In the conversation with the landscape architecture professor, artist and writer Denise Hoffman Brandt, we speak about the morality issues attached to “doing good” while debunking Ian McHarg’s problematic position in Design with Nature. In the conversation, Brandt points out how our assumptions about nature shape our actions, why stewardship is problematic and what landscape […]
Barcelona launches an international ideas competition for young architects to transform 10 dividing walls and improve its public space. – The call, made jointly with UNESCO and the International Union of Architects, is the first step towards the World Capital of Architecture 2026 and is part of the legacy that the event will leave in […]
Members of the LILA 2024 Jury, Catherine Mosbach, Joost Emmerik, Lilli Lička, Lisa Diedrich, and Zaš Brezar selected projects for the 9th edition of LILA. Editors of Landezine selected the LILA Honour Award, LILA Office Award and LILA Portfolio Award. Landezine congratulates all the recognized practices and thanks the members of the jury, all participants […]
This summer, throughout Switzerland, you can attend the curated observation of the ongoing phenomenon of glaciers melting. Art installations, performances and exhibitions, scattered about the Alpine landscape, are informed by this exclusive moment in climate history that will forever change our landscapes. The melting progresses with the proportion of the loss of albedo surface. Although […]
FOREST ENCOUNTERS: short stories, flash fiction, poetry, essays The European cooperation project FOREST ENCOUNTERS is looking for representations of different encounters with the forest from both human and non-human perspectives. The FOREST ENCOUNTERS project explores and proposes diverse imaginaries, concepts, and practices around the following questions: What and how can we learn with and through […]
Cycling has become an essential component of landscape design as people looked for alternative modes of transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic. This shift highlighted cycling as a viable option, which offers various health benefits and promotes healthier lifestyles. The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes numerous benefits of cycling, which includes improved public health and a […]
In the talk, Lydia Kallipoliti – #architect #educator #researcher #thinker – presents her newly published book Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia, followed by a Q&A where we talk about the intentions of writing the book, about how the “waste speaks of the incomplete perception of the World”, the psychological profile of ecological designers and […]
PennPraxis by Weitzman School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania invites you to apply for an award to participate in Case Studies in Design, a collective writing and thinking project that will create opportunities for community and design leaders to think together about ways to catalyze transformational design, planning, and place-keeping from the ground up. […]
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche offers landscape study scholarships on a yearly basis to support young graduates who wish to carry out research into the landscape and gardens culture and in the field of the care of places. The scholarships focus on three thematic areas which correspond to the cultural profile and field of activity of […]
Charles Birnbaum is the CEO and founder of TCLF—The Cultural Landscape Foundation. In his work, he is a fearless advocate and activist for significant American landscape architecture sites. He was honored as a 2020 LILA Honour Award Winner for initiating and developing TCLF for over 25 years with an “innovative vision, executed with great precision, […]
The City of Stuttgart launched The international ideas contest “Space for Ideas”. A total prize money of 30,000 euros is available. Anyone can participate – from individuals to enterprises, from students and schoolchildren to clubs and associations. All ideas are welcome. In particular, participation by international organisations are welcome, so all information will also be […]
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has opened a call for nominations for Landslide, the foundation’s annual thematic report about threatened and at-risk landscapes. Landslide 2024: Demonstration Grounds will focus on sites associated with demonstrations and movements. “These multiple associations are waiting to be unlocked at almost every historic property or cultural landscape that has served […]
Open Landscape Academy invites you to join an online seminar from April 3 to June 2 on Democratic Landscape Transformation. The seminar focuses on building a prototype collaborative model that “engages academic and local knowledge, professionalism and creativity, giving privilege to the perspectives of the historically underserved communities who have not had access to landscape […]
Call for papers for the symposium LANDSCAPE AS ARCHITECTURE Istituto di Studi Urbani e del Paesaggio (ISUP)Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio, Switzerland 13th, 14th and 15th November 2024 Landscape architecture is a powerful tool for addressing issues that have generally been neglected in architectural research and practice until recently.Innovative methodological approaches inherent to the multidisciplinary […]
Sh*tscapes is a 160-page book by London-based landscape architects Vladimir Guculak and Paul Bourel. They are also founders of studio gb, landscape architecture and design studio focused on the integration of nature into the city.
