Michael Jakob is a Swiss scholar who teaches history and theory of landscape at the Accademia di Mendrisio, the Politecnico di Milano, and Grenoble University. His research explores landscape aesthetics, perception, vertigo, and ways of seeing. Jakob also curates exhibitions and produces documentary films. He has authored influential books such as Le Paysage, Paysage et temps, The Swiss Touch in Landscape Architecture, The Bench in the Garden, Faux Mountains, L’architettura del paesaggio, Paysage et technologie, and Seeds of Knowledge. He is the editor of the book series “di monte in monte.” His work bridges theory, literature, and landscape culture with a poetic sensibility.
“I have always been surprised by this lack of theory — and of history as well. Even prominent colleagues of ours can hardly name five masterworks essential for them … This means that some professionals work in the field without fully knowing what they do when they claim to practice landscape architecture.”
The 4th Symposium of the Istituto di Studi Urbani e del Paesaggio (ISUP), titled Landscape As Architecture, took place in Mendrisio, Switzerland, from November 13 to 15, 2024. Previous editions in the series explored themes of Climate Urbanism, Scale, and Density. Out of over 250 submissions, the curators, Jonathan Sergison, João Nunes, and João Gomes […]
The Harvard Graduate School of Design organized a two-day conference titled Forest Futures: Will the Forest Save Us All? It is open to the public and available via streaming. Planetary survival in the Anthropocene crucially depends on the stewardship of resilient forest ecosystems worldwide—at the scales of wilderness, planted forests, metropolitan tracts, and the urban […]
As part of the annual IFLA Europe conference, the Finnish Landscape Architects Association MARK organised the Landscape Architects Day 2022 under the motto “Boldness and Beauty”. This alone can be called bold. MARK today has about 300 members and was formed in 1997 from the hard-won merger of the two associations SMAFLA and MAL, which […]
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