Whatever happened to the garden? “The art of the garden is dead,” pronounced the French garden designer Achille Duchêne in 1937. Was it? And is it now? If we take the thriving industry around experience and lifestyle, where the garden coexists happily with watches, kitchens and interiors, it is alive and kicking. But it is…
Read MoreIf Australian landscape architects are still wrestling with the question which animal to adopt as their mascot they can call off their quest. Scientific research helps them to make their final choice. The Great Bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis, native to Australia) presents itself as the best choice. The great Bowerbird not only builds a bower as…
Read More
Wij zijn uitgenodigd voor een huwelijksfeest in de Kleine Rug, een schiereiland naast een groot drinkwater-spaarbekken aan de noordoost rand van Dordrecht. Het is januari – 8 graden Celsius warm en het regent. Wij gaan met de fiets en volgen zo ver dat mogelijk is het water in de Delta. Zelf wonen wij wel op…
Read MoreSometimes a blog should be daily news, like today, January 11, 2012. On my first Google search quest in today’s researching I stumbled on this beauty of a typographical landscape (Google). The (letter) types beautifully cut open the strata that compose the architecture of a landscape. Michiel Pouderoijen dug up (googled?) that this layered 3d…
Read More
“People feel better outside than inside”. “People feel better in the park/woods/nature than in the city”. These are some of the conclusions from a project with the telling title ‘Mappiness’ Good news for landscape and Landscape Architecture on first sight. But are these only one-liners or firmly based scientific statements? Well, that depends on the…
Read More