Mission: to share the joy of designed landscapes of 1945-1999, mostly but not exclusively in UK. @KarenFitzsimon @LandscapeWomen Insta handle postwarlandscape
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A Living Library the revival and relevance of post-war designed landscapes - Issuu. The story so far...by @KarenFitzsimon issuu.com/landscape-institut…
Booking at bucksgardenstrust.org.uk/eve…
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6pm tomorrow.Broadwater Park - corporate designed landscape.?Booking folar.uk/events/why-so-speci…
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Free event online tomorrow: Post War Designed Landscapes: Round-Table Discussion Tickets, Sat 4 Sep 2021 at 11:00 | Eventbrite eventbrite.co.uk/e/post-war-…
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Reposting from @C20Cymru these photos by Jonathan Vining of the astonishing Argoed High School, by Clwyd county architect, K J Denley (1977-81) - a Welsh country cousin of Pimlico.
Inevitably currently unlisted and at risk.
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Architect and landscape designer Peter Aldington was born on this day in 1933. After working for the LCC, he went into private practice, desiging many houses, including his own, Turn End in Haddenham, Bucks, where he still lives with his wife, Margaret modernism-in-metroland.co.uk…
Architects,landscape architects&clients need2be brave-repurpose buildings rather than demolish. @PhinHarper theguardian.com/commentisfre…? @KarenFitzsimon A Living Library the revival and relevance of post-war designed landscapes - issuu.com/landscape-institut…
There's a simple way to make our cities greener – without a wrecking ball. These arguments apply to the post-war designed landscapes too. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Great work & fabulous to see our next generation of practitioners embracing #postwarinfrastructure and using archives so effectively.
RESEARCH METHODS
Infrastructure of power production and environmental amelioration
Great student work shorturl.at/hzDIW
Thanks goes to @archivesgb @TheMERL @NCMME @AdamCLines @YorkshireFilm @JamesODavies @PostWarInfrast1 @ahrcpress @LandscapeDecis1 @TheMSArch @lucaknorr
Tickets still available! It will be great but sad that it’s the last of the current lecture series. #pwdl
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Lucky escape- American modernism saved. I know it’s nothing new & that leaders the world over have done it before-but it doesn’t seem right that one president can dictate public architectural & artistic output. Strange notion of freedom & democracy.
Biden signals intent to make America modernist again | New president revokes Trump’s controversial classical architecture order (reporting by @swix) ow.ly/idQt50DNyo8
The post war designed landscape is part of this story.They provide so much to support our lives.But always room2examine further how they can help us in our response to climate emergency from grounds maintenance techniques to heritage sensitive repurposing. Hold onto that carbon!
Architectural History + Climate Emergency: 2021 Annual Symposium #CallforPapers Submission deadline is 12 March 2021 #climatechange #climateemergency #architecture
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Photo credit: Beth Chatto Gardens by @HistoricEngland
Really looking forward to this lecture. Gardens....where the story so often begins!
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This Friday...double act @lucaknorr @KarenFitzsimon to bring you some of the great stories about post-war designed landscapes of England’s public & private housing developments.
Dr. Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr with Karen Fitzsimon @KarenFitzsimon speak about housing landscapes in the post-war period, in the lecture:
‘An Abundance of Green and Open Spaces’ - Friday the 19th of February, 10:30 – 12:00 GMT
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These tiny unusable spaces will be resultant 'landscape' @HomesForLambeth @OurCentralHill Hardly conducive to post-covid19 green recovery. Rosemary Stjernstedt knew what she was doing. That skill, heritage, architectural & green legacy should be respected.
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Compare what we have with what is proposed - from @googlemaps vs @HomesForLambeth fly-over. Unacceptable loss of green space. Post-covid19 recovery must be green led.
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Hot on my last tweet re demise of SylviaCrow work - are female designers being intentionally written out of our built heritage? Truslove might be much smaller than Stjernstedt's work at Alton Estate but clearly setting Truslove in a landscape setting was equally NB 2her here.
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Excellent weekend listen as you potter about. Lament the loss of #SylviaCrowe #CommonwealthInstitute You can read my rant on the Instagram post.
Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/CLOsPXzglS3/…
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Brilliant talk by @downs_annabel for @PWLandscape how historically we designed for burying and memorialising our dead; ideas and lessons for the future with limited land available
5th in the hugely popular post-war lecture series on post-war designed landscapes- @downs_annabel landscape architect & former @talklandscape archivist on Memorial Landscapes- Fri. 12th Feb. 10.30am. eventbrite.co.uk/e/englands-…