We can choreograph real and imagined spaces. This choreography is explored through different mechanisms…
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Working with floods: leading landscape architecture & urbanism approaches
As the South of England continues to be inundated with storms, The Landscape side-steps the political finger-pointing to present leading initiatives to working with water, projects led by Landscape Architects, Urbanists and Designers. 1. On the Water: Palisade Bay – This research project explores the patterns of storms on the East Coast of the US and their…
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When buildings come to life as landscape – on the BBC
Dr Benz Kotzen, Landscape Architect and Postgraduate Coordinator for Landscape at the University of Greenwich, is interviewed by the BBC’s Click programme. He discusses the green roof innovation of the new university building at Stockwell Street: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9712678.stm In 2014 all the landscape programmes will be based in the new building which will also be home to…
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Living Maps seminar series: Map is not territory
Conventional cartographies are good at depicting the visible surface of the world but tend to obscure or exclude its deeper layers of meaning, especially those associated with natural and cultural histories whose material traces may be difficult to decode. This seminar will explore some recent ‘archaeological’ strategies designed to excavate and put these hidden histories…
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Exploration Architecture : Designing with Nature : Exhibition at the Architecture Foundation
In February The Architecture Foundation presents Exploration Architecture: Designing with Nature – the first solo show by Exploration. This innovative architecture practice focuses on biomimicry, sustainability and searches for unique future-facing solutions. This time they showcase four selected projects and 3D printed installation, short videos, sketches, study models and natural artifacts which inspired the designs. Where: The Architecture Foundation,…
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Eelco Hooftman :: Gross Max :: Land / Scape / Architecture :: Open Lecture
Eelco Hooftman will give the Open Lecture at University of Greenwich on Wednesday 29th January. 6:00pm in the Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre, Avery Hill Campus. Landscape Architecture interacts in a complex continuum between man and nature, town and country, land and architecture. We no longer reconcile the duality of opposite forces but orchestrate and choreograph…
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Landscape Photographer of the Year 2013 Exhibition
MLA student, Ellen Orchard, reviews the Landscape Photographer of the Year exhibition at the National Theatre. Viewing landscape through the lens of a camera is an unique skill that does not need to rely on how expensive your equipment is, but your compositional eye more importantly. Of course, having the latest versions of technology help…
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