Category: Greenwich
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What is it to design the city? Find out on the Masters Advanced Landscape and Urbanism
Applications are open for the Masters Advanced Landscape and Urbanism. The Masters programme supports students to develop inventive and speculative approaches to the design of cities, landscape and territories. It promotes distinct design and research methods and the integration of new and innovative technologies to explore the complexity of contemporary cities, including issues of urban growth,…
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Michael Sorkin to speak at University of Greenwich Future Cities conference
AVATAR presents: FUTURE CITIES 4: RECONCILING OPPOSITES Friday 17th April – 10am > 5pm + Drinks reception from 5pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Keynote Speaker – MICHAEL SORKIN City College of New York / Michael Sorkin Studio JUSTIN McGUIRK Strelka Press / Writer, Critic, Curator IAN WORLEY Enderby Group, Greenwich NIC CLEAR University of Greenwich…
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Landscape Architecture Jobs
Leading London Landscape Architecture Firms Recruiting – Apply Now Graduate and ‘Year-Out’ Positions 2015 Turkington Martin are landscape architects and urban designers, providing creative design consultancy at all scales of planning and development. We are committed to high quality public realm design, providing an exemplary service to our varied clients. We have a really interesting range of urban…
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Change career? Become a Landscape Architect in less than 2-years at the University of Greenwich
Are you interested in the design of cities and environments? You can become a Landscape Architect through a 2-year graduate entry Masters programme at the University of Greenwich. The graduate conversion (PG Cert Landscape Design + MA Landscape Architecture) teaches design of landscapes and cities, horticulture, ecology, conservation, material construction and theory for graduates interested in becoming qualified Landscape Architects. The…
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Submit portfolio or dissertation for Landscape Institute Student Award
Registration for the 2015 Landscape Institute Awards ends 30th April 2015. Graduates should register to submit their dissertation or portfolio for the student awards. What can I enter? The 15 categories are listed above. These include student categories which are free to enter. This year, a new category ‘Design for a Temporary Landscape’, has been created in…
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The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series: Coren Sharples Construction is Communication – How SHoP Builds
The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series AD Architectural Design Annual Lecture Coren Sharples Construction is Communication: How SHoP Builds Thursday 26th March 2015 > 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] What opportunities does technology bring to design and construction today? And what pitfalls? In this talk, SHoP’s Coren Sharples will explore the space where technology,…
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Teaching at Greenwich
Peter Wilder, a guest lecturer and former student at the University of Greenwich, offers his first impressions of the new building at Stockwell Street. I recently had the pleasure of teaching at the new University of Greenwich campus in Stockwell Street. Having been a student and lecturer at the Dartford and Avery Hill Campus, it…
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Public Lecture Tonight :: Reciprocal Landscapes: Sites of Material Exchange
The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series presents Jane Hutton discussing Reciprocal Landscapes: Sites of Material Exchange Thursday 26th February 2015 6.30pm in the Tessa Blackstone Lecture Hall 11-0003 Drinks served after the Lecture at 7.30pm Landscapes are shaped by continuous flows of materials driven by anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic forces. Designers participate in this massive reorganization…
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Ray Winkler Stufish: The Architecture of Entertainment
The Hawksmoor International Open Lecture Series Ray Winkler [Stufish] Stufish: The Architecture of Entertainment Thursday 12th February 2015 > 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Stufish Entertainment Architects, founded by the late and legendary Mark Fisher, is the recognised leader in permanent, touring and temporary entertainment architecture. Though the studio’s name has evolved over the…
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William Hague MP opens Greenwich building with “biggest learning green roof in Europe”
First Secretary of State, the Rt Hon William Hague MP praised Britain’s universities as “one of our nation’s most distinctive contributions to the world” as he officially opened the university’s new Stockwell Street building on Tuesday 9 December. The former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs toured the building’s facilities, discussing the 24-Hour East of…
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