Repository. 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places is now online. The book, soon to be published by Nai 010 Publishers, is the result of over three years of intense collaboration within the framework of the European COST Action, Writing Urban Places, a diverse group of scholars in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture,…
Read MoreHidden Landscapes
This book aims at the landscape architecture of the contemporary enclosed garden as an expression of the genius loci, addressing the question of how the genius loci can be made accessible in the metropolitan landscape. If a garden – the classical means of expressing the landscape – is capable of expressing metropolitan conditions, then we…
Read MoreOEROL 2017 PIN(K) A PLACE – Disclosing Landscape
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…
Read MoreExuberant and Triumphant
With the Year of the Historic Estate behind us I can safely make two confessions. The first, which I would term only half an admission, involves the presumptuous idea that I can claim some kind of clandestine spiritual right of ownership to Castle Groeneveld, because of memories that stretch back many more years than those…
Read MoreOerol 2013 – The Project
The Institute of Place Making finds out and makes visible what the notion of place is about and how it evolves. It will do this by mapping, categorising and analysing feedback of visitors and inhabitants on their experience with Terschellings’ landscape and places. The results will be returned through a website with a map…
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