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  • Landscape Jobs

    Landscape Jobs

    See the job description for 2 new positions available at Aralia: AR-20160302-A-Assistant Landscape Designer Job Description Colleagues at Aralia describe: ‘It is felt that the level of potential candidate from Greenwich reflect the required standard Aralia is looking for.’ Please visit their website www.aralia.org.uk to find out a little more about them. They are an award winning practice both

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  • The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16 :: Carlo Diaco :: Fracture in Forming

    Thursday 10th March 2016, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003], University of Greenwich Over the last two decades, technological innovation has dramatically changed the way architects and engineers work. The software tools available today have inspired the generation, modelling and optimisation of shapes with a level of complexity that could hardly have been imagined just

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  • A celebration of US band the Pixies

    A celebration of US band the Pixies

    Music and art come together to celebrate one of the most influential bands of the last 30 years. Where Is My Mind? The Work of Vaughan Oliver and the Pixies is the first major exhibition exploring the long-standing collaboration between legendary art director and designer Vaughan Oliver and the Pixies. Curated by Nic Clear, Head

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  • The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16 :: Mike Aling :: Spatial Codices: On Architecture Book Design

    The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16 :: Mike Aling :: Spatial Codices: On Architecture Book Design

    Thursday 11th February 2016, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Mike will be discussing his architecture book design work developed over the last few years, as well as ongoing research into the histories and theories of the architecture book canon. Through an exploration of artists’ books, topological texts, cybernetic and ergodic literatures, sequential art and

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  • Tim Waterman to speak at UCL Institute for Global Prosperity

    IGP Seminar with Tim Waterman Thursday 10 March, 4 – 6 pm 103, Engineering Front Executive Suite Torrington Place London WC1E 7JE Taste and appetite in the construction of everyday life and the public imagination provide the key for understanding how conceptions of utopia can be rescued from abstraction and be employed to effect real

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  • Greenwich Landscape Architect wins International Competition

    Greenwich Landscape Architect wins International Competition

    FFLO have won an international competition to design a transparent sauna in Toronto. Their design for the Winter Stations competition has been selected from 368 entries to be built this February. James Fox, director of FFLO and landscape architecture design tutor at the University of Greenwich, describes the project: “This transparent polycarbonate sauna for three offers a

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  • Apply to be a Landscape Architect

    Apply to be a Landscape Architect

    Applications are open to study Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Greenwich, starting in September 2016. If you are interested to be a Landscape Architect contact us and we can arrange an informal visit, for you to meet other students and to see some of our great student work. For undergraduate studies the BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture programme

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  • Whole Earth Fellowship

    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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  • Surreal Bodies :: Neil Spiller :: The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16

    Surreal Bodies :: Neil Spiller :: The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series 2015-16

    Thursday 22nd October 2015, 6.30pm Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003] Above all, the Surrealist legacy is about bodies: their mutability, desire, viscera and, due to advancements in technology, their increasing transparency – all of which are also fundamental to the ongoing discourse concerning architectural space. The Surrealist body is an open concept, forever in metamorphosis.

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  • Tim Ingold lecture :: Ethnography is to Anthropology as Art History is to Arts Practice: A Provocation

    Tim Ingold lecture :: Ethnography is to Anthropology as Art History is to Arts Practice: A Provocation

    Tuesday 10 November 2015 – 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, UK, WC2R 0RN There is much contemporary interest in the relation between contemporary art and ethnography, driven on both sides by a critique of the artistic and literary conventions, respectively,

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