| Landscape Architecture
| Landscape Architecture
Last Friday (10th) the group visited the Illman Young practice in Cheltenham. Sue Illman is a former student of ours and a recent president of the Landscape Institute. Her practice embraces all kinds of work but they have a particular…
The City of London Corporation has launched an ideas competition to explore how smart technologies might enhance its green spaces. ‘Smart Green Spaces’ is the first competition of a three-part A Smarter City programme, aimed at maintaining the Square Mile’s global…
Most sessions of the module Professional Practice (AD5000) involve either a talk from an invited speaker or a visit to a local landscape practice. The aim is to give the students an insight into actual work practices in the 21st…
The IFLA Student Landscape Architecture Design Competition 2017 is now open. Titled “LANDSCAPES OF POWER: DESIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE” the deadline for entries is 12. September 2017. More details on their website here.
The gloscape blog now contains galleries showing student work from different years – the 3rd year/degree level images are now up here
Allan Mitchell, Course Leader for the undergraduate programme in Landscape Architecture here at UoG, visited Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University to meet their Landscape Architecture department and give a presentation to their students last year. Allan described it as an inspirational trip, and…
An important component of the Appraising Landscape module is learning about hydrology and the hydrologic cycle, not simply for an understanding of the science but to see how it can be applied in landscape architecture. It is well known that…
National Poetry Day was celebrated on Ravensgate Hill overlooking Cheltenham last week when our new first years on their second Appraising Landscapes field trip had ‘Up There’ by Ivor Gurney recited to them. Gurney (1890-1937), a local poet, drew much…
here The first public lecture of the year will be given by Rasmus Astrup of SLA, Copenhagen, on 11th October 2016. SLA are one of the most innovative landscape architecture practices in the world, and Rasmus Astrup is a partner in…