Peter Walker is an American landscape architect. He graduated from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1957 and went into partnership with Hideo Sasaki in 1972 and then with Martha Schwartz in 1983. Walker co-designed the World Trade Center Memorial …
Peter Walker explains his design for the 9/11 Memorial Read more →
Noel Farrer, principal of Huxley Farrer, is interviewed by interviewed by Lalla Hussain (BA Landscape Architecture student at the University of Greenwich in London) in 2015. Farrer is says it is easier to explain garden design, urban design, master planner etc than it …
Interview with Noel Farrer, President of the Landscape Institute 2014-16 Read more →
The Landscape Institute’s Library and Archive is held at MERL, the Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading. As well as the LI’s library and archive MERL has a comprehensive national collection of objects, books and archives …
Landscape Institute archive and library: MERL and FOLAR Read more →
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900 -1996) was an English architect, town planner, landscape architect, garden designer and author. Jellicoe was a founder member of the Institute of Landscape architects (now the Landscape Institute), in 1929, and its President from 1939-1949. In 1948, …
Geoffrey Jellicoe landscape architect: interview and review of his work Read more →
Tom Turner answers questions from University of Greenwich BA landscape architecture students about: the definition of landscape architecture international influences on British landscape architecture favourite landscape projects from the 3000 year history of landscape architecture how climate change might affect landscape …
History and theory of landscape architecture – Tom Turner interviewed Read more →
Lawrence Halprin tells how a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin led him to become a designer. ‘Ever since then, I’ve been a landscape architect, thank God’, he says on this video. Halprin studied at Harvard and, like many American …
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James Corner was born in Preston and began his study of landscape architecture at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. The Time Magazine interview with Corner was published in 2012 under the title: Game Changer: James Corner, Urban Dreamscaper. Corner defines landscape …
James Corner interview: the High Line and Intimate Immensity Read more →
The Landscape Institute video (on landscape architecture as a career) provides a very good overview of: the history of the landscape architecture profession – which has its feet in the stone age, its body in the last two centuries and its …
TfL are consulting on the creation of superhighway-style cycle lanes on Westminster Bridge, as discussed in the video, below, by Robert Holden and Tom Turner. The consultation period ends on 22.12.2015. Our conclusions are: TfL and Lambeth Council should consider …
The Crossrail station at Canary Wharf is topped by a public roof garden. The design for the garden evokes a ship laden with unusual and exotic specimens from around the globe – a nod to its maritime past. Under a …
Crossrail Place Roof Garden London by Gillespies Read more →
