In February 2013, MSc students of Landscape Architecture were taken to the Nieuwland Museum in Leystad for a three day workshop, led by an artist. Cora Jongsma, who has worked extensively with felt, introduced students to the fascinating similarities between two seemingly incongruent occurrences: the creation of felt from wool and the creation of polders.…
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From all over the world master students come to the TU in Delft to study. Of the 24 students of the master track urban landscape architecture there are 15 students from abroad, mostly Asian, but also a few other nationalities. They come from cities like Bangkok and have to settle in a small town like…
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The Institute of Place Making finds out and makes visible what the notion of place is about and how it evolves. It will do this by mapping, categorising and analysing feedback of visitors and inhabitants on their experience with Terschellings’ landscape and places. The results will be returned through a website with a map…
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This year the chair of Landscape Architecture of the Delft University of Technology is for the third time annually contributing to Oerol. The project, named “Landscape Architecture ON Site, Being Part of Oerol 2013,” will be constructed on the festival site – the island of Terschelling. The aim of the project is to express the…
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“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.” This quote of Rudolf Arnheim was the starting point of the 4 hour mapping workshop for graduate students [1]. Two landscape types, graphite, paper, cups and silverwork were the means to explore mapping as a tool in landscape architecture. The…
Read MoreOur Growing Island at Oerol 2012 with it’s Design & Build Expedition Team (from foreground to background): Ole & Daniel Jauslin (Son & Lecturer TU Delft Landscape Architecture ), Nikolaos Margaritis , Anna Iannidou, Roel Muselaers , Marc Souverein, Beatrice Reinbacher, Michiel van der Drift, Lisanne van Niekerk (Master Students TU Delft Landscape Architecture)…
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After 5 days of hard work in the Garden our 7 students accomplished as it was planned, with help of some visitors and generous support by our hosts Oerol and Centrum voor Natuur en Landschap. Now still 8 of 10 days of Oerol Festival to build a Wadden Sea island with sand and wind in…
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This week a group of 13 Master Students of Landscape Architecture from TU Delft went on Expedition over the Wadden Sea to discover the Landscape of Terschelling and it’s curious and inspiring artistic producers of Oerol Festival. Oerol – meaning everywhere in Terschelling’s Friesian dialect- is an annual festival of landscape or site-specific theatre and…
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Surrealistic Games with Layered Landscapes Exhibition opening Rotterdam April 20th 2012 & Book presentation Dutch Architecture with Landscape Methods Vol.3 This week we will have the final review of an student research laboratory ‘Design Analysis’ that I have been teaching with Matthew Skjonsberg (West 8) since february this year at Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst (RAvB).…
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