In August we spent our summer vacation in Tuscany. The timeless splendour of the scenery combined with perfect weather conditions (unlimited sunshine and a continuous firm breeze) and the healthy cuisine is so appealing to the senses that we cannot resist it. This year we rented a summer house at the Villa d’Arceno, an extensive…
Read MoreDelights of Diversity
IFLA 2012: Delights of Diversity in CapeTown Last week the Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa and it’s Cape section hosted the 49th IFLA 2012 Conference in Cape Town. 500 Landscape Architects from around the world could not resist the temptation to travel to what some call ‘the most beautiful city on earth’. The…
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Heritagescapes & Energyscapes of Mongolia
The magnificent steppes always seem to be framed by mountain chains; wherever you move you experience a 360°of both space and enclosure. The gently flowing rivers cross carpet-like grass lands, on which cows, horses, sheep’s and buffalo’s are running freely and peacefully. Once in a while a group of two or three white round…
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Alumni’s Delta Plan awarded at Rio+20
The Delta Alliance Young Professionals Awarding ceremony at the Rio plus 20 honored TU Delft Landscape Architecture alumni Federico ‘Freddy’ Curiel on a global podium. Tonight, On Thursday, 21st of June in Rio, the Awarding ceremony of the Delta Alliance Young Professionals Award took place in the UNEP pavilion at the Rio plus 20 Conference…
Read MorePioneers on Newborn Wadden Sea Island
Our 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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TU Garden live at Oerol
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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From all-inclusive to heritage tourist
From 18 to 22 April this year, as a representative of the Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL) I attended the yearly meeting of the LE:NOTRE network in Antalya, Turkey. Under the name “LE:NOTRE Landscape Forum” the first of a new series of meetings was organized with the aim to encourage landscape specialists from many disciplines…
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Expedition Oerol started
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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(Ont)polderen
The Dutch have a rich tradition in creating polders, nowadays approximately 50% of the country consists of polder land. But the difficult and challenging task of land reclamation would never have been possible without a strong sense of solidarity and an urge for cooperation. That is the explanation most often heard for the historical origin…
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Guerrilla Landscaping
The necessity of being in contact with nature and actually ‘bringing it back’, the nature-based needs in big cities and suburbs seem to be increasing and have taken many forms over the last years. The fact urban citizens nowadays are more and more interested in having a bit of green nearby whether it is a…
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