Can a new form of landscape architectural practice be achieved?

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Recently, I reviewed Overgrown by Julian Raxworthy, in which he calls on landscape architects to create a new form of practice that learns from gardening and “optimizes the exciting properties of plants through changing the way landscape architects work” which he is calling “the viridic”. Raxworthy provides a series of positions “for reformulation of landscape-architectural practice …

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Overgrown By Julian Raxworthy – Book Review

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Overgrown by Julian Raxworthy calls on landscape architects to embrace gardening and connecting with the site and working plants in the landscape. He encourages landscape architects to develop a new type of design practice by leaving their offices including the visualisations and plans to acknowledge and learn from the growing landscape. Throughout reading the book you …

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Starting off 2019

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I have great hopes for 2019 and today is the first day of 2019 and I am planning ahead for World Landscape Architecture and also some other side projects this year. The first month will be busy with organising the WLA Awards which is starting to receive entries with a deadline of March 1. This is …

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Improving quality through independent reviews

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Independent reviews (peer reviews) are important for projects as they provide an assessment and feedback from an expert who is impartial and not involved with the project to critically review and evaluate the content. The quality of a project can improve with successive reviews at various milestones (end of stages) to ensure that issues are …

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What would be the ideal final year design studio at university?

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Over a the of years, I have seen and heard about final year design studios (design subjects) and have been inspired by the design thinking and ideas presented by students. I also remember back to when I completed my final year design studio at university and then what I experienced as a landscape architect in …

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