The School of Architecture BIAD is pleased to announce the 2012 lecture series, part of the Critical Design and International Studio Modules, supported by BIAD Research, The School of Architecture, the Trust Fund and MADE. The lectures are open to all staff and students of BCU and professionals in the region. Places are limited, and there is no charge. Please contact MADE to book a seat on http://www.made.org.uk/events
UNLESS NOTED BELOW, ALL LECTURES START AT 5.45PM, ARE IN THE EMMA JESSE PHIPPS LECTURE THEATRE AT BIAD, BCU, GOSTA GREEN AND ARE FOLLOWED BY WINE AND NIBBLES IN THE CAFE.
Programme:
01 February: Andrew Grant, From Safe European Homes to Wild Asian Landscapes.
8th February: Carl Steinitz, Public Participation in Landscape Planning: a Prognosis for the Future
15th February: Noël van Dooren, On Landscape, Time and Drawing
22nd February: Andrew Wilson, ”And the planting……? The loss of design rigour in our planting.”
29th February: Neil Porter, World Cities - Liveable Landscapes
7th March at 5.45pm: Peter Neal, Masterplanning big landscapes
7th March at 1.00pm (room 217 Gosta Green), Fruzsina Zelenák, Landscape design in Hungary
14th March: Paul Shepheard, Infrastructure
21st March: Ruth Morrow, Title tbc.
25th April: SueAnne Ware CANCELLED
2nd May: Jeppe Aagard Anderson, Cities are for people - urban form
9th May: Richard Weston, Transformations: designs from nature
16th May Robert Camlin
Full details below.
1st February: Andrew Grant, From Safe European Homes to Wild Asian Landscapes
Safe European Homes to Wild Asian landscapes
The potential of landscape architecture to connect people with the natural world explored through recent work of Grant Associates. We are interested in the relationship between the tamed urban landscapes of modern cities and the wildness of unspoilt landscapes. Our practice is very fortunate to be working on all scales of project from the design of the intimate domestic housing spaces such as the Stirlng prize winning Accordia in Cambridge through to the regional planning of a 100,000hectare national park in Malaysia, one of the last refuges for wild Tigers in mainland Asia.
The focus of the talk will be to describe the design process behind the Gardens By the Bay project in Singapore. Due for completion this year, this is a 54 hectare urban park that includes 2 hectares of air conditioned glasshouses, a collection of landmark landscape structures, the ‘Supertrees’ and a matrix of themed interpretation gardens exploring the ethnobotany and ecology of Singapore. The project has been identified as one of the top 5 projects of 2012 by Building magazine and will be featured as one of the National Geographic Megastructure documentaries.
Andrew formed Grant Associates in 1997 to explore the emerging frontiers of landscape architecture within sustainable development. His approach is driven by a fascination with creative ecology and the promotion of quality and innovation in project work. He has built up experience in all scales and types of projects from subregional planning to the detailing of the smallest piece of new landscapes.
In 2011 Andrew was made an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA reflecting the strong relationships he has developed with many of the leading architects in the UK and abroad and his work on key architectural projects such as the 2008 Stirling Prize winning Accordia.. Andrew is currently leading a number of high profile multi disciplinary projects in the UK and abroad including the £500million Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Having studied Landscape Architecture at Heriot Watt University/ Edinburgh College of Art 1977-1982, he is a member of Cabe Space, the South West Region Design Panel and Bath’s Public Realm and Movement Design Panel, an External Examiner for landscape courses and regularly presents the work of Grant Associates at International Conferences.
Image credit: Phil Jones, Grant Associates
8th February, Carl Steinitz: Public Participation in Landscape Planning: a Prognosis for the Future
Landscape planning, in common with all physical design activities, requires answers to six questions:
1. How should the landscape context be described in content, space and time?
2. How does the landscape context function ?
3. Is the current context working well?
4. How might the landscape context be changed in the future?
5. What difference might the changes cause?
6. How should the landscape context be changed?
There is a commonly held expectation that the answers to these questions and their coordination into a landscape plan for an area will be undertaken by a team of professionally and scientifically trained persons, guided by a client committee which is frequently a branch of government. My talk will show examples of how each of these questions has been answered directly through public participation. It will raise an awkward question: what will the future professional roles be when today’s developing technologies are ubiquitous and enable direct public participation in all aspects of planning and design?
15th February, Noël van Dooren: On Landscape, Time and Drawing
Noël van Dooren, a Dutch landscape architect, writer and researcher, is currently working on a PhD about ‘Drawing Time’ and his talk will focus on his fascination for drawing. Initially discussing drawing as separate topic from landscape architecture, he will consider topics such as what it means to speak about a section as section, and will suggest that to think about drawing is to think about history, design processes and design cultures. He will address the taxonomy of drawings, the position of specific drawing types like ‘the map’ or ‘the visualization’, and the role of the drawing as piece of art and as representation of reality.
