Welcome to our online lecture series.
Professor Hu Jie
Shan-Shui City: Exploring Sustainable City Development in China.
After working for Sasaki Associates (http://www.sasaki.com) as senior landscape architect for eight years, and winning the competition for the Beijing Olympic Forest Park he joined the Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute in 2003 as the director and chief designer.
Kongjian Yu
Beautiful Big Feet. Toward a new Landscape Aesthetic.
Kongjian Yu is one of the most influential landscape architects / landscape planners. He has received numerous awards for his innovative projects in landscape and urbanism in major cities around the world. Among his most acclaimed projects are Houtan Park for Shanghai Expo, the Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdao and Shipyard Park in Zhongshan.
The Story Behind the Olympic Park by Professor Nigel Dunnett and Professor James Hitchmough
Professor Nigel Dunnett and Professor James Hitchmough talk about their involvement with the Olympic Park.
Nigel and James also recently spoke to the Landscape Institute as part of a series of interviews on the role of Landscape Architects in the Olympic Games. Click here to see the video.
To find out more visit: http://www.landscapeinstitute.org/olympics
Olympic Park Lecture by Phil Askew, Professor Nigel Dunnett & Professor James Hitchmough
On the evening of Wednesday 25th April, Phil Askew, Project Sponsor for Parks and the Public Realm, Olympic Delivery Authority, gave a presentation on the London 2012 Olympic Park.
Phil Askew will describe the design process, key elements, delivery and implementation of what is the largest new urban park to be developed in Europe for the past 150 years. The opening of the London Olympic Park will be the most high-profile event in the Landscape Architecture world in 2012.
For the first time in the modern history of the Olympic Games, the London Olympic Park has received as much design attention as the Olympic buildings and venues, and the park is central to the long-term legacy of the London games.
The University of Sheffield and the Department of Landscape has been at the heart of the design process for the London Olympic Park from the outset.
Professors James Hitchmough and Nigel Dunnett introduce the event with a short introduction to the role of the Department of Landscape in the design and implementation of the London Olympic Park.