LAGD Study Tour October 2019

This week undergraduate and postgraduate Landscape Architecture and Garden Design students have undertaken a two-day study tour to look at similar landscape types at differing scales.

First on the itinerary was the garden and landscape at Rousham House, Oxfordshire, designed by William Kent. It is an outstanding example of a classical English Landscape Garden, which is still in private ownership with a functioning walled kitchen garden and pleasure grounds. Their next stop took them to Waterperry Gardens, an educational landscape that is constantly evolving and has a fine plant collection.

The second day saw a visit to Sheffield Park, Sussex, a large scale landscape garden with an outstanding tree collection integrated into a landscape designed by Capability Brown. At this time of year the collection provides a blaze of autumn colour, allowing students to explore a collection of plants that is truly extraordinary.

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Autumn Fungi

Autumn is a great time of year to see some wonderful colours in nature, such as with this beautiful Amanita muscaria fungi photographed on the main Writtle campus this morning.

Landscape Talk - Corrine Payne

Earlier this week Corrine Payne from Tom Stuart-Smith Landscape Design gave a fascinating talk to Landscape Architecture and Garden Design students about the garden design projects that she is involved with in the practice.

Corrine is one of our successful alumni who completed the 2 year MA Landscape Architecture course in 2016 and has been working in garden design since her graduation from WUC.

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Facebook Group for LAGD Students and Alumni

We would like to welcome current Landscape Architecture & Garden Design students and alumni to join our new group.

Landscape Architecture & Garden Design at WUC is a free space to discuss, post and share everything going on in LAGD.

Thanks to 3rd year BSc (Hons) Landscape Architecture student Katherine Hubbard for setting it up.

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LAGD Visit Darsham Nurseries

Yesterday, 2nd year Landscape Architecture and Garden Design students visited Darsham Nurseries in Suffolk.

Jevan Watkins Jones gave them a guided tour, which included the potager, the nursery, the private gardens and studio space, the crop fields, the compost station and poly tunnels, and the Jardin de Douze, and then led them in an art workshop exploring shape through folding.

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Writtle Graduate Shortlisted for SGD Awards 2020

Exciting student success news!

Writtle BSc (Hons) Landscape & Garden Design graduate Sophie Sturgeon has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Society of Garden Designers Student Awards 2020 with her dissertation design 'Prescribing Nature'.

The winners will be announced at the SGD Awards Ceremony on Friday 31st January 2020. Good luck Sophie!

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MA LAGD collaboration with Chelmsford City Council

The MA Landscape Architecture and Garden Design studio has launched a new project with the collaboration of Chelmsford City Council. The Council would like to repurpose Sandford Mill in Chelmsford as a destination for the region.

 Students will propose a new masterplan for the country park containing Sandford Mill, with the aim of the project to develop a well interlinked and resilient blue/green infrastructure that will serve the City of Chelmsford within its river systems and wider ecological assets whilst supporting the City’s sustainable development.

Last week the students visited the site for the first time with the city planners and gained the first impressions of the site. From this they will work on strategic and conceptual ideas to present back to the council.

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Landscape Talk - Ceylan Belek Ombregt

On Monday we were pleased to invite back Ceylan Belek Ombregt, Associate Director at Martha Schwartz Partners and former Writtle lecturer, for our first Landscape Lecture for 2019-20.

During her talk Ceylan delved into the many Landscape Architecture projects of Martha Schwartz Partners, a fabulous opportunity for  our #LandscapeArchitecture and #GardenDesign students.

Our next #LandscapeLecture will take place on Monday 21st October, and we will be welcoming back Writtle alumnus Corrine Payne of Tom Stuart-Smith Garden Design.

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Learning the Lay of the Land

Last week, students on the undergraduate Landscape Architecture and Landscape & Garden Design courses, and Master of Landscape Architecture course, visited the Writtle University College reservoir as part of their MMT/LCT modules.

The students are learning about sustainable approaches to the design and construction of sites with challenging topography. As a bonus, they were also treated to an aerobatic performance from the visiting wildfowl.

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