Tag: Urbanism
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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’
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Landscape jobs of the week
Landscape Architecture firm Planit IE are hiring. Check out their website for opportunities for graduates as well as experienced landscape architects and urban designers. “As the scale and geography of our projects grows, so in turn do the opportunities to grow our team.” Jobs are opening up in Manchester, London and in Copenhagen.
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A Strange Newness: An open lecture on Architecture as Science Fiction
Literary critic Darko Suvin contends that science fiction is a ‘literature of cognitive estrangement’ expressing an ‘exclusive interest in a strange newness, a novum’; any survey of the most advanced architectural production of the last one hundred years reveals the existence of whole series of fictional ‘novum’ even if they are not explicitly labelled as
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Gilles Clement, Entropy by Design and Matthew Gandy
If you haven’t read it already, check out the paper by geographer Matthew Gandy about Gilles Clément’s project in Lille. The paper, Entropy by Design, explores the Parc Henri Matisse in Lille by Clément – the renowned French designer, landscape architect, ecologist and philosopher. Once you have read the paper, and if you happen to be
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Landmarks across the United States reopen
Many national landmarks across the US are reopening after being shut down for several weeks. New York’s Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon in Arizona were closed after the federal budget impasse in September caused the closure of the country’s National Parks. The two landmarks have reached deals with the federal government while Mount
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Try the Ecological Urbanism App
What did you think of the Ecological Urbanism book? If you need a reminder or never came across the big red book when it was published there is now an Ecological Urbanism App available. Check it out and let us know what you think.
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Landscapes from the Darenth Valley
Landscapes from the Darenth Valley Cristiana Angelini’s exhibition at Blackheath Halls This small exhibition in the café of the Blackheath halls was quite surprising. Cristiana’s paintings have an original point of view about the landscape. As we usually see pictures or paintings of beautiful and wide-open landscapes Cristiana has another perception of the landscape. The
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Landscape internship of the week
Nine year-long internships open with Morris Arboretum Date: 6/17/2013 – 6/6/2014 Type: Other Location(s): Pennsylvania Description:The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, a 166-acre premier public garden in Philadelphia, has openings for nine year-long interns. Positions are open in education, urban forestry, plant protection, plant propagation, arboriculture, botany, horticulture, and the rose and flower garden. For more details
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Banksy’s mobile garden follows Smithson’s land art
Street artist Banksy has created a mobile garden that is being driven around New York City. Is this a reinterpretation of Robert Smithson’s Floating Island?
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Did you win? Landscape Awards announced
The ASLA (the American Society of Landscape Architects) announces the winners of its 2013 Awards. Of particular interest was the winner of the research award for the Green Roof Innovation Technology (GRIT) Laboratory. Congratulations to our friends and colleagues at the University of Toronto.
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