Photographs have been taken at the gardens of Versailles, on February 2015. They accompany the Slovenian translation of the tiny but marvellous book Portret srečnega človeka – André le Nôtre 1613–1700 (Portrait d’un home heureux – André le Nôtre 1613–1700), translated from French by Zoja Skušek, *cf., 2016, written by a renown French author Érik Orsenna, who, among other things, for five years presided L’ École nationale supérieure du paysage at Versailles.
During all the media coverage—particularly in the United States—of Hurricanes Harvey (Category 4, 17 August-1 September), Irma (Category 5, 30 August-12 September), Jose (Category 4, 5-22 September) and Maria (Category 5, 16-30 September), the flooding and subsequent trail of destruction in Houston and southeast Texas, South Florida and the Caribbean, there was ceaseless talk of […]
H+N+S introduces Hank van Tilborg (1972), who has been working at H+N+S since 2006 and became a partner and member of the management team in 2011. His expertise lies in making strong conceptual designs and their translation into sensitive, detailed plans. Hank writes and publishes work on a regular basis and was a member of […]
After being raised both in Paris and India, Olivier Philippe studied landscape design at the ‘Ecole Supérieure d’Architecture des Jardins et des Paysages ‘ after which he joined the ‘École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts’ in Paris. He later graduated as a landscape architect from the ‘École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles ‘ (ENSP). His […]
OMGEVING won LILA Landezine International Landscape Award 2017, Public Choice Award in ‘office’ category. Luc Wallays, director of OMGEVING presented their projects at Landezine LIVE, September 29th, 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Nørreport Station in Copenhagen by COBE, Gottlieb Paludan Architects and Bartenbach won LILA Public Choice Award. Thomas Krarup (COBE) presented Nørreport Station and also several other projects by COBE at the second Landezine LIVE on September 29th, 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Director at T.C.L. – Taylor Cullity Lethlean, BLArch MDes Urban Design PhD RMIT Adjunct Professor RMIT University FAILA ASLA Perry is internationally recognised as a leading contemporary landscape architect and urban designer. His work is widely published, particularly his successful entries for major national and international design competitions including the National Arboretum in Canberra and […]
Klaske Havik is associate professor of Architecture, Methods&Analysis at Delft University of Technology. She has developed a distinct research approach relating questions about the use, experience and imagination of place, to literary language. Her book Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture (2014) proposes a literary approach to architecture, landscape and urbanism, introducing the three notions […]
A plea to redefine the discipline`s position. Extreme changes in ecological systems, rapidly growing megacities, industrial pollution, massive exploitation of non-renewable resources – these issues are not new phenomena and have been addressed since the 1970s. Sadly, even today, as the impact of our actions has reached a new peak, national selfishness, the refusal to […]
More and more, experts worldwide recommend „GI“ as the best remedy for all kinds of unwelcome side-effects related to current changes in the environment such as climate change, agricultural revolution, urban transformation and so on. Within the strategy “Europe 2020”, the EU for example wants to enhance Europe’s natural capital1, and the board of the […]
Here’s a nice photo essay based on the projects by H+N+S. Using aerial photography it introduces a kind of a distant view or a critical angle, quietly re-questioning shapes and programmes they had put on the ground.
Landezine met with Taktyk just after the 9th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona on October 1st 2016. Taktyk is a practice of investigation that is being run by architect and urbanist Sebastien Penfornis and Thierry Kandjee, landscape architect and urbanist. Landezine: What is Taktyk’s main focus, how do you approach projects? Kandjee: Our […]
The lecture was recorded at the first Landezine LIVE on January 20th, 2017 in the Old Power Station in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Jenny B. Osuldsen, graduated with a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 1991 and has also studied landscape architecture and art at Cal Poly University Pomona, Los […]
Martí Franch gave speech at the first Landezine LIVE that took place at the Old Power Station in Ljubljana, Slovenia on January 20th 2017. He also received the first LILA – Landezine International Landscape Award. Martí Franch, Landscape Architect by the University of Greenwich and Horticulturalist by ETSAB in Barcelona, is the founder & principal […]
Antje Stokman gave a speech at the first Landezine LIVE that took place at the Old Power Station in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on January 20th 2017. Antje Stokman is a landscape architect and professor of landscape planning and ecology. After graduation in 2000, she worked on several international projects with Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten and has been […]
Martin Rein-Cano is founder of a Berlin based landscape architecture practice Topotek 1. Their Superkilen project was recently awarded with Aga Khan Award.
How can we motivate house dwellers and public space designers to apply appropriate adaptation measures in the city? What can help people to take first steps toward implementation? Our assumption was that a new smartphone app could be useful.
Hargreaves Associates’ Queen Elisabeth Olympic Park in London won the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize at the International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona on the 30th of September 2016. The project was selected from a shortlist of ten finalists. The Public Opinion Prize was voted by the attendees …
In June, the US Landscape Architecture Foundation convened a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania entitled “The New Declaration: A Summit on Landscape Architecture”.
More than 40 years ago artist Christo developped the idea for the Floating Piers. After he found Lago d’Iseo in Northern Italy being the perfect place for this work, it went quick. More than 1.3 Million people had a striking haptic and visual experience walking on the orange Nylon tissue across the lake.
Michael van Gessel is a Dutch landscape architect, a renowned figure in the global community of landscape architecture, whose projects we are most proud to feature on Landezine. We met with Mr. van Gessel at the 8th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona, in September 2014, where he was the president of the Jury for the Rosa Barba Prize. His work as a landscape architect is based on a very subtle and simple, yet determined, intervention in landscape. As he puts it: “With minimum effort for a maximum effect.”
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