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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DGJ has won a competition as landscape architect in the team of Meier Leder from Baden and Müller Sigrist Zurich – two agencies that are successful innovators in the design of collective housing. Together they have designed a neighborhood of nearly 160 new homes along the Limmat River, 20 km west of Zurich. http://www.dearchitect.nl/nieuws/2016/11/16/dgj-wint-prijsvraag-brisgi-in-baden.html
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Young Dr. Rudi van Ettegers sample of the designed Landscape Aesthetics of Walcheren under sensorial examination at Wageningen by Dr. Saskia de Wit from Delft.
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Rudi van Etteger Date: 10 November 2016 Time: 11:00 – 12:30 Location: Aula, building 362, Gen. Foulkesweg 1, Wageningen Dissertation title: Beyond the Visible. Prolegomenon to an aesthetics of designed landscapes Group: Wageningen University, Landscape Architecture Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. A. van den Brink and prof.dr. H.G.J. Gremmen Co-promotor: Dr. R.C.H.M. van Gerwen Abstract: In this thesis…
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The chair of Landscape Architecture invites you to a new colloquium series in the How Do You Landscape? sessions entitled “SCAPES”. This series focusses on urgent and emerging themes for spatial design, such as disasters and emergencies, co-creation, social justice and new technology. We invite leading academics and practitioners with contrasting or complementary views to…
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The new masters students of Landscape Architecture embarked upon the first of, what will soon be, many adventures studying the diverse dutch landscape. The first excursion took the students south from Delft and into the beautiful landscape of Limburg. Limburg offered an entirely different view of the dutch landscape, rolling hills and vineyards were the…
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A landscape architect for president. How about it? In the first part of this feuilleton this idea turned out to be not as far-fetched as it sounds…. All first American presidents were gardeners/farmers, using their own garden to experiment with and express their ideas on what the future America should be, with Thomas Jefferson as their champion. In…
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“… it may be said that Mr. Jefferson is the first American who has consulted the Fine Arts to know how he should shelter himself from the weather.”[1] A landscape architect for president. How about it? In Thomas Jefferson landscape architect. Part I this idea turned out to be not as far-fetched as it sounds…. All…
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In the present publicity excess on the American presidential elections, Trump versus Hillary, I can’t help fantasizing about the ideal president. What about a landscape architect for president? Well, it has been done before, and very successfully… Actually all first presidents were gardeners/farmers, using their own garden to experiment with and express their ideas on…
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