| Landscape Architecture
| Landscape Architecture
This was an all day coach based trip as part of the induction week programme for new landscape students, going to Stourhead a large landscape park estate designed by Henry Hoare in 1750s, and Buscot Park Estate very much…
Yesterday the Appraising Landscapes class ventured into the wide open country of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, undertaking a five-mile walk which took us up the back-slope from Seven Springs (source of the Thames) onto Wistley Hill which…
Yesterday, 31st January 2023, the Appraising Landscapes class undertook some basic surveying practice on the front lawn of FCH campus. On our way there we spotted two interesting phenomena: one possibly disappearing from, the other becoming more common in the…
CONTACT [email protected] LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE SOUTH WEST The eventbrite booking links are below: BD Landscape Studio Tour – 03 Feb, 2pm – LISW Student Event – Studio Tour with BD Landscape Architects Tickets, Fri 3 Feb 2023 at 14:00 | Eventbrite Rappor…
According to Wikipedia, a dérive is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, on which the subtle aesthetic contours of the surrounding architecture and geography subconsciously direct the travellers, with the ultimate goal of encountering an entirely new and…
Our new first year students explored a part of the Cotswolds last week, partly to orientate themselves in the broader Gloucestershire landscape but also to study at close hand some features that make up the scene: local rocks and soil,…
For me, I suppose it’s the geology that makes the Forest of Dean unique. As an earth scientist, my interest is always fired by a knowledge of the strata underground and how that influences the surface relief. The Forest of…
For much of the time teaching Appraising Landscapes and Sustainable Technology to the current first year students, I have been banging my drum about the global climate emergency, advocating some of the founding principles of the Extinction Rebellion movement and…
We’ve been using Lightmoor as a project site for many years. Not because we can’t think of anywhere else to go but because it perfectly fits the bill in terms of its mining heritage which imbues the whole place with…