Since his research is also about time, in the second section of his talk, he will ask what exactly is time in landscape architecture and how might it be represented? In a richly illustrated talk, Noël van Dooren, will, in a relaxed and informal manner, offer many diverse topics for discussion, in particular, asking whether we should reconsider contemporary ways of visualizing and shouldn’t we be more aware of time; if so, should we draw it and how?
Noël van Dooren (1967) worked at H+N+ 1992-1997 and as independent landscape architect 1997-2012. His projects are mainly related to water (dike reinforcement; reconstructions of river plains and rainwater catchment areas). He was member of the board of the Dutch professional magazine Blauwe Kamer and he wrote books and articles on landscape architecture. He was head of the landscape architecture department at the Academy of Architecture Amsterdam 2004-2009. The Academy offered him the opportunity to pursue the ‘Drawing Time’ research as a PhD. Erik de Jong (University of Amsterdam) and Udo Weilacher (TU Munich) are supervising the research
22nd February: Andrew Wilson ”And the planting……? The loss of design rigour in our planting.”
Trained originally in landscape architecture Andrew Wilson is a garden designer and a director of the Wilson McWilliam Studio, an award winning garden and landscape design practice in London. Commissions include the recently opened Rose Garden at the Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park. www.wmstudio.co.uk <http://www.wmstudio.co.uk/>
He is also Director of Garden Design Studies at The London College of Garden Design and lectures regularly both nationally and internationally. In addition to his teaching at many garden design colleges he has also taught at University of Sheffield, The University of Greenwich, BCU and Falmouth College in garden design and landscape architecture. As a writer and author, his most recent publications are The Gardens Of Luciano Giubbilei (Merrell) and Contemporary Colour in the Garden (Timber Press). Andrew is a show garden judge for the RHS, a former Chairman of The Society of Garden Designers and a regular contributor to Gardens Illustrated and The Garden. He is the founding editor of The Garden Design Journal.
29th February: Neil Porter, World Cities - Liveable Landscapes
The development of Gustafson Porter’s design work has continuously pushed the boundaries of what constitutes the field of landscape. The practice has developed a reputation for creating innovative and contemporary landscape design and the ability to deliver high quality design on high profile projects.
Formed in 1997, when the acclaimed landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson opened a London office with architect Neil Porter, the practice was joined by Mary Bowman as a Director in 2002. By embracing knowledge in many fields, nurturing new technologies and techniques, expanding territories of interest across the full breadth of landscape fields and across many cultures and climate zones, Gustafson Porter continue to expand their areas of expertise with challenging work.
Neil Porter, Joint Director and Designer, Gustafson Porter will talk about Gustafson Porter’s past and present work, creating contemporary parks that respond to the unique cultural, climatic and physical contexts that surround them, but also take on special challenges relevant to all cities in transformation - Amsterdam, Beirut, Singapore, Milan, Valencia, Beijing
7th March at 1.00pm Fruzsina Zelenák Landscape Design in Hungary room 217 Gosta Green
Fruzsina Zelenák is a young landscape architect from Hungary currently working on her PhD at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. Her Master’s Thesis has gained the DIPLOME Award 2011 by the Chamber of Hungarian Landscape Architects. During her undergraduate studies she was an Erasmus trainee in WSP Finland Ltd. working for the Landscape and Environmental Unit. She has participated in many international projects and workshops such as the HELLOWOOD 2011 festival organized by MOMEline Design Works and UJIRANY Group.
Her presentation focuses on contemporary landscape design in Hungary, highlighting leading Hungarian landscape architect’s studio work. In addition she brings historical examples like Hungarian gardens from the 19th century influenced by English garden design. From Budapest’s compelling urban texture she emphasizes the UNESCO listed Andrássy Avenue, which links the heart of the capital to City Park, the first public park in the world.
7th March 17.45pm Peter Neal, Masterplanning big landscapes
image credit: CABE/New Things Happen
From Grey to Green: Masterplanning big landscapes
Current practice in landscape masterplanning is increasingly looking to establish a richer, more dynamic and diverse green infrastructure that harnesses the power of natural processes and systems. The challenge is to progressively depart from a heavily engineered grey infrastructure to one that is more flexible, more attractive, more connected and far more cost effective to deliver. Such practice has an interesting back catalogue that includes Olmstead’s proposals for park and parkway systems, Howard’s vision of Garden Cities, our post-war planning of the New Towns to more recent design competitions for post-industrial urban parks and parklands. This lecture reflects on the lessons from the recent masterplanning of big landscapes drawn across the scales - from region, to city, district and site. Green infrastructure frameworks, open space strategies and landscape masterplans are increasingly being used as vehicles to lead and coordinate a more integrated approach to the sustainable regeneration of urban districts and wider city regions. This includes work across the Mersey Basin for the Atlantic Gateway, through greening strategies for the cities of Liverpool and Leeds to work throughout the Thames Gateway culminating with the near complete Olympic Park for London 2012 – arguably one of the most sophisticated and ambitious urban landscapes our country has ever built.
