Churchman Landscape Architects are looking for graduates

 

 

Churchman Landscape Architects is a progressive, award winning Landscape Design practice operating from London and Bristol. Current projects involve the £15M Green Heart project for the University of Birmingham, an historic landscape at Nottingham Castle and a new university campus in Jordan. With 20 employees, we are now one of the UKs larger Landscape Architectural practices. We have a well-established programme of employing newly qualified staff to join our team, either as graduates or year outs, with this year being no exception. We offer exposure to a wide range of project types, while design remains our focus we do also provide opportunities to work on schemes that have an emphasis on planning and environmental assessment.

We offer varied training including hands on involvement with BIM and a mentoring programme for those looking to move on to the Pathway to Chartership. We continue to enjoy sustainable growth from a diverse client base which provides our graduates with real opportunities for professional development; at present we are continuing to experience a constant flow of new and exciting work.

If you see yourself as a committed and talented designer, then please do submit your CV to us for consideration. Please send a CV to:

j.lorinstein@churchmanla.co.uk either attaching pdfs of up to three drawings or alternatively a link to your portfolio. We look forward to hearing from you.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

 

Year-out and graduate landscape architecture employment opportunities

Landscape Year Out Student Wanted

We are P-IE (Planit Intelligent Environments), a design practice with a passion for outside spaces and the role they play as building blocks for our communities.
We are looking for a resourceful and driven Year Out Landscape Architect in our Manchester studio to support of our experienced team’s work on some of the industry’s most exciting national and international projects. Willing to pitch in at all stages of our projects, you must have excellent graphic skills and be used to working under pressure to challenging deadlines. In return you will gain professional experience on a wide range of projects, at a variety of scales, at all stages of the design process.
Take a look at the news on our website or @PlanitIE twitter feed to see the type of projects you could be working on. Posts by previous year-out students can be read at: Year Out Reflections and Looking Back at a Year Out
Please send your CV, original cover letter and Portfolio of work (max file size 5mb) to recruitment@planit-ie.com using 2017-05-MAN-ALA-01 as the subject heading. The closing date for applications is Monday 19 June 2017. No postal copies. No agencies.
Planit-IE is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Graduate degree in Landscape Architecture or similar (Eg BA)
• Innate design ability
• Excellent verbal and graphic communication skills
• Experience of the Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch Up and an industry recognised CAD package
• Enthusiasm to learn and engage with the wider studio team

BENEFICIAL SKILLS

• Experience of Vectorworks and the Mac OS platform

Landscape Graduates Sought

We are P-IE (Planit Intelligent Environments), a design practice with a passion for outside spaces and the role they play as building blocks for our communities.
We are looking for resourceful and driven Graduate Landscape Architects in our Manchester and London studios to support of our experienced teams’ work on some of the industry’s most exciting national and international projects. Willing to pitch in at all stages of our projects, you must have excellent graphic skills and be used to working under pressure to challenging deadlines. In return you will gain professional experience on a wide range of projects, at a variety of scales, at all stages of the design process. Take a look at the news on our website or @PlanitIE twitter feed to see the type of projects you could be working on.
Please send your CV, original cover letter and Portfolio of work (max file size 5mb) to recruitment@planit-ie.com, using 2017-05-LON-GLA-01 for London and 2017-05-MAN-GLA-01 for Manchester as the subject heading. The closing date for applications is Monday 19 June 2017. No postal copies. No agencies.
Planit-IE is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Post-graduate degree in Landscape Architecture or similar (Eg PGDip, BLA, MLA)
• Innate design ability
• Excellent verbal and graphic communication skills
• Experience of the Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch Up and an industry recognised CAD package
• Enthusiasm to learn and engage with the wider studio team

BENEFICIAL SKILLS

• Experience of Vectorworks and the Mac OS platform

MA Landscape Architecture Student Videos

 MA Landscape Architecture and Garden Design students make a video in the Advanced Design Studio. These videos are used as a representation technique to support the design process and help students to express their concept and improve thinking process.

Sensory masterplan by Ilbin Yoon

The video A Different ‘World of Perception’ is made by Ilbin Yoon, MA Landscape Architecture student. You can watch the film through this link:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXkOoMNgu6Q

 

 A Different ‘World of Perception’

 

  There is a boy who loves his garden.
  The boy loses his sight, and then he suffers from depression.
  But, through therapeutic power of nature of his garden, he realises he is not in a pitch-black world

  but a different ‘World of Perception’.

