Category: Exhibitions
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Charles Jencks – The Cells of Life
On a recent visit to Edinburgh I took a short bus ride to the outskirts of the city to discover Jupiter Artland. It was here that I was to experience Cells of Life, a landform completed in 2010 by Charles Jencks, the American architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer. You enter the artwork on a
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Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album
“I wanted to document something. I wanted to leave something that I thought would be a record of it, whether it was Martin Luther King, the hippies, or whether it was the artist.” (Dennis Hopper) The best photography exhibition in London currently is the Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album collection being exhibited at the Royal Academy
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Visions for Heathrow City
In 2013 the Airports Commission, established by the government, published a report, concluding that South East needs an additional runway by 2030 and possibly a second additional by 2050. The biggest pressure falls onto Heathrow Airport which currently runs at its full potential and there is no doubt that it needs a new strategy. Although,
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L.S. Lowry – the contemporary crowd
Upon visiting the L.S. Lowry exhibition at Tate Britain in London in October 2013, my notion of a city was developed as I added a critical view towards the concept of a crowd. By observing that the urban landscape went through a metamorphosis process, I was able to relate its historical legacy with the present
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Arne Quinze — Flame
The World Expo Jing‘an International Sculpture Exhibition opened in 1th September, 2010 in shanghai. One of the most attractive work is “Flame” from a Belgain artist, Arne Quinze. The works of Arne Quinze like the game of children named ‘stick’. He used the wood and made them in a thaumaturgic shape, and called it ”Flame”.
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New Landscape / New Architecture / Old Street
Last month Architecture and Landscape at the University of Greenwich enjoyed a beautiful evening of talks at a pop-up event at Old Street. Amongst many wondrous things, collecting snow-domes & the ennui of life after snow-domes, un-butchering Bacon in the Tate, an obsessive on Le Corbusier’s landscapes and, most importantly, two days of showing excellent work by
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landscape portfolio 2014/02
Heygate Estate Pioneered Kit’s project is based at the vacant Heygate Estate, Walworth, South London. Initially he questioned whether the borough of Southwark’s, objective of redevelopment, could be arrived at without complete demolition of the 40 year old estate. Fascinated by the pioneer plants, which colonise previously disrupted ecosystems to begin a chain of ecological
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micro A+L pop-up exhibition
End of Year Exhibition We are delighted to announce the End of Year Exhibition for the Department of Architecture + Landscape is now open until Saturday 21st June (Open daily 9.00am – 7.00pm). The Architecture + Landscape Department exhibition showcases both Architecture and Landscape work together in the UNESCO World Heritage Queen Anne building designed
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Floating gardens for Hortillonnages Amiens
Landscape installation ‘Symbios-living together’ was built this week by Giedre Paliukaityte and Joana Quintas. Being a part of ‘Art, Villes & Paysage | Art, Cities & Landscape’ project it offers an opportunity to find new relations between natural and man-made environments and have a closer experience of sensitive surroundings. Located on water a network of
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landscape portfolio 2014/01
Over the coming month we will publish summaries of MA student projects. First, is Blanche Crossley’s project that explores the escape of prisoner George Blake. George Blake’s Escape Blanche’s project is based around Wormwood Scrubs, in West London. This is an area dominated by a prison, a vast scrub-land and a thick myriad of train lines
The Landscape 