The dike as a landscape element takes on many shapes [1]. Depending on their form and location, dikes determine the âfaceâ of the Dutch polder landscape. Of course vegetation, land allotment and building development patterns also play an important role. Yet dikes are vital to the landscapeâs appearance: apart from their form and location, their…
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Last summer students of the Master track Landscape Architecture of the TU Delft could follow a summer course in the Tuinen Mien Ruys in Dedemsvaart, made possible by a generous subsidy of the NHBos Foundation. It was a hands-on workshop in a real life situation addressing the practical skill of planting design, a basic skill for any landscape…
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In today’s HowDoYouLandscape? lecture Minjie Si  Co-founder of X.SCAPE a former director of Studio X at Turenscape on Three elements of water urbanism Minjie Si is an Alumna of TU Delft 2006-2008, from times before the Master Track Landscape Architecture. She was educated in a traditional architecture school from Shanghai Tongji University, however two yearsâ study in European Master…
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The next How Do You Landscape? lectures on âUrban by Natureâ are coming up next week: John Lonsdale is an Architect who studied at the AA in London and won the Prix de Rome for Landscape Architecture and Urbanism for his work Shifting Horizons: Towards a non-Deterministic Urbanism in 2001. In 2004 he established his…
Read MoreThe location The chair of Landscape Architecture of the Delft University of Technology is for the fourth time contributing to the Oerol festival â Sense of Place. This year we are located on the Eastern part of Terschelling, at Kaapsduin. Kaapsduin is part of a dune complex which has been stabilized by planting natural vegetation…
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Our next couple of How Do You Landscape? lectures is again framed by the subject âUrban by Natureâ. 2014 is the summer of the the International Architecture Biennale IABR ‘URBAN BY NATURE’, curated by the Prof. Dirk Sijmons, the chair of Landscape Architecture at TU Delft. With the focus of âHow do You Landscape?â we…
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Many people know the overwhelming feeling of peace and admiration one experiences overlooking a canyon, snow capped mountains, sunset at the beach or tumbling waterfalls. Our relationship with nature is of all times and ranges from worshiping the gods of nature to overcoming or âtamingâ it. The relation with nature has been the subject of…
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De Zeeheldentuin is definitely designed – This week a group of volunteer students and professionals of Landscape Architecture under my guidance as a teacher and practitioner finished the definitive design of De Zeeheldentuin. For the last six months we met almost every Monday in our studio DGJ Architects & Landscapes in The Hague, around the…
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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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âTo discover and reveal the deeper substrate of the landscape is something the natural sciences alone cannot accomplish.â â GĂŒnther Voght The Department of Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment, TU Delft considers urbanism as a planning and design oriented activity towards urban and rural landscapes.[1] It aims to enhance, restore or…
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