Alumnus wins Gold Medal at RHS Chelsea

Writtle University College alumnus Ian Price has won a Gold Medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2017 for his garden about mental ill health.

The 39-year-old used the prestigious show as a platform to draw attention to an issue that will affect 1 in 4 of us at some point in our lives.

The garden gives visitors a taste of life debilitated by depression in a deeply personal creative project - and it attracted the interest of HRH The Duchess of Cambridge who visited the Mind Trap garden and spoke to Ian about its creation and his experiences.

Ian, who graduated from Writtle in 1998, said: “I am totally overwhelmed by the response of the judges and visitors to Mind Trap. When I first set out to create this garden, I wanted to turn my experience of battling depression into something positive. As the idea progressed and I received so much positive feedback about my mission, I realised just how important it could be to so many others too.

“To have now achieved the recognition of the RHS with this Gold Medal has just blown me away completely and I feel so honoured to have been given the opportunity to exhibit my design at the world's most prestigious flower show.

“I truly hope that my 'positive garden about mental health' can help to raise more awareness of mental health and let others know that it really is OK, not to be OK, and with the right help and hard work you can learn to take back control.”

Ian visited Writtle University College in March to give Landscape Architecture and Garden Design degree students an insight into the plans for his show garden and to critique their work. Following his visit, he gave students invaluable experience of helping with the planting of Mind Trap at RHS Chelsea.

Based on Ian's personal battle with mental ill health and depression, every element of Mind Trap has been carefully structured to symbolise a facet of mental ill health. From the black-water pond which gently ripples so as not to allow you to see a true reflection of yourself, to the harsh metal walls looming in on you making the visitor feel caged with only a few rays of light at certain angles, each stone, plant and shrub has been carefully chosen to align with his mission.

Ian was the only garden designer from Northern Ireland at the prestigious show and the first from there in at least 30 years to have secured a spot there. It is his first RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden; he won a gold medal for his first RHS show garden at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park in 2014.

The garden was sponsored by idverde. Alistair Bayford, Sales and Operations Director at idverde and another Writtle alumnus, said: “When we first heard about Mind Trap's concept we felt compelled to embark upon our first venture into RHS Chelsea Flower Show as the message behind it resonates so completely with so many people.

“As Europe's leading green services provider we know just how important green spaces are to people and we loved how Ian's design utilises symbolism to immerse people into an experience of suffering from mental ill health, whilst also showing the importance of green spaces and horticulture in helping people to build resilience and recover.”

Mind Trap sponsored by idverde supports the Heads Together campaign, and charities Perennial and Inspire. When the bell tolls on Saturday, funds raised by the sale of plants from the garden will be donated to these three worthy causes.

www.idverde.co.uk/mind-trap

Exterior Architecture (ExA) is looking to recruit Graduate Landscape Architects

Due to an increasing work load Exterior Architecture (ExA) is looking to recruit talented and ambitious Graduate Landscape Architects to join their busy London and Manchester Studios. Candidates should hold a post graduate qualification in Landscape Architecture and be eligible to work in the UK.

 Applicants must be creative and able to work successfully within multi-disciplinary design teams. They should be motivated, well organised and have excellent design and communication skills.

 Successful candidates will become part of a busy and forward thinking practice working on high profile and exciting projects, in both the UK and Internationally, from concept through to detailed design and contract implementation.

 Candidates will need to be proficient in the basic industry software such as AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite.  An understanding of Sketch-up with a willingness to develop skills in Revit is desirable.

 ExA is dedicated to furthering the career ambitions of its staff and will support any candidate who is looking to start or who has started their Pathway to Chartership.

 A competitive salary will be available to successful candidates, based on relevant experience and ability.

 To apply please email your CV with examples of work to hr@exteriorarchitecture.com. Email attachments should be no larger than 10mb.

 Exterior Architecture is an equal opportunities employer

 Please, no agencies.

Manchester: 537 The Royal Exchange, St. Ann's Square, M2 7DH Office: +44 (0) 161 850 8101 London: 1S Hewlett House, Havelock Terrace, London, SW8 4AS Office: +44 (0) 20 7978 2101 www.exteriorarchitecture.com

 

 

The Landscape Partnership is looking for landscape architects

The Landscape Partnership is an established practice of Landscape Architects, Urban Designers, Ecologists, Environmental Planners, Arboriculturists and Graphic Designers. We have a team of 40 people working from our four UK locations and currently have a vacancy in Bedford.

