â⊠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.â[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 canât 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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The chair of Landscape Architecture invites you to a new series of lectures in How-Do-You-Landscape tradition entitled âSCAPESâ. This series continues the direction of the HDYL lectures, this time focusing on specific 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…
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Dear Colleagues at Delft. A postcard greeting just to let you know, that I am working hard on my PhD ‘architecture with landscape methods’ in my own designed mountain retreat in the upper Rhine valley of the Swiss Alps. Perfect condions up here in Pigniu. Pulver, gut, 0 Grad, wechselnd bewölkt. Heading full spead ahead…
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The chair of Landscape Architecture is inviting you to a new series of events as part of our How-Do-You-Landscape lecture series â the HDYL Film Night. Films are an exceptional communication middle to build narratives, document positions and transfer knowledge in an entertaining way. Dovetailing in with the lecture series, the screenings will address themes…
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Roads and landscape The road in the landscape is a  multi-faceted subject, as we could read in the previous posts by Gerdy Verschuure and Steffen Nijhuis. Driving as a means to experience the landscape is one of these aspects, which sometimes has been exalted to an art in itself. When traveling through the United States,…
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Routes are important operative structures in landscape architecture because they play a crucial role in mediating or facilitating the use and reception of (designed) landscapes. Routes are the âsilent guides of the strollerâ and facilitate the primordial act of walking as an aesthetic and social practice. The shape of a walk refers not only to…
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During the last six month, the discussion on the cutting off trees next to Dutch N-roads, provincial roads, was intensified. It started as a âsoftâ rule in the âHandboek Wegontwerp 2013â which was published by the knowledge platform CROW, which stated that a tree should be planted away from the road for at least four…
Read MoreThe interest in public spaces has always been in the focus of researchers and practitioners of urban design1. As we can see from the book Public Spaces Urban Places (Carmona et al., 2010) they can be approached from various dimensions: morphological, perceptual, visual, social, functional, and temporal. For many reasons, public spaces are very important…
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From November 5 up to and including November 19, 2015 the Institute of Poldering shows in BK-expo. At the opening event a booklet with the results of the course has been presented. The booklet can also be downloaded as pdf from TU Delft Repository. An impression of the ‘AR0048 – Landscape architecture ON site’ projects…
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