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.
Hemel Hempstead Water Gardens - FOLAR site visit [no recording]May 18, 2019FOLAR led by Oliver Rock and Katharina Erne, HTA Design LLP landscape architects, on a guided walk around the newly restored Water Gardens in Hemel Hempstead. The Water Gardens...
Read MoreFive Ways - to interrogate, be inspired and learn from the Landscape Architecture Drawings at the MERL - FOLAR AGM and TALKS [no recording made] Speakers included Guy Baxter, Marylla Hunt, Oliver Rock, Colin Moore; Karen Fitzsimon…
Read MoreA series of six talks looking at changes in the agricultural landscapes from post war Britain to Brexit and beyond. Now is potentially a pivotal moment to improve the nation’s agricultural policies. What are the gains and the losses? How is change effected across such a varied landscape?
Read MoreThe University of Reading is a highly appropriate venue for a symposium on the education of landscape architects and managers in England. Why is Reading so significant for landscape architecture? It’s simple really, because this is where the first university course in Landscape Architecture in England was established.
Read MoreFive short talks from key speakers, all shedding light and