Category: London
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Job of the week
Education and Training Officer Responsible to: Head of Education and Membership Ultimate responsibility to: Chief Executive Job Purpose To organise and manage the LI’s CPD events To develop the LI’s CPD / training offer To organise and manage the LI’s Chartership examinations To manage the ‘Pathway to Chartership’ online process and other designated routes to…
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The End of the Metropolis Era: Edward W. Soja, Open Lecture at the University of Greenwich
On Monday 18 November, 6:00pm, Edward W. Soja, one of the world’s leading urban geographers, will be speaking at the University of Greenwich, Maritime Campus, King William Building, KW315. Urban restructuring over the past thirty years has been leading to a sea change in the very nature of the urbanization process. Signs of this change…
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Dan Pearson Exhibition at the Garden Museum
As the Dan Pearson exhibition at the Garden Museum, in London, nears its close, MA student Giacomo Guzzon reflects on the designers work. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the exhibition called ‘Green Fuse’: The work of Dan Pearson at the Garden Museum in London. Dan Pearson is a plants-man, garden…
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Neil Denari to give public lecture: The Return to the Real
On Tuesday Neil M. Denari presents The Return to the Real as part of the University of Greenwich Open International Lecture. Come and join us at the Norbert Singer Lecture Theatre / M055, Mansion Site, Avery Hill Campus, on Tuesday 29th October at 18:00hrs.
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Building it up – then burning it down: Arne Quinze presents…
Last night Arne Quinze presented his portfolio of artwork at the University of Greenwich. The artist renowned for his dramatic timber and metal installations gave a captivating account of his work process and inspiration. His Uchronia project for the Burning Man festival in the Nevada Desert gained worldwide attention in 2006.
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Grounds for Optimism – Designing Resilient Landscapes in London
On November 6th Johanna Gibbons and Neil Davidson of J & L Gibbons LLP, will be at the Garden Museum to talk about their recent exciting projects, including their winning entry to RIBA and Vauxhall BID’s ‘Vauxhall Missing Link Competition’ to redesign the public realm in the Vauxhall area of Nine Elms on the South…
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New skatepark for Southbank Centre?
Rick Mather has been appointed to oversee a new skate park on the South Bank in London. No images or details yet – but an announcement: “Drawing on ideas suggested by local skateboarders as well as on their own expertise, they identified that the prime use of this site would focus on street skateboarding as…
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A Grimm City? Check it out at the Design Museum
2012 marked the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales. To celebrate this occasion FleaFollyArchitects over the space of 5 weeks, ran a small summer atelier on the outskirts of the Black Forest in Germany. As a group of young architects and designers they planned and built the ‘Grimm City’…
The Landscape 