DOUGLAS SPENCER IN TRENTO UNIVERSITY

AA Landscape Urbanism history and theory tutor Douglas Spencer will lecture in Italy at Trento University's Faculty of Engineering on "AA Landscape Urbanism: A Renewed Praxis" on 18 November. Considering a range of contemporary urban conditions operating outside those of the discipline's original North American and Westernised telos of the 'post-industrial' and 'post-urban', in this lecture he will argue for a critically-oriented renewal of Landscape Urbanism's theory and practice

JORGE AYALA IN CONVERSATION WITH PEI ZHOU STUDIO, 6TH NOVEMBER 2009

AALU graduate currently working with Groundlab in Beijing, will be heading a discussion panel in Pei Zhu office, Beijing. The title of the lecture will be Landforms, Horizontality, Infrastructure, Techniques....

ALFREDO RAMIREZ IN WELSH SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

AALU tutor Alfredo ramirez will be giving a presentation on Monday 02nd November in the Welsh School of Architecture showcasing AALU projects where sustainability has had a major role within the design. (image above from Responsive Coastline, Alejandra Bosch, AALU 0607)

DOUGLAS SPENCER IN AHO OSLO

Douglas spencer will be partcipating in the critics of diploma projects in the Landscape Architecture program in AHO Oslo .

AALU 0809 PROJECTS

WENWEN WANG

NAOMI PEREZ-DAVIDI

ANKITA GUPTA

RENITA DE SOUZA

SOHAIL GHANDILI

WANG SHAN

RAHUL PAUL

MINJOO BAEK

CRISTINA BARRIOS

SOGOL ATIGECHI

BURCU KARAHASAN

AALU OPEN DAY 9th OCTOBER 2009

AALU OPEN DAY FRIDAY 9th OCTOBER

AA Landscape Urbanism will held an open day on Friday 9th of October in London, where the projects from 0809 students will be shown to the public and commented by a panel of international experts. The purpose of this event is to generate debate around the emergent discipline of landscape urbanism and evaluate the relevance of the course work within academic and practice environments.

AALU FINAL PRESENTATION

The work of the students of AA landscape Urbansim will be showcased on a presntation which will be held on 25th September in the AA premises, Ground floor 16 Morwell street. The presentaiton will take place from 10:30AM onwards and will consist on a series of presentations given by the students followed by a short discussion form a panel of invited critics. This panel wil be formed by:

Ivan valdez Torrico (AALU grad, Zaha hadid architects)

Jose Arnaud (AALU graduate)

Ilaria di Carlo (AALU graduate, SOM)

Bridget Mckean (AALU graduate, Foster and Partners)

Teru Nalsist (AADip)

Jeff Turko (UEL+AADip tutor)

AALU GRADUATE FIRST PRIZE: NET-WORKED TERRITORIES, JORGE AYALA

Based on a process of landscape indexing and mapping, Jorge’s project seeks to tackle the real estate sameness, always related to the development of the so called family-resorts that have proliferated along the Mexican Pacific Coast.
The project proposes a network of Landscapes, tropical trees and plantations preventing excessive erosion and polluted water infiltration. Diverse plants and species were assigned to respond to different watershed conditions, creating the infrastructure for agriculture, leisure and controlled tourism development.
The hexagonal prototypes seek to produce an assemblage between two elements of the project:
the water edges and the nature, as a speculation on how 2 natural processes may be able to generate new forms of mutual enhancement. Physical model helped control the territory and to measure the circulation between each of these prototypes.

Authors, Jorge Ayala, Minche Mena, Priscila Lozano Cusi

AALU STAFF FIRST PRIZE: CALES URBANES, ALFREDO RAMIREZ

Alfredo Ramirez (Groundlab), Clara Oloriz and Felipe Garcia have won an ideas competition for the regeneration of the Av. Barcelona in Miami Platja, Catalonia. The project encompasses an area of over 90,000 m2 of linear public network along the length of the avenue.

The proposal Cales Urbanes recovers the concept of ramble to reconnect the coastline with the city through a braided network of greenery, open space, pathways, cycle paths, transport system and public programme, integrating an infrastructural landscape that harvests and recycles water while working as a storm water drainage system, creating, maintaining and managing the project.

LANDSCAPE URBANSIM IN THE AA PROJECTS REVIEW

The work of Landscape Urbanism is currently being shown in the AA until the end of August. The material includes work in progress of the stundets projects, as well as explorations during different workshops and the production of the Metropoli Workshop held in Alicante

LANDSCAPE URBANISM PRESENTATION

The LU students presented their work on progress on a public pinup held at the AA on the 22nd June. Their work will be shown also in the projects review exhibition held at the AA opening on the 3rd of July. The jury included the following external guests:
Jose Arnaud (AALU Grad)
Yacira Blanco (AALU Grad, ZHL)
Tomaz Pipan (AALU Grad, Gustafson Porter)
Io Karidi (AALU Grad, Haregreaves associates)
Jeff Turko (AADip tutor, UEL DIp Tutor, Nekton Architecture principal)
Ivan Valdez (AALU Grad, ZHL)
Caludia Pasquero AAInt tutor, EcoLogic Studio principal)

LANDSCAPE URBANISM IN DONGHUA UNIVERSITY, SHANGHAI

Eva Castro and Alfredo Ramirez gave a lecture in the Doghuan University in Shanghai about the work of Landscape Urbanism and Groundlab.

AALU WORK PUBLISHED

The content of the project o Katia Larina has been published in the January issue of Landscape Archietcture Magazine (China). The work of Groundlab + Plasmastudio for the World Horticultural Expo in Xian, has also been published in the latest issue of AV arquitectura (Spain)

0708 AALU LECTURER BOOK RELEASE: RICHARD WELLER

Richard weller has recently released his book Boomtown 2050, scenarios for a rapidly growing city. The book contains the explorations for scenarios of growth in the city of Perth, where the interplay between conceptions of landscape urban design becomes key in understanding the future of a city which is planned to boom to int ssurroundign territories. Richard gave a lecture in 2007 showing his work during the 0708 Landscape Urbansim lecture series at the AA.

LANDSCAPE URBANISM IN ALICANTE

The trip was also complemented with a lecture of Eduardo Rico at the University of Alicante as well as a presentation of the students in the Fundacion Metropoli as part of the closing of the workshop and opening of the AALU exhibition in the Fundacion.

LANDSCAPE URBANISM IN ENSA PARIS 18TH MARCH

AALU Graduate Jorge Martinez Ayala will be giving a talk in the university of Paris Malaquais outlining the new research lines set by Landscape Urbaism as a new discipline.

THE WORK OF PLASMASTUDIO + GROUNDLAB IN XIAN UNIVERSITY

Holger Kehne Ulla Hell and Alfredo Ramirez gave a joint lecture at Xian University on the 9th March 2009. The lecture focuses on the multiscalarity and transdisciplinary approach that permeates the work of Plasmastudio and Groundlab. A diverse range of projects from furniture and interior design to buildings and masterplanning were shown to depict the main principles behind the practices that connects them in a local, regional and global scales. Furthermore the lecture served to introduce to the public of Xian the winning competition entry for the Horticultural Fair of 2011 in Xian City China.