Peter Neal is a landscape architect and environmental planner. Formally
Head of Public Space at CABE, he ran a national planning and design enabling programme that championed the value of urban parks and green spaces and helped develop national environmental policy. As an independent consultant he now works across public, private and charity sectors, acting as a design advisor for the Olympic Delivery Authority, which he has done for over five years and serving on a number of expert advisory networks and panels.
14th March, Paul Shepheard, INFRASTRUCTURE
The working title of this talk was ‘Infrastructure: default/actual’. It is part of my continuing enquiries into the structures of the material world.
A ‘default’ is an orthodox position, and I start with the idea that the infrastructure defaults we assume are usually either profit or history, though we talk about utility most of the time. When I suggest ‘actual’, I am trying to show that something else lies beneath these rationalisations: because infrastructure means ‘the structure that lies beneath’.
The lecture proceeds by a series of landscape parables that explore this interpretation of infrastructure. A study of Europe as a single entity leads to a simple geometrical analogy of space depicted as points (cathedrals), lines (rivers) and field (Germany): A study of the edge of the continent reveals the horizon as a phenomenon of the curved earth, which leads to the trope of the bowl of the horizon, addressing problems of individual perception, and then on to speculations about the deep nature of the actual world and the solar system, the problem of current one world theories, the nature of the spherical surface of the planet and the coincidence of gravity with the third dimension: point, line and field is renovated as line, field and volume, and cathedrals appear again in this context as infrastructural buildings. The study of gravity leads on to speculations about the structure of the biomass as an evolving infrastructural phenomenon and to enquiries into the nature of mimetic landscapes illustrated by the cities of Silbury, Jerusalem and Houston.The mimetic is further pursued in examinations of the sites of Lascaux, Delphi and Geku as manifestations of mimetic process and the mechanics of DNA transmission are looked at as an analogy for form, both of which subjects illuminate the problem of sustainability, with the township of Soweto and of the northern European cathedrals, again, as examples.
Paul Shepheard is a writer living in London, England. He is qualified as an architect but since the publication of What is Architecture? by the MIT Press in 1994 has gradually shifted the emphasis of his activities to writing and lecturing. He has two other books with the MIT Press, The Cultivated Wilderness, about landscape, 1997, and Artificial Love about architecture and machines, 2003. Currently working onHow To Like Everything, a book about criticism; and also a collection of essays on Infrastructure. He has taught at the Architectural Association in London, the University of Texas at Austin, the Academie Van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam and Artesis, Antwerp. More details atwww.paulshepheard.com.
21st March: Ruth Morrow
Community + Creativity: Tactics of being ‘at hand’ in Critical Context.
This lecture will outline the challenges of working collaboratively in critical sites. Between Bingo and Barbed wire with an interest in social changes through small socio/spatial interventions. In her work, Morrow seeks to bring creative and strategic practices to wide publics. In this respect, her collaboration with Peter Mutschler and PS2 (http://www.pssquared.org/) is a means to better understand how relatively modest creative actions have the potential to act as fulcrums of transformation.
25th April: SueAnne Ware (tbc)
2nd May: Jeppe Aagard Anderson, Cities are for people - urban form
Jeppe Aagaard Andersen (1952), Danish architect and landscape architect, trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen 1980. Jeppe Aagaard Andersen has worked both as a landscape architect and as a free artist. He has been connected to the University of Western Australia and University of Birmingham, United Kingdom in a series of design workshops at and works as Ax:jon Johnson Guest Professor for University of Lund, Sweden .
JAA bring expertise in seafront landscaping, urban design, parks and architecture, working on projects worldwide, recently constructing the Camperdown Public Domain, the vast public space at Sydney University Campus, Australia. Central Park Sydney and refurbishment of Hyde Park Sydney. Other worldwide projects include King Abdullah II Park in Amman, Jordan, construction of two sea baths in Malmö, Sweden, as well as a number of European squares, parks and promenades. Jeppe Aagaard Andersen Landscape Architects’services have for a number of years included historical refurbishment of parks, quays, squares and historical monuments, the most recent of those projects being the Kronborg Culture Port project, a regeneration of the historical settings of the UNESCO world heritage listed Royal Castle of Kronborg in Elsinore, Denmark.
9th May: Richard Weston, Transformations: designs from nature
Transformations: designs from nature
Working with digital data captured from natural materials such as minerals, shells and rocks, Richard Weston Studio designs a wide range of products from scarves to hand-bound journals, iPad covers to jewellery, available in leading stores and on Net-a-Porter. The lecture will present this work alongside new projects for a new house and studio and travelling exhibitions, and explore the wider potential of returning to nature as a source of inspiration for design and architecture that are being opened by digital technologies.
16th May - watch this space (tbc)
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