Landscape Talks:The Landscape Partnership

Oliver Lee, Director at The Landscape Partnership talked to students and staff about wide range of projects.

This week we hosted Oliver Lee, the Director at the Landscape Partnership, Suffolk and London at Writtle University College. Oliver showed examples from a wide range of projects he managed over the years. The larger scale projects such as Cambridge Green Infrastructure Strategy and Green Belt Landscape Capacity Studies were great examples to see the impacts of the landscape in the strategical decision making in relation to landscape planning.Urban design projects such as Fordham Park in London and Linear Park on Deptford showed us the importance of public needs and designer's response to the behavioral patterns in the urban areas. Students gained a new insight into the role of landscape architects' role through the wide range of projects.

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Fit for the purpose: Natural stone as paving material

Giles Heap, Director of the Ced Stone gave a fascinating talk to WUC students and staff.

Landscape Talks series at Writtle University College continued with Giles Heap, the Director of the landscape company Ced Stone.  In his talk, Giles explained the natural hard landscape materials and their specifications with different examples. Ced Stone is involved with fascinating landscape architecture projects such as Natural History Museum and students and staff had the opportunity to gain insight into these projects from the perspective of materials and paving. Giles emphasized the the importance of the right material for the right purpose as well as their aesthetic value and impact onto the landscape.

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Landscape Talks Public lecture series: Placemaking at Thamesmead in London

Phil Askew, Director of Thamesmead Placemaking and Landscape presented the project development to Writtle University College students and staff.

Writtle University College Landscape Architecture department hosted another fascinating talk to students and staff. Alumnus Phil Askew, the Director of Placemaking and Landscape in Thamesmead talked about the history of the site and its position within the London context. Phil emphasized the importance of the landscape in terms of the regeneration and urbanization processes in London and the strategies that Peabody is developing for the area. The changes and the improvements in the landscape will recover its sense of place for the communities and generate a new identity for the area.

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