Taken from www.ohchr.org the United Nations Human Rights site. BRUSSELS (22 June 2010) – “Governments and international agencies urgently need to boost ecological farming techniques to increase food production and save the climate,” said UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, while presenting the findings at an international meeting on agroecology […]

The essence of the “Wild Side” landscape vision is new farming methods that will transform the site into an official “High Nature Value” area. This designation describes certain types of agriculture that increase the biodiversity and ecological health of farmland. This plan has three layers. First, a network of hedgerows is re-established on existing parcel […]

The project brief was to design a temporary public garden in a building construction site ( a 160m x 60m 6m deep construction pit!) along the banks of the Ij river. I chose to create an urban farm for the production of fruits, vegetables, and high value crops in modular planters on a scaffold system […]

Graphic interpretation of Deleuze’s text as a formal study. What is the space between the orchid and the wasp? By deconstructing sets of corresponding images into vectors, I searched for volumetric recombinations describing a new space.    

Quote from Alan Berger, professor at MIT and director of the laboratory for design research called P-REX, The Project For Reclamation Excellence (www.theprex.net) “The main issue for me is that landscape architecture is not doing a great job addressing the larger-scale environmental issues that are currently affecting urbanized regions in the world. Rather, landscape architecture […]

Dennis Moet is author of “Autarkische Wonen” and a number of other works dedicated to framing contemporary views on sustainability within urbanism and architecture. He currently works as a senior advisor on water, climate, and sustainability at ARCADIS (www.arcadis.nl.) I was recently able to ask him some questions about sustainability and urbanism in the context […]

Time Out : Visions of Amsterdam 2020 LAgroup is a leisure and arts consultancy firm that has developed plans for the Amsterdam Hermitage, the NDSM, Paradiso and the Westergasfabriek. Concepts by Johan Idema Illustrations by Jacques Abelman Where have all the mavericks gone? To make Amsterdam a truly world-class city, we need grand projects that […]

8mb PDF_Jacques_Abelman_Landscape Park Proposal Project Brief from instructor Patrick McCabe ( www.redscape.nl ) Based on the classic Dutch concept of compact city, Utrecht has undergone major transformations in the last ten years. Intensification of urban areas, the realisation of Leidse Rijn (VINEX) and countless large infrastructure projects have been key steps in the city’s ambition […]

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The Form Study classes at the Academy pair architecture / urbanism / landscape students with practitioners from outside their discipline in order to venture into uncharted waters of design experience. For eight weeks I had the pleasure of working with Pieke Bergmans, a dutch industrial designer with playful and sharp ideas. In this vormstudie we […]