To close this semester two exceptional How Do You Landscape? lectures are coming up next week: Dr. Klaske Havik is a associate professor of Architecture, Methods and Analysis at TU Delft. She studied architecture with specialization landscape in Delft and Helsinki, and literary writing in Amsterdam. At Delft University of Technology, she teaches and…
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Flowscapes. Designing infrastructure as landscape
Social, cultural and technological developments of our society are demanding a fundamental review of the planning and design of its landscapes and infrastructures, in particular in relation to environmental issues and sustainability. Transportation, green and water infra structures are important agents that facilitate processes that shape the built environment and its contemporary landscapes. With…
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Zeeheldentuin Starts Hague Spring
This week-end the Zeeheldentuin – a organic community garden in The Hague was officially opened with a festive act. From today on it is open every day for neighbors and interested visitors. The opening was started with the novel sport discipline ‘allotment garden race’ to distribute around ninety gardens to their new owners. Around noon…
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20.2.2012 lecture on the work of Piet Oudolf
See you there! Please note: The lecture and the masterclass have been initiated by a group of students of the faculty and is encouraged and supported by the Chair of Landscape Architecture. We feel thankful to share this announcement here and invite our students, staff and interested public with great gratitude towards…
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DGJ designs top-10 garden for Vincent van Gogh in Appeltern
The Netherlands’ largest and most beautiful Garden Idea Park – Appeltern chose a design of my practice DGJ Architects & Landscapes as hommage to Vincent van Gogh. The garden information park Appeltern has been laid out in a way that will give you inspiration and help you with your own garden. A walk through the…
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Dikes in perspective
The dike as a landscape element takes on many shapes [1]. Depending on their form and location, dikes determine the ‘face’ of the Dutch polder landscape. Of course vegetation, land allotment and building development patterns also play an important role. Yet dikes are vital to the landscape’s appearance: apart from their form and location, their…
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TU experimental garden
Last summer students of the Master track Landscape Architecture of the TU Delft could follow a summer course in the Tuinen Mien Ruys in Dedemsvaart, made possible by a generous subsidy of the NHBos Foundation. It was a hands-on workshop in a real life situation addressing the practical skill of planting design, a basic skill for any landscape…
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