A post-industrial park is typically a sexy landmark, easy to make a story of, photogenic, and a palimpsest in itself. It presents a victory of public use over the private and industrial by opening previously closed-off spaces. A post-industrial park offers some crucial topics of remediation, adaptive reuse, and social integration, among others. For a […]
Felixx is organizing a handful of events, accompanying the New European Bauhaus Festival. Read more about their AGENDA apply for events and more. Want to know about the power of Nature-Based Solutions? Felixx invites you to a webinar performed by Eduardo Marin Salinas. “More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and that number […]
Capital city Podgorica announces a public call for conceptual design of the Forest Park in Lješkopoljska Gorica in Podgorica. This Competition aims to achieve a comprehensive vision for the Forest Park Gorica that, through the transformation of underutilized spaces and innovative landscape-architectural solutions, will support the existing green infrastructure and drive the future vision for […]
KERB Journal, a student-led landscape architecture publication produced by RMIT University in Melbourne, is interested in expressions of interest (EOI) for submission that speak to the UNSAID, within but also expanding beyond the discipline of landscape architecture. They are seeking a Max 200-word abstract, EOI’s will be received by COB 28 April 2024. Key examples […]
The Cultural Landscape Foundation is organizing a conversation with Kongjian Yu, 2023 Oberlander Prize laureate, and Pieter Schengenga, director of H+N+S Landscape Architects, the Netherlands, moderated by Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, University of Virginia. You can register for virtual participation on the 30th of April, from 10:00 – 11:15 AM ET. “Climate change is accelerating […]
IFLA GSP is a first step into integrating global landscape architecture academia. The program ties together 4 charettes associated with major LA events across 4 IFLA regions with the objective of research and development regarding the LA future leadership and a global network of LA education institutions. The LA events will take place during Autumn […]
Registrations for the Landscape Forum 2024, organised by LE:NOTRE Institute and ECLAS, are now open. Forum will take place in Tartu, Estonia, from June 24 – 28, 2024, hosted by the Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU). The focus topic is The Landscape as the Container of the Bioeconomy, with working groups on water, forests, fibrescapes, […]
Observed as a recurring phenomenon in nature and universally interpreted, the circle stands as a fundamental geometric shape. It symbolizes various concepts such as infinity and unity, among others. In constructed environments, the focal or central point of a circle can be represented by a tree as the axis mundi, a fire pit or an […]
Submission Deadline May 26, 2024, at 23.59 (GMT) “Earth is experiencing an unprecedented rate of change. We are living with ‘Code Red’. The scaleless and boundless nature of environmental crises, along with irreversible degradation in terrestrial, atmospheric, and aquatic environments, pose harm to all living beings and their habitats. A considerable amount of the world’s […]
Migration, a global phenomenon, has increasingly resulted in the displacement of communities and the proliferation of temporary and permanent refugee and migrant encampments. The precariousness of people’s health is affected by the lack of water and food sources, considerably escalating the vulnerability of these human groups and the rise of psychosocial problems. To address these […]
IFLA Europe organizes a 3rd online event ‘Talk with Prof Ása L. Aradóttir on Restoration of native woodlands and sustainable forestry, on the 22nd of March 2024 at 13h CET Registration is required in advance for this event by following this link. The guest in this third Talk is Prof Ása L. Aradóttir, Professor, Department […]
Following an appointment by Bromley Council to lead the first phase of its Crystal Palace Park Regeneration Plan, HTA Design has revealed initial plans for the park, including the restoration of the beloved Grade-I listed dinosaur sculptures, amongst other significant upgrades. This will form part of the wider plan to reinstate the Grade-II* listed park, […]
New European Bauhaus organizes a festival with workshops, lectures and fairs on 9-13 April in Brussels. You can join to watch the Festival online or attend Satellite events across Europe and beyond. Location: Brussels, Parc du Cinquantenaire and the Arts & History Museum, online, or attend a Satellite Event from Europe and beyond. During interactive […]
Mar 13, 2024, at 5 – 6:15pm CET Online Available Register Now “The threatened demolition of Mary Miss’ pioneering and influential site-specific installation Greenwood Pond: Double Site in the permanent collection of the Des Moines Art Center is the impetus for a 75-minute webinar about the significance and importance of land art by women artists. […]
When we speak of Nature in cities, the question we want to stress is, is nature in cities natural or in fact an artefact? When we speak of natural processes, they of course take place but apart from spontaneous nature, left to random succession, emerging in spaces that Gilles Clément calls the third landscapes, there […]
IFLA has opened its call for nominations for various positions within it’s Executive Committee. This year we are holding World Level elections for: – President– Treasurer– Standing Committee Chair on Communications and External Relations– Standing Committee Chair on Education and Academic Affairs– Standing Committee Chair on Professional Practice and Policy The call for nominations start […]
The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona announces the 12th edition of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, which is open for entries from 5 March to 16 April 2024. The Prize promotes debate about urban responses to challenges such as climate emergency, the increase in inequalities and the impact of technological transformations. Exceptionally, […]
European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools calls for nominations for outstanding achievements in the educational process until 31 March. In order to support the highest standards of landscape architecture education and research and to raise the awareness of scholarship in landscape architecture ECLAS bestows annual awards for outstanding performances by teachers, researchers and students. ECLAS […]
From 23 until 26 September 2024, over the course of four days, more than 3000 experts from around the world will share their passion and knowledge about the liveable green city with a future here. The Future Green City World Congress is an initiative of Royal Association Stadswerk the Netherlands and Royal Dutch society for […]
Awarded the prestigious 2023-2024 International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens, the Espacio Escultórico in Pedregal de San Ángel, Mexico City, is celebrated for its blend of art, nature, and history. This accolade, orchestrated by the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, shines a spotlight on spaces that embody extraordinary qualities of creativity, historical depth, and natural particularities. […]
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, have revealed the seven finalists that will compete for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards, 5 in the Architecture category and 2 in the Emerging category. The jury considers that the 7 finalist works encourage and become […]
HPO is an art and event-architecture group from Ferrara. Their work has been, among other venues, presented at Milan Design Week and 18. Venice Biennale.
