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Tag: MA Landscape Architecture


  • 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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  • 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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  • landscape portfolio 2014/02

    landscape portfolio 2014/02

    Heygate Estate Pioneered Kit’s project is based at the vacant Heygate Estate, Walworth, South London. Initially he questioned whether the borough of Southwark’s, objective of redevelopment, could be arrived at without complete demolition of the 40 year old estate. Fascinated by the pioneer plants, which colonise previously disrupted ecosystems to begin a chain of ecological

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  • landscape portfolio 2014/01

    Over the coming month we will publish summaries of MA student projects. First, is Blanche Crossley’s project that explores the escape of prisoner George Blake. George Blake’s Escape Blanche’s project is based around Wormwood Scrubs, in West London. This is an area dominated by a prison, a vast scrub-land and a thick myriad of train lines

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  • London Landscape Exhibition – Opening Monday

    London Landscape Exhibition – Opening Monday

    On behalf of the MA Landscape Architecture Students at the University of Greenwich, you are formally invited to the private view of the graduating students’ work. Monday, 5:30pm – 9:00pm, The Gallery (Alan Baxter Associates), Cowcross Street, London The exhibition has been organised and curated by the students – and is generously supported by Wilder Associates,

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  • ‘University of Greenwich is practising what it preaches’ – The Independent

    ‘University of Greenwich is practising what it preaches’ – The Independent

    This week, the Landscape programmes at the University of Greenwich were praised by the i-Independent in an article discussing Landscape Architecture. The city’s unsung heroes; Widget Finn flies the flag for landscape architects was published in the i-Independent and described the work being done at Greenwich by the staff and students. The article discussed the importance of

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  • The Symbiosis – living together

    The Symbiosis – living together

    Giedre Paliukaityte and Joana Avelar Quintas have been selected to build a landscape installation in Hortillonnages Amiens. It is the 5th year Maison de la Culture d’Amiens and the Borough Councils of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk present project Art, Villes & Paysage | Art, Cities & Landscape which is a part of the INTERREG

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  • Winning Royal Docks Landscape Project – Congratulations to Bethany Gale and Sarah Tolley

    Winning Royal Docks Landscape Project – Congratulations to Bethany Gale and Sarah Tolley

    Following our post yesterday that Bethany and Sarah, both gradates from the MA Landscape Architecture programme at Greenwich, were shortlisted for the Landscape Institute’s Royal Docks Competition, they have been announced as overall winners. They saw off strong international competition from professional practices and students. Studio Engleback, Baharash Architects and students Christos Diplas and James Hartwell

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