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 years’ study in European Master…
Read MoreJohn Lonsdale & Paul Roncken 14.10.2014
The next How Do You Landscape? lectures on ‘Urban by Nature’ 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 MoreOerol 2014 – location, process and project
The location The chair of Landscape Architecture of the Delft University of Technology is for the fourth time contributing to the Oerol festival – 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…
Read MoreMarc Treib & Cees van der Veeken 17.6.2014
Our next couple of How Do You Landscape? lectures is again framed by the subject ‘Urban by Nature’. 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 ‘How do You Landscape?’ we…
Read MoreUrban by Nature? Mountains in your back yard
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 ‘taming’ it. The relation with nature has been the subject of…
Read MoreZeeheldentuin definitely
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…
Read MoreA study of Polders in Felt
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.…
Read MorePrinciples of Landscape Architecture
“To discover and reveal the deeper substrate of the landscape is something the natural sciences alone cannot accomplish.” – Günther 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…
Read MoreTopos – the nature of the Dutch landscape
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…
Read MoreExuberant and Triumphant
With the Year of the Historic Estate behind us I can safely make two confessions. The first, which I would term only half an admission, involves the presumptuous idea that I can claim some kind of clandestine spiritual right of ownership to Castle Groeneveld, because of memories that stretch back many more years than those…
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