X-LArch 2 - landscape-X-periments - program 2006

Thursday, April 27th, 2006, 8:00 - 19:00 registration required Erwin Frohmann, Dagmar Grimm-Pretner, Bianca Maria Rinaldi and Philipp Rode will lead through the day and will moderate the discussions after each lecture. 08:00 Registration 08:30 Address of Welcome Josef PRÖLL, Federal Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, and Water Management Herbert DÜRRSTEIN, Rector of the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna  Thomas KNOLL, Secretary of the Austrian Society of Landscape Architecture and Planning (ÖGLA) 09:00 Lilli LICKA, Head of ILA, Institute of Landscape Architecture/BOKU Vienna and KoseLicka Landscape X-periments - about landscapearchitectural design approaches investigating landscape architecture in urbia and suburbia as scholar and practitioner, teaching at the BOKU, heading the institute of landscape architecture at BOKU since 2003, founder and partner of KoseLicka, landscape architects, Vienna since 1991. www.koselicka.at 10:00 Stefan BENDIKS, Artgineering/Rotterdam Neighbourize co-partner of the interdisciplinary office Artgineering based in Rotterdam, together with Aglaée Degros. The office devises and implements design strategies whose effects extend beyond the built boundary. Inspired by the beauty in the banal, their work re-interprets the relation of built environment, landscape and infrastructure. www.artgineering.nl 11:00 Coffee Break 11:30 Alenka KORENJAK, Masa CVETKO, Ana CELIGOJ, ProstoRoz/Ljubljana ProstoRoz The group explores degraded urban situations, addresses the problems of public open space and searches for new modes of utilisation. In 2004 the Ma2 group realised their first project, entitled “ProstoRoz”, creating temporary installations highlighting the potential of courtyard situations in the centre of the old town. In the following year the group suggested the redefinition of urban green spaces through the installation of innovative park equipment. 12:30 Véronique FAUCHER, Marc POUZOL, atelier le balto/Berlin Where is The Art of gardening? As city planner (IFU Paris) and landscape architect  (ENSP Versailles) by training, we work mainly on redefining and improving public and semi-public spaces in an urban environment. We try to recognize and understand their qualities, as well as to assess and show their potentials for improvement and appropriate transformation. The great majority of creations by our Berlin-based studio atelier le balto (foundation 2001) are gardens, places of communication and interaction. www.lebalto.de 13:30 Lunch Buffet 14:30 Martin PROMINSKI/Uni Hannover The Complexity of Landscape Architecture Since 2003 Assistant Professor for Theory of Contemporary Landscape Architecture at University of Hannover. He studied in Berlin and Harvard and worked for Atelier Loidl in Berlin and Hargreaves Associates in Cambridge/ MA. His ph.d. thesis („Landschaft entwerfen“, Berlin 2004) connects contemporary philosophy of science with landscape and design theory. www.ila.uni-hannover.de/tala 15:30 Gareth DOHERTY, Harvard University, Cambridge/USA Landscape as Urbanism Since 2005 a doctoral candidate at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and previously studied at the University of Pennsylvania and University College Dublin. Has worked with CHORA architecture and urbanism since 2000 on projects in Ireland and the UK. His research focuses on landscape and urbanism. gdoherty(at)gsd.harvard.edu 16:30 Coffee Break 17:00 Frank LOHRBERG, lohrberg stadtlandschaftsarchitektur, Stuttgart Recultivation 21 Foundation of Bureau lohrberg stadtlandschaftsarchitektur in 2002. Work focuses on landscape planning and design in conurbations by promoting urban forestry and urban agriculture. Several projects, e.g. the Masterplan Emscher Landschaftspark 2010 in the Ruhr area. Lecturer at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. www.lohrberg.de 18:00 - 19:00 Bart BRANDS, Karres en Brands/Hilversum LArch to the Max Director of Karres en Brands together with Sylvia Karres. Winner of the European Landscape Award 2004. Their active engagement with issues beyond vegetation and planting, and in particular their investigations into the ‘urban landscape’, have led to important new models for the integration of architecture and the environment. Currently Bart Brands is adjunct professor at RMIT University (Melbourne). 19:00 Reception with Cheese and Wine