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Thought as design sketches: why landscape architects should don their mental lab coats & experiment!
_ARTICLE_ by Merci Ikuri Inspiration and encouragement for landscape architects in these dark winter months
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Designing with landscape identity
_GRADUATION WORK_ by Romy Zwiers The goal of this thesis was to develop an approach to landscape analysis and design that takes into account local inhabitants opinions and meanings on landscape. The approach was applied to one of the Ruimte voor de Rivier projects (Zwolle) in the Netherlands, where in the original project, local inhabitants opinions and meanings were not taken into account.
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Deventer: the romanticized Dutch planning process
_BOOK REVIEW_ by Flore Bijker Deventer is a fascinating book – both informative and exciting, written in an intelligent and vivid tone. Matthew Stadler is an American journalist, discovering and describing the Dutch urban landscape and its complex planning practices. He follows a planning process in Deventer, where an innovative real-estate project takes place, including a cross-disciplinary team of architects, business experts, financiers, artist and planners.
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The Death of the Architect
_GRADUATION WORK_ by Rob Tönissen In the last 30 years innovative technological and software developments from the digital revolution have strongly influenced the way we think about sharing and working with knowledge in contemporary society.