Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten - Lecture, 04.03.10

Hotel Greulich, Zürich (note the drain cover under the image of nature)

A very interesting lecture from Gunther Vogt, in contrast to the work of Gross Max, where I spent some of my placement.

Some of the interesting points from the lecture:

- The difficulty of landscape architecture, in that has a difficult relation to scale and time.

- Suspicion of contemporary architecture's desire to control and create a false image of nature through living walls and green atria.

- Architects tend only to be interested in very particular parts of landscape architecture; perennials and living walls.

- Loss of agency of landscape architects as a discipline due to a tendency towards graphic design in practice.

- The distance between trees in a project is not based on biological reasons, but should be a design decision.

- Landscape design in an urban context should be simple to deal with the complexity of the city.

- Especially in Europe, the distinction between native and exotic plants is a false one, since it is impossible to tell which plants are truly native (especially in a time of climate change)