Category: London
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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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A new #PublicSpaceCode for London
A collective manifesto for public space was begun earlier this year on Twitter. We have collected together twelve of the most liked, retweeted and inspiring contributions so far. The newly founded Department of Public Space initiated a manifesto to define future public spaces in London. Conceived by Ed Wall, Academic Leader Landscape at the University of Greenwich, and…
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Whole Earth Fellowship
The University of Greenwich Sustainability Hub awarded Daisy Haywood, a Masters in Landscape Architecture student, a Whole Earth Fellowship to carry out a research project on a sustainability issue. Daisy’s project, London-Under-Sea, explores the future of London’s flood defences. She published a zine in time for the UN climate change conference in Paris, to initiate…
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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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Videos of Greenwich MA Landscape Architecture Exhibitions
Videos of 2015, 2013 and 2012 landscape architecture exhibitions available on LAA website.
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James Corner to lecture in London at University of Greenwich, Department of Architecture and Landscape
Thursday 19th November 2015, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16 :: James Corner :: Intimate Immensity: Public Space in the City Renowned landscape architect James Corner will discuss current ideas about the design of vibrant urban public spaces, the…
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The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16 :: Gavin Parkinson :: Seurat’s Surrealist Dialectic
Thursday 12th November 2015, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] The resurgence of the reputation of Georges Seurat (1859-91) in the twentieth century is usually tied to the increased interest shown in classicism by critics and vanguard artists, particularly in the 1920s. This lecture demonstrates that there was an alternative and unexpected version of Seurat…
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Department of Public Space: A collective manifesto for public space
A new manifesto for public space was started this week at the University of Greenwich. Students and tutors from the MA Landscape Architecture and MSc Advanced Landscape and Urbanism programmes began writing a public space code for London. The public space code, inspired by Michael Sorkin’s Local Code (1993), is being collectively written in 140-character Tweets. The aim is to establish a Department of…
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The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16 :: Hanif Kara :: Designed Engineering
Thursday 5th November 2015, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Technology has obviously changed both architecture and engineering, and the potential for interaction. It has also redefined what each discipline calls ‘Design’. Today, as we enter the post digital era, the role of the structural engineer in ‘Design’ and the processes he uses to realise…
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100% of Landscape Architecture graduates in jobs
The UNISTATS data, collected by HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England), reveals that 100% of the full-time students graduating from the BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture programme at the University of Greenwich are in jobs/study within 6 months of graduation. Reflecting this exceptional statistic, Peter Wilder (below), a former graduate from Greenwich and employer of students…
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