Landscape Architects of the World, Unite! Professional organizations, practice, and politics, 1935-1948
Landscoping – Teaching experiments in and around Geneva
Constructing Landscape Conceptions
Adding Third Nature to Second Nature – Design Strategies for Peripheral
Under the Sky
Landscape Architects of the World, Unite! Professional organizations, practice, and politics, 1935-1948 Dorothée Imbert, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Abstract This article describes the shaping of the modern landscape architecture profession in Western Europe through the lens of international
congresses and associations that took place and were created during the period 1935-1948. The tangible legacy of these years remains the International
Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), founded in 1948 through the efforts of landscape architects from 15 national professional organizations.
Although the birth of IFLA appeared essentially tied to postwar Europe, it also addressed more general questions regarding the profession, namely its future,
its visibility within the design world, and its educational standards. These were all issues that had dominated prewar international meetings. The congresses
of Brussels (1935), Paris (1937), Berlin (1938), and Zurich (1939) offered a means to broaden the forum for discussion and strengthen a nascent profession.
In addition, the Association Internationale des Architectes de Jardins Modernistes (AIAJM), which followed the 1937 Paris meeting, looked toward the
Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) as a model for a modernist alliance between landscape architects and architects and urbanists. Therefore,
one can consider the international congresses and organizations as a register of a changing landscape architecture profession, in its practice, and its
relation to other design disciplines and political currents.
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Landscoping – Teaching experiments in and around Geneva Sandra Parvu and Eunate Torres, Institute of Architecture, University of Geneva
Abstract This article is an account of teaching experiments realized in the context of a design studio and a visual studies seminar part
of the Architecture and Landscape postgraduate programme at the University of Geneva. Its purpose is to develop a new set of representation tools
and working processes interacting with particular sites through an approach that goes beyond the boundaries of the discipline of landscape architecture,
and maybe even beyond the notion of discipline as such. The text does not claim to build a complete and theoretical picture, but attempts to convey the
knowledge of making hat emerges from this work in progress. As such, it accompanies the handmade material resulting from these experiments. Discussions
include the work of video and land artists, documentary and experimental filmmakers, choreographers and dancers such as Gerry Schum, Agnès Varda,
Alexander Medvedkin, Andreï Tarkovski, Anna Halprin and Maya Deren.
Under the SkyComplex concepts and controlling designs – Charles Jencks’ Landform at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Catharine Ward Thompson
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