‘scape 1-2008 (June)

Theme: Cultural landscapes

Even landscapes die out

The manifestation A Wider View is part of the Triënnale Apeldoorn. It shows the ways in which Europeans have approached their landscape - from agricultural and industrial landscapes to defence and park landscapes.

Man-made landscapes

'Nature as Artifice' is the title of a photography show at the Kröller-Müller museum. Here, contemporary photo artists present their view of the changing Dutch landscape. In doing so, they follow in the footsteps of the great Dutch landscape painters, who of course painted 'from nature', butwere nevertheless fully alive to man-made landscape.

Vistas of the imagination

During Triënnale Apeldoorn, a few dozen original designs from European landscape architecture will be displayed. Together, these offer an idea of landscape architecture's development within the context of the prevailing spirit of the times.

Urbanism of anticipation

As cities undergo constant evolution according to social and economic lfe, we have to develop them with respect to their social and cultural specificities. This requires more than perfect plans: time, sensitive and popular ideas of anticipating the professionally sensible urban transformations.

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News

o Beijing Olympic Forest Park receives IFLA Award

o Finalists of the Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize

o Two winners of the Øresund 2040 competition

o Dutch firms designing cities in the Orient

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Portrait: Petra Blaisse

Petra Blaisse's thinking has never been in stereotypes, not when it concerns people who she engages nor when it is about projects. She is the moving force behind Inside Outside design studio. Her studio has become well known and the challenges accepted by Blaisse and her colleagues have evolved from curtains and gardens to a large park, and an entire cityscape.

Essay: The Rethinking of Fengshui

In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, rapid developments in technology made it seemingly possible for people to change nature, and control nature. However, this disdain of nature becomes ironic as the sea level rises, water resources become scarce and energy starts to run out.

Column

The relation with the territory's scale is very much influenced by the agricultural landscape, its atmosphere, its pattern and even by its remaining fringes, states Henri Bava.

Review: Hybrid spaces

The 21st century's hybridization of space goes beyond the architectural understanding of landscape and urbanism. Contemporary hybrid spaces include the merging of mentalities and utilities, be it of a commercial and a civic life as in Almere, of representation and leisure as in Seattle, or of knowledge and walking as in Brisbane.

Ground plan

The marin chart of Copenhage gives a remarkably good picture of the city itself. It shows the urban heart of the city; a city whose history is inextricably linked with shipping and maritime military activities.  

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