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| Landscape Architecture
First Year Appraising Landscapes trip to Wistley and Ravensgate Hills in the Cotswolds Last week the students were led on an introductory tour around the immediate urban locality of Francis Close Hall campus. This took in a range of built…
Carmen Fiol and her partner Andreu Arriola of Arriola & Fiol Arquitectes in Barcelona gave the second John Simpson Memorial Lecture this year. Their presentation was titled “Water, Topography & City Construction” and focused on their award-winning project Parc Central de…
Landscape Issues has been reborn. This journal, produced by the landscape architecture course and first published in the 1980s through to the 90s, has re-appeared in online format (at www.landscapeissues.com) and in hard-copy print. It is our intention to use…
Arthur Daw, former Conversion course student, has helped set up the What Happens Next? project in Bristol, with the aim of inspiring school children to grow, make and celebrate food. They are currently working with 25 youth clubs in Bristol.…
On RTE, award-winning duo Seán Duke and Colette Kinsell, present a new explorative series that looks at the ethics of how we live today. This weeks episode is ‘Designing Happiness’. One of the issues they discuss is the role of biophilic…
On a very wet Wednesday 8th October, with dramatic weather to match the drama of the scenery, the Postgraduate Landscape Planning students visited the Forest of Dean for a briefing from the Client (Nigel Gibbons and Alastair Chapman of the…
Last Thursday’s trip to the beautiful Cotswold countryside was a collaboration between our Appraising Landscapes and Sustainable Technology 1 modules. Following a section of the Cotswold Way, our First Year students were introduced to the methods of appraising the character…
To kick off the 3rd year Landscape and Community project Scott Farlow, the module tutor, has written a manifesto – available here … AD6601ConsiderThisManifesto
We were blessed with glorious weather on Tuesday’s field trip to Lightmoor, deep in the Forest of Dean. This former colliery site is the focus of Sustainable Technology 2, a module exploring the environmental development of a brownfield, contaminated landscape…