All different projects made during the workshop suggested a wide variety of solutions to address the assigned energy problem, combined with different spatial and aesthetic qualities. We might suggest that a common theme, looking at the different projects lies in the tension between two different conceptions of the periphery: ‘The landscape as an attractive image’…
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During the first week of September, a 4-day summer school program was held as part of the Landscape Triennial 2017 program located in the monumental Kleine Vennep Barn, in the area of the future Park 21, the municipality of Haarlemmermeer. The summer school comprises an international group of landscape architecture students from TU Delft, HAS…
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Exploration and interpretation of urban leftover spaces from the perspective of landscape architecture Leftover spaces are un-defined components of the city complementing to the ordered and functional urban spaces. This particularity makes them a relevant design subject. However, the design of leftover spaces poses a paradox between the frame of design and the spaces’ indeterminacy.…
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The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) represents the worldwide profession of Landscape Architecture. The Award Jury composed of a Landscape Architect from each of the five IFLA regions, and the Secretary General of ISOCARP (International Society of City and Regional Planners) who served as a guest member of the Jury, agreed with the nomination…
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An Alternative Approach for Urban Development in Low-Resource Settings New Towns in development across the African continent since 1990 are overwhelmingly designed and built according to urban planning models from the twentieth century. Although these typologies range from functionalist Chinese grids to American gated communities, the results are—with notable exceptions—New Towns with rigid physical infrastructure…
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At the end of the sprin semester of 2016/2017, the Landscape Graduation Exhibition 2017 showed the work of nineteen graduate students. The exhibition was officially opened on July 5th, 2017, by Berno Strootman.
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Following up former contributions of the chair of Landscape Architecture/TUDelft to the Oerol Festival we are this year developing our fifth project in the framework of Sense of Place – IOPM. The 2017 project has just been named; PIN(K) A PLACE – Disclosing Landscape. This year expedition project focus on Place and Perception and is…
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Kobe Macco and Lisa Troiano have won the Evariste-Mertens-Price 2016 with their office as the federation of swiss landscape architects BSLA recently announced. We are so proud of our former students and wish them all the best for the project in of the Grünfels-Area in Rapperswil and with their office in LINEA landscape I architecture…
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Thomas Jefferson, landscape architect. Part IV: Washington By now we know that the 45th president of the US is not somebody who is going to spend a whole lot of attention to the relation between state and landscape. Still, there remains much to learn from the landscape architect/president. The development of the nation’s capital shows…
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On the 22nd of november the Landscape Architecture master students went on another of many adventures. This time, the path led to Holwerd, a historical village in Friesland on the coast of the dynamic and beautiful Wadden Sea and to the island on the other side, Ameland. Being the biggest tidal area of the world,…
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