Category: London
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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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New green roofs and studio spaces
Check out the video featuring the new roof gardens and studio spaces that are currently under production. The University of Greenwich is leading the global discourse on green roofs in their new Stockwell Street building that will be home to the Landscape Architecture and Urbanism programmes from September. The green roofs are one of the…
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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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New Student Accommodation at Greenwich
Along with the new Stockwell Street development that will be home to the landscape programmes for 2014, the University of Greenwich has also invested in new student accommodation. Daniel Defoe Hall, a new hall of residence near the Greenwich Campus will be opening in September 2014. The hall, located next to the Greenwich rail and…
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Join the RELEAF London i-Tree Eco Tree and Woodland Survey 2014
Do you want to be involved in the world’s largest urban forest survey? Can you spare five days this Summer? Then register your interest in the London i-tree survey 2014. The RELEAF London Partnership is undertaking a survey of London’s trees and woodlands, to establish the benefits they provide and put a value on them. We need 200 volunteers for one day’s training…
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Welcome to the Landscape
The Landscape is a platform for landscape, design, architecture and urbanism. It includes quick news on projects, exhibitions, lectures and events as well as longer articles and reviews. If you would like to join the team, contribute an article or publish a project please get in touch. The Landscape was launched in September 2013 and is published…
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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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