[Book]Detail In Contemporary Landscape Architecture

This book illustrates the details in landscape architecture. It uses some of the biggest, well known projects. This book is a great start in understanding detail.

[Lecture]Caroline Swann - Hillier Nursery Ltd

Note Takings from the Caroline Swann's Lecture.

Tree specification
Trees and planting
Trees for the future

Hillier Nursery Ltd is the largest tree nursery in the U.K.

Why tree?
1. sense of places
2. people like
3. bring the countryside in to the town
4. can be great design feature ex) cube tree..
5. absorb CO2
6. provide shelter and shade
7. reduce flash flooding (good for environment)

for the future...
+ Start now to get to know tree species.
+ Trees are an important and very creative design detail
+ Understand how to specify trees
+ Plant for today but its for the future

[Exhibition] Miroslaw Balka: How it is

I met a impressive conceptual art in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.

'How it is' is Miroslaw Balka's immense huge steel container and it takes visitors into the heart of darkness. Everyone wants to see what's in there, to know how it's done.

Before entering the container, I was really afraid about what is inside. However, actually there was nothing. It was just empty. That is his intention.

I felt manipulated, for instance, to begin with: drawn into and through the darkness by animal curiosity. Everyone wants to see what's in there, to know how it's done. And the space has its obvious associations. Once you have run through them – occupied the space with your thoughts, as it were – what's left?

[Lecture]Kim Wilkie

“Kim had an intense introduction to landscape. He grew up in the Malaysian jungle and Iraqi desert before being sent to school in southern England. Having studied history at Oxford and environmental design at the University of California, Berkeley, Kim set up his landscape studio in London in 1989. He is fascinated by the link between land and culture and between memory and imagination.”


I joined Kim's lecture as one of the detail week programmes. He outlined the three main themes towards a successful landscape- Survival, Cohabitation and Joy. The lecture and his works were unique and fantastic.

Here is his practice website: Kim Wilkie Associates - http://www.kimwilkie.com/

David Chipperfield - Form Matters

David Chipperfield is a london based architect. The exhibition contained lots of his models and concept, plan drawings so I was enable to look at the process of his design works. And I was impressive by the way of displaying. His building designs hugely and clearly drawn on the white wall and it were so effective. So that I could think if I have an opportunity to show my work how should I do be effective.

Fascinating concept drawings.

Using different materials for making models was interesting.

Cross section-5 Musée du Quai Branly

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Musée du Quai Branly in Paris

1:100 scale cross section drawing at A2

Cross section-4 The Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir

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The Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir in Paris
1:100 scale cross section drawing at A2

Cross section-3 The Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir

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The Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir in Paris

1:100 scale cross section drawing at A2

Cross section-2 The Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir

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The Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir in Paris
1:100 scale cross section drawing at A2

Cross section-1 The Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir

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The Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir in Paris

1:100 scale cross section drawing at A2