The Bedford office has a varied portfolio of landscape planning and landscape design projects, including green infrastructure strategies, Environmental Impact Assessment’s, landscape character assessments, landscape capacity studies, renewable energy, education, recreation, commercial, residential, and major

infrastructure schemes. Projects are undertaken from feasibility to implementation; many require representation at public inquiry. The office is close to the town centre and the Victorian gardens along the embankment of the River Great Ouse, and is a short walk from the Midland Mainline railway station (London 40 mins).

We offer the opportunity to be involved in a wide range of project types and to develop a broad skill base. The position requires close working with our design and environmental teams, playing important supporting roles in project delivery within a friendly and supportive working environment.

 

Year-Out Student / Landscape Assistant (BA /BSc in Landscape Architecture or equivalent)

We are offering a year-out placement to a talented and motivated student who wishes to be involved in a variety of projects, working at a range of scales from strategic and landscape planning to detail design. There will be opportunities to work alongside colleagues in other disciplines, including assisting with ecological fieldwork, building on technical skills and gaining experience in a broad spectrum of design and environmental planning projects.

 

The appointment will commence in summer 2017. Applicants should have completed formal training at a Landscape Institute accredited course or equivalent.

Please send CVs and examples of work, including some free-hand graphics, to bedford@tlp.uk.com or phone Phill Wray or Adrian Thompson on 01234 261 315 if you would like an informal chat about this position.

Graduate Landscape Architect for Allen Pyke Associates

Graduate Landscape Architect

Allen Pyke wish to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated graduate landscape architect to our team in Kingston-upon-Thames, southwest London. The full time position will be an exciting opportunity to progress your career in a well-established and friendly landscape practice working with a supportive team of landscape architects.

 The practice has a diverse portfolio of residential, commercial and public realm projects for private and public sector clients. We work on all stages of the design process from concept design, through planning, to construction.

 

You will gain experience in working with high profile, multi-disciplinary design teams taking projects through the planning process to detailed design and contract implementation. At Allen Pyke, you will get to see your designs being built!

Applicants will need to demonstrate a range of design and graphics skills that include the use of Autocad, Adobe software and hand graphics. Good written and spoken English is essential, along with a working knowledge of the English planning system. At least one-year’s work experience would be beneficial.

 We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience and ability. A generous remuneration package will include profit related pay, pension scheme and critical illness insurance cover. Mentoring from senior staff will be available to P2C candidates.

We are seeking an appointment at the first possible opportunity and ideally by early to mid-July so early application is advantageous.

Your application should be submitted in .pdf format by 5th June 2017. It should include your CV and a portfolio illustrating a range of work and graphic styles (max 10mb). Email to: design@allenpyke.co.uk FAO: Julie Miles, Administration Manager.

The Rogelio Salmona Fellowship

The British Council is seeking applications from architects and designers who have an interest in exploring the work of Rogelio Salmona and other architects and designers in Colombia for the Rogelio Salmona Fellowship.

 Applications from practitioners in fields other than architecture and design are also welcome to apply (e.g. art; curatorial studies; history; social sciences or philosophy as well as architectural conservation and restoration; urban planning, architecture or design history or criticism).

Applicants must be able to travel to Colombia for a period of 5-6 weeks between 15 July and 15 September 2017 (arriving in Bogotá before 15 August 2017).

 The Residency
While in Colombia, the designer in residence will be offered accommodation and access to a network of key contacts. They will be encouraged to visit all of Salmona’s built projects, to study the archive of his work, and to speak with people who have studied his life. A study of the work of other architects and designers, as well as Colombian culture as a whole, is also encouraged. The residency will be split between Bogotá and the Colombian Pacific Coast, and may include other cities in Colombia according to the proposed itinerary by the selected Fellow.
In addition to any specific areas that applicants would like to research, possible lines of enquiry in Rogelio Salmona’s work include:

• Architecture and citizenship;
• History and memory;
• Environment and nature;
• Craft and materials;
• Public realm.

Applicants must be able to travel to Colombia for a period of 5-6 weeks between 15 July and 15 September 2017 (arriving in Bogotá before 15 August 2017).

 

How to Apply

Further information on the Fellowship and on how to apply detailed on the Open Call document.

The deadline for submissions is 16:00 (GMT) on Friday 19 May 2017.

 

The deadline for submissions is 16:00 (GMT) on Friday 19 May 2017.

 

For more information please click here.