Wednesday 11 March 2015

Landscape Architecture Open Lecture: Working Landscapes

Ed Wall, University of Greenwich

12.30pm—2pm

Ed Wall is the Academic Leader for Landscape at the University of Greenwich. He is also the founding director of Project Studio, a platform for design and research collaborations which extend from theoretical speculations to detailed built commissions, including: workshop with Architecture Foundation and Royal Academy in 2013, a winning entry for the Biennale of Landscape Urbanism 2010, the London Festival of Architecture 2008 and several international design competitions.

Ed studied landscape architecture at Manchester Metropolitan University and urban design, under Michael Sorkin, at City College New York (CUNY). He has written widely, including articles for Landscape and Topos. Ed co-authored, with Tim Waterman, Basics Landscape Architecture: Urban Design, published in 2009 by AVA Academic Publishing.

Ed has lectured in the UK and abroad. He has been a regular design studio critic at Columbia University GSAPP, City College New York, the Architecture Association and UCL The Bartlett and is currently a Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano. He will be talking about the subject of multi-functional urban landscapes.