CITY as LANDSCAPE architecture
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Vegan landscape architecture
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Veganism is a set of principles, as well as being a diet, and relates to Green Buddhism. The design principles include: - vegetated ground, roofs and...
Best-ever poem about a landscape architect
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This moving Elegy on John Claudius Loudon was written by John Robertson, his assistant for 9 years. A fascinating aspect of the poem is the twin theme...
The work and adventures of two brilliant early 19th century cousins from the west of Scotland.
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Claudius Buchanan’s promotion of higher education in India led to the foundation of its first degree-awarding university, at Serampore. He also had ...
New biography of landscape architecture's grandfather: John Claudius Loudon
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This update on the City as Landscape podcast channel explains why it has been neglected for a few years: the reason is because Tom Turner has been wri...
Landscape Institute UK: Past, Present and Future
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Holden and Tom Turner discus the Landscape Institute's aims and its achievements. Landscape Institute Members for 111 years (half each), t...
Environmental Art & Landscape Architecture - LANDSCAPEmatters Debate
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seven artists and landscape architects outline their views of environmental art and landscape architecture: Brodie McAllister, Andrew Stonyer, Catheri...
Interview with Edward Hutchison landscape architect, artist, draughtsman, author and watercolour painter
23 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is a very fully illustrated version of this podcast on YouTube. Edward Hutchison is a London artist, landscape architect, architect and author o...
Environmental Art Debate - reflection by Tom Turner
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a summary of what came out of the LANDSCAPEmatters debate on environmental art and landscape architecture (held by LANDSCAPEmatters on 15th Jun...
Environment, Art and Landscape Architecture
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Though published out of sequence, this is is the first of nine or ten podcasts about the relationship between the Environment, Art and Landscape Archi...
Debate on Environmental Art and Landscape Architecture - intro by Brodie McAllister
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brodie McAllister gives an outline of land art, environmental art and their relationship to landscape architecture. The debate was organised by LANDSC...
The History of Land Art, Ecological and Environmental Art in relation to Landscape Architecture
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Environmental Art" can be seen to have originated in the early 20th century, with Picasso, collage, Duchamp, readymade artworks, Cubism and Minimalis...
Is landscape architecture a good job and career?
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Landscape architecture is a very good job and a very satisfying career. The work is creative, exciting and a great way to solve environmental problems...
The Landscape Institute, the Landscape Foundation, the May 2021 LI Elections - and the future
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The UK Landscape Institute election, in May 2021, is a good opportunity to think about the future of the landscape profession, the art of landscape ar...
The future of landscape architecture in the Age of Climate Change: a debate
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Landscape Institute (LI) Past President Merrick Denton-Thompson OBE looks to the future in a wide-ranging debate with Past LI Vice President Bro...
Future vision for 21st century cities blanketed with roof gardens and green rooftops
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There's an illustrated version of this podcast on Youtube https://youtu.be/qdZIVBRGIec It takes an overview of how and why cities could, and surely wi...
Why does the landscape architecture profession need professional institutes?
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does the landscape profession need professional societies? Yes. Institutes, societies and similar bodies have a vital role: in promoting landscape arc...
John Claudius Loudon: landscape architecture's giant brain
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An illustrated version of this podcast is available on Youtube. A reasonable case exists for seeing John Claudius Loudon as Landscape Architecture's G...
Geoffrey Jellicoe, Jordan Peterson, God and post-Postmodernism
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
No surprise if half of you hate Jordan Peterson and the other half love him. That's how it goes. But I guess we all love Geoffrey Jellicoe. The theme ...
Musical critique of the proposal for Victoria Tower Garden to be the UK National Holocaust Memorial
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is a critique of a competition winning design for converting a romantic public garden beside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster into...
Ideas in landscape architecture | S1 E7
23 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ideas lie at the heart of landscape architecture and should have the same place in the design process. This includes ideas about the natural wor...
A pattern based design method for landscape architects
02 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the third part of a podcast, based on Tom Turner's book on City as landscape. A design method is proposed which draws upon Christopher A...
Structuralism in landscape architecture
19 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second part of a podcast, based on Tom Turner's book on City as landscape. It reviews the ways in which different types of structuralist t...
Landscape architecture and Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language
05 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first part of a podcast, based on Chapter 3 of Tom Turner's book on City as landscape. It's about the importance of ideas in the lan...
Patrick Geddes, Ian McHarg and the origins of landscape urbanism | S1 E6
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is a fully illustrated version of this podcast on Youtube. It's about the most influential landscape architect of the 20th century. Well known t...
Buildings should have green roofs, living walls and NO DEAD SKIN | S1 E5
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Far too many buildings are covered with dead skin. Concrete, steel, wood, metal, brick, bitumen, rubber and vinyl are lifeless materials which can and...
Climate change mitigation through landscape architecture and planning | S1 E4
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Global warming is influenced by the way humans plan, design and manage their cities and landscapes. Climate-unfriendly practices are the norm. B...
A Landscape Urbanism approach to landscape architecture | S1 E3
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is based on the first chapter of a book by Tom Turner published in 1996: City as landscape. The chapter's title was post-Postmodern...
Modern, postmodern and post-postmodern landscape architecture & urban design | S1 E2
29 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Designers are puzzled, sometimes, about whether their work is Modern, Postmodern or something else. This podcast is based on the Preface to Tom Turner...
The story of landscape architecture, by Tom Turner | S1 E1
15 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Turner takes an overview of landscape architecture, urban design and garden design - their history, theory, position and prospects. As an ar...