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New students to the landscape architecture course in Cheltenham have been introduced to the delights of the dérive. From the French and literally meaning ‘drifting’, the dérives we have undertaken have included wandering around the town centre during induction week…
The final year Landscape and Community module, this year based in Gloucester’s Tredworth ward, has had a significant impact on residents and local organisers in terms of their positive response to the many ideas generated by our students for improving…
In anticipation of a more detailed presentation on this blog and not wishing to preempt any specific highlights of the recent international trip to Italy, I have made a quick selection of my top ten memories and present them…
Although all university campuses were closed last week owing to the disruption caused by the heavy snowfall, landscape students normally scheduled to a Professional Practice session were instead given the task of building a landscape architect in the snow. Complete…
A Professional Practice talk given by Nick Rowson of Atkins, Bristol Following a brief résumé of his qualifications, the reasons for choosing his career path and early work experience, Nick went on to describe his thirty years at Atkins, a…
Mike Joffe came to the profession of landscape architecture by a different route from Dan Bowles who spoke last week (see previous blog entry). Dan completed the four year course at Cheltenham straight after leaving school. Mike by contrast first…
A Professional Practice talk given by Dan Bowles of MHP Dan, one of our recent graduates, gave a candid appraisal of his own landscape education here in Cheltenham where, he says, it is easy to dismiss the importance of some…
A visit to Gloucester: from the Cathedral to the Docks On Tuesday 30th of January, we had very inspiring visit of the city centre of Gloucester. The students of the module AD5602: Landscape Urbanism discovered the site of their projects…