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CPD: Conceptualisation and Abstraction
As part of our ongoing professional development, Eike Selby our Head of Design held a two part internal design workshop challenging the design team to think conceptually through abstraction, extrapolation and representation.
5 steps to your perfect garden design – step 3d, a recipe for planting delights
Part 4 - Favourite Plants. A fantastic blog about plants and all the wonderful 'must haves' for your garden, if nothing else loads of wonderful inspiration as you think about flowers in your garden for summer.
Workshop: Sensing the Environment
On site sketching is more than just an observational exercise. What we try and capture when we sketch should be more emotive and an exercise in deconstructing the essence of a space. Exploring juxtapositions, contrasts, light and shadow. Our Head of Design Eike Selby was invited to lead a series of on-site workshops teaching architectural students how to perceive their environments.
CPD: Landscape Architecture Between Assemblage & Morphosis
A very engaging and inspirational CPD with Cristina Morbi, Creative Director of DeThUn, discussing conceptual thinking and how we can imagine new ways of designing landscapes, not just as a series of patterns, shapes and objects, but more as a transition of spaces in time.
CPD: Environmental Design, Urban Microclimates
A very eye opening and informative CPD by Mehrdad Borna, Design Studio Leader, School of Architecture & Cities from the University of Westminster on Urban Microclimates, the first in a series of our Environmental Design CPD sessions planned for this year. This will help us truly understand the way we approach our designs, with environmental and sustainable principles becoming the core driving factors together with our unique conceptual design process.
2020 – What a year!
A visual look back at all we achieved as a team, in what was probably the strangest year of our lifetime.
5 steps to your perfect garden design – step 3c, a recipe for planting delights
Part 3 - Form. A review of how to create stucture through different styles of plants within dedicated spaces. Read on, if you are embarking on a new garden design.
Why is landscaping so expensive?
A look at some of the hidden costs as to why landscaping is so expensive. Worth knowing before you start on any landscaping garden project especially the big ones.
5 Steps to your perfect garden design – Step 3b, a recipe for planting delights
Part 2 - Structural Planting A detailed look at how the structure your garden needs to be really considered before embarking on a planting scheme
800 projects and still learning – lessons for garden designers
A fascinating personal reflection from Ruth Marshall our CEO on design learnings over the last 800 projects and 20 years in garden design.
Sketching and the art of visualisation for landscape professionals
In this blog we take a look at sketching and the art of visualisation for landscape professionals. How do you best demonstrate the finished design with a client?
What is Landscape?
To be a successful Landscape Architect you have to challenge perceptions and break conventions - check out our latest blog asking the question "what is Landscape?"