Autumn 2010

This season the RA Architecture Programme explored the notion of landscape as both a conceptual and physical phenomenon through a series of lectures and forums. Architects, artists and designers examined how landscape shapes and is shaped by the relationship between nature and man.

Download the Autumn 2010 architecture programme leaflet (541 KB)

EVENING LECTURE
Peter Rich: Landscape, Nature, Culture and Light

Monday 20 September

South African architect, Peter Rich, presents an array of projects that are deeply embedded in time and place promoting a truly sustainable architecture with a lasting legacy. Read more

EVENING LECTURE
SANAA: Architecture and the Environment

Monday 11 October SOLD OUT

Kazuyo Sejima, principal of acclaimed Japanese architectural practice SANAA and director of the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale discusses how her practice’s work both frames and echoes its natural surroundings. Read more

RA FORUM
Diana Balmori: Landscape Manifesto

Monday 18 October

Internationally acclaimed landscape and urban designer Diana Balmori, proposes a twenty-five-point Landscape Manifesto that seeks to ‘realign’ landscape’s role as a transformative and potentially transgressive art. Read more

RA FORUM
Landscape Urbanism

Monday 15 November SOLD OUT

This event looks at an emerging movement, called landscape urbanism, and how it promises to connect nature and culture more deeply than ever before. Read more

EVENING LECTURE
Carme Pigem of RCR Arquitectes

Tuesday 7 December SOLD OUT

Carme Pigem of RCR discusses the practices work including the much celebrated Bodegas Bell-lloc winery and the Library and centre for the elderly, Barcelona. Read more

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