FOLAR
Friends of the Landscape Archive at Reading

Past Talks

Friends of the Landscape Archive at Reading

Past Talks

Almost from the outset FOLAR has - with generous permission from our speakers - recorded virtually all the talks we have held at symposia and online.There are currently over 130 recordings available under Past Talks and Specials. The Past Talks section covers topics ranging from the Festival Pleasure Gardens at Battersea Park, Susan Jellicoe’s photographs, The Open Spaces Society, working on Byker in Newcastle with Ralph Erskine to landscape designs that promote human health and well-being.

There are a number of talks that focus on women landscape designers, from Fanny Wilkinson, Marjory Lady Allen of Hurtwood, Brenda Colvin, and Sylvia Crowe in Bristol, to Elisabeth Beazley, Diana Armstrong Bell and other contemporary landscape architects in the can…

Our speakers include past presidents of the Landscape Institute - Brian Clouston, Hal Moggridge, Tim Gale; landscape academics - Ed Bennis, Jan Woudstra, Alan Powers, Luca Csepely-Knorr, Catharine Ward Thompson; historians - Elain Harwood, John Boughton, Katrina Navikas; practitioners – Annie Coombs; Neil Chapman, Jennette Emery-Wallis, Paul Rabbitts, Ian Baggott,  young researchers – Joy Burgess, Sally Watson, Karen Fitzsimon and many more.

The Specials section includestalks celebrating the life and works of two of the Institute’s significant practitioners – Bran Clouston and Hal Moggridge;  and a series of twenty one talks on the C20 designed landscapes that were added to the Historic England register in 2021.

So how can anybody find anything in all these recordings?  The quickest way is to use the search box – type in a strong and simple key word linked with what you are searching for, eg play, Jellicoe, Sweden, and hopefully you will find something that is useful for you.

 

High buildings and skylines

Talks created for the Landscape Hour series and held during the first Covid shut-down days in spring 2020. These were instigated by Tom Turner and Robert Holden and organised in association with LI London, the Landscape Architecture Association and FOLAR. The aim was to gather online to watch ‘together’ and chat while they played. The talks are about 30 minutes and followed by a Q&A session. Further discussion ensued on Twitter. Please include the hashtag #LandscapeHour. This first Season was in three parts.

Videos

  1. The future landscape of high buildings: a world overview by Benz Kotzen (top right)

  2. London high rise debate - skyline and skyspace planning and design by Tom Turner

  3. London high rise debate - high-rise buildings in London by Robert Holden

Speakers: Benz Kotzen, Tom Turner, Robert Holden
April 19, 2020 online

Annabel Downs