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Tag: Architecture and Landscape


  • Student Competition: History of the Future

    IFLA (the International Federation of Landscape Architects) has launched a student competition in advance of its world congress in Russia in June. The competition will share the topic of the congress, which will be ‘History of the Future’. The organisers say, ‘The aim of the competition is to promote reflections on challenges and opportunities of

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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

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • Smout Allen: Augmented Landscapes and Delicate Machinery

    Smout Allen: Augmented Landscapes and Delicate Machinery

    In their lecture last month Mark Smout and Laura Allen discussed their recent work where architectural representation and the iterative process of design (investigation, proposition, drawing, making, modeling) lead to highly visual and engaging pieces which establish an important relationship between the user, the viewer and the artist/designer/architect. Smout Allen are architectural designers, researchers and

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  • The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series > 2014 – 2015 > presents…

    The Hawksmoor International Lecture Series > 2014 – 2015 > presents…

    The University of Greenwich Faculty of Architecture, Computing and Humanities presents THE HAWKSMOOR INTERNATIONAL OPEN LECTURE SERIES > 2014 – 2015 > TERM 02 ALL FREE ENTRY > THURSDAYS FROM 6.30pm TESSA BLACKSTONE LECTURE THEATRE [11_0003] Thursday 29 January > Smout Allen > Lecture > Mark Smout and Laura Allen > Augmented Landscapes and Delicate

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