In the interview, we discuss the marginal position, DIY, incomplete architecture and the importance of play.
Landezine talks to Andre Dekker, who, together with Ruud Reutelingsperger, Lieven Poutsma and Geert van de Camp, forms a public art collective Observatorium. In the video, Dekker gives a 30-minute-long presentation of some of Observatorium’s most recent and most important works. Their artworks traverse the realms of urban planning, landscape design, architectural innovation, and artistic […]
The American Society of Landscape Architects invites you to apply for the Professional and Student Awards. Registration deadline is February 23, submission deadline is March 15. You can apply in different categories, Professional Awards include General Design, Residential Design, Urban Design, Analysis & Planning, Communications, and Research categories. In each of these categories, juries select a […]
Soundscapes The experience of silence and sound in the landscape International Landscape Study Days Thursday 22-Friday 23 February 2024, Treviso and online Friday 16 February 2024, from 5 pm, online preview The 20th edition of the International Landscape Study Days, organised by Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, will be held in Treviso (at the Palazzo Bomben […]
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 […]
Tim Waterman is Professor of Landscape Theory and Inter-Programme Collaboration Director at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He is Chair of the Landscape Research Group (LRG), a Non-Executive Director of the digital arts collective Furtherfield, and an advisor to the Centre for Landscape Democracy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is also […]
Mies van der Rohe Award, a European Union Prize for contemporary architecture, announced 40 shortlisted projects in programs including Collective Housing, Cultural and Educational Building, Food & Accommodation, Government & Civic, Health, Industry, Infrastructure, Landscape, Mixed use, Single house, Sport & Leisure, Ephemeral and Urban planning. The 7 members of the jury – Frédéric Druot, […]
In this interview, Zaš Brezar talks to Prof. Dr. Lisa Diedrich, the winner of LILA 2023 Honour Award. She speaks about her professional development throughout the years and specifically about being a ‘straddler’ between professional practice and academia. She references several books and projects that inspire her as a landscape architect, architect, journalist and especially […]
Landezine met with Taktyk at the XII Barcelona International Landscape Biennial in November 2023, at the same place where we made the first interview, seven years ago. Taktyk’s work is a collage of collaborations showing sensitivity to the site, tackling its most vulnerable spots. Sébastien Penfornis and Thierry Kandjee seek through prospective visions, on-site works […]
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PROJECTS – 2024 IFLA WORLD CONGRESS ‘CODE RED’ FOR EARTH Earth is experiencing an unprecedented rate of change. We are all living with ‘Code Red’. The scaleless and boundless nature of environmental crises creates an irreversible degradation in terrestrial, atmospheric, and aquatic environments that harm all living and their habitats. A […]
The XII Barcelona International Landscape Biennal – The Poetics of Remediation was organised by The Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC), The Oficina de Paisatge, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and Nature-based Solutions (NbS-BCN) from the 24th to the 28th of November. Several speakers presented their projects and research in a rich event programme, accompanied by the […]
Landezine team congratulates MASU Planning for winning the award! PRESS: H.C. Andersen’s Have by MASU Planning is the winner of the Danish Landscape Prize 2023. The prize is DKK 50,000 and is awarded by ‘Danske Arkitektvirksomheder’, ‘Park- og Naturforvalterne’ and ‘Danske Landskabsarkitekter’. MASU Planning wins Danish Landscape Award 2023 for ‘H.C. Andersen’s Have’, located in […]
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