ALFREDO RAMIREZ LECTURES IN KW INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, BERLIN

Alfredo Ramirez will be giving a talk within the "Free Space Design in the Contemporary City" Colloquium at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 30th March 2012. The lecture will deal with the way in which Groundlab and Landscape Urbanism engage with the concept of the ground, both as a spatial strategy but also as a generator of a wider perspective to think about cities, territories and ecologies.

LANDSCAPE URBANISM IN RARA MAGAZINE

December issue of the RaRa Magazine (issue 5) includes an article on Landscape Urbanism as design discipline, outlining both one of its main academic roots in the Architectural Association AALU as well as describing the work of some of its practitioners (GroundLab, Plasmastudio, [Ay] studio). Special thanks to Diana Araya for writing the article.

PROJECTING READINGS, ESSAY BY ALFREDO RAMIREZ, EVA CASTRO, EDUARDO RICO PUBLISHED

"Projecting readings: Indexes and diagrams in Landscape Urbanism" essay has been published within "Represeting Landscapes" Routledge book edited by Nadia Amoroso:
"Nadia Amoroso has compiled successful and eye-catching drawings using various drawing styles and techniques to create this book of drawing techniques for landscape architects to follow and - more importantly - to be inspired by. More than twenty respected institutions have helped to bring together the very best of visual representation of ideas, the most powerful, expressive and successful images. Professors from these institutions provide critical and descriptive commentaries, explaining the impact of using different media to represent the same landscape"

more info: HERE