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Wednesday 1 March 2017

Jandirk Hoekstra: Room for the River

Master of Landscape Architecture Open Lectures 2017

5.30pm—7.30pm

R4R is one of the most ambitious and forward thinking strategies for water management in the world, covering the whole of the Netherlands and 4 river catchments. Two speakers who have been involved in its delivery will bring different professional and personal perspectives to the discussion of this project and the challenges it highlights for us all.

Jandirk Hoekstra (H+N+S, Netherlands)  is a landscape architect as well as a musician and composer. In a country where water is the driving force in all planning and design, he has become a leading authority on large scale, strategic landscape planning with much of his work centred on issues of coastal and flood planning. As leader of the Studio Coastal Quality he led the development of concepts for the future of the Dutch coast and he has worked on major projects abroad, in China and South Africa. This talk will focus on the work of his practice H+N+S on the Nijmegen section of the vast Room for the River project.

With introduction by Richard Coutts (BACA Architects). Richard is co-founder and director of BACA Architects, one of the UK’s leading specialist practices in the field of flood-resilient architecture and water-driven spatial-planning. Among many water-related projects, BACA have also worked on proposals at Nijmegen, as part of Room for the River. Richard has co-authored a book ‘Aquatecture’ which summarises the approach and experience of the practice. He will introduce and contextualise the main lecture.

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Part of the Master of Landscape Architecture Open Lecture Series.

Sponsored by Green and Blue Urban.

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