Daily Archives: September 1, 2021

Wednesdays, September 8 – September 29, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Unforgettable Gardens: Norfolk, Online

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Enjoy a series of four online talks organized by The Gardens Trust in partnership with Norfolk Gardens Trust, Wednesdays from September 9 – September 29. Register through Eventbrite HERE. Sixteen pounds for the entire course of four sessions.

‘When the biting North Sea winds blows across Norfolk in the depths of Winter, it can sometimes be hard to imagine the beauty of the county’s gardens at the height of Summer. But … Norfolk is home to some of the most wonderful gardens in the country’.

These were the first two lines written by HRH the Prince of Wales, in his Foreword for the Norfolk County Gardens Trust’s gazetteer published in 2013. Of the 320 gardens included in the book, four have been selected to form the September series of Unforgettable Gardens talks. The gardens include the grand and beautiful gardens at Houghton; Great Yarmouth’s Venetian Waterways beloved by generations on holiday and recently rescued from decline; Norwich’s secret Victorian gem, The Plantation Garden; and lastly the Royal gardens at Sandringham, a garden fit for a Queen.

Week One will explore Houghton with Professor Tom Williamson, and Richard and Rosie Ernst. Week Two deals with Great Yarmouth’s Venetian Waterways Renaissance with Darren Barker, Week Three covers the Plantation Garden with Dr. Lesley Kant Cunneen, and the series concludes with Martin Woods speaking on Sandringham park and Gardens.

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Monday, September 13, 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm – Robin Winogrand: In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment, Online

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The replacement of the unique and specific with the generic is a sign of our times. Cities make no exception. In the name of the modern, new and improved, the luring richness, unexpected and uncontrolled are being standardized out of our urban landscapes. The result is often a sterile built environment with scary resemblance to architectural renderings that has little to do with the unfolding of human experience.

Robin Winogrond will show a series of her recent projects in Switzerland and Germany, most often on the urban periphery, which increasingly focus on sussing out the poetic potential of the banality of our contemporary urban landscape. What in a place engages our imagination or leaves us cold? Using a narrative approach, the projects become testing grounds to re-enchant each specific site with the power of its own inherent qualities, expressing the underestimated oddity of place that our contemporary urban landscapes contain.

Robin Winogrond, landscape architect and urban designer, is co-founder of Studio Vulkan Landscape Architecture, in Zurich, Switzerland. She was partner from 2014-2020, a period in which numerous international competitions and prizes were won, most notably the recently completed Zurich Airport Park. While continuing the collaboration with Studio Vulkan, she is working independently and internationally on projects, juries, lecturing, teaching, and publishing. She is currently teaching at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Robin Winogrond works on a wide variety of scales and themes, with a focus on built works as well as large-scale open space and urban design schemes, and site-specific installations. Her work, at once atmospheric and pragmatic in nature, seeks to design but also build powerful experiences of slippery matters such as atmosphere, imagination, the psychology of social space, multifaceted identity of place, and embodied experience. Combining these with the pragmatic nature of building, the projects search to understand and interpret the diverse demands, contradictions and countervailing expectations of the contemporary landscape, especially on the increasingly banal urban periphery, using this productive tension as a driver for developing innovative and experimental design strategies that interpret the conditions of the site and its users.

The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Fall 2021 Public Programs are all virtual and require registration.

Click here to register for Robin Winogrond, “In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment”. The event will also be live streamed to the Harvard GSD YouTube page. Only viewers who are attending the lecture via Zoom will be able to submit questions for the Q+A. If you would like to submit questions for the speaker in advance of the event, please click here. Live captioning will be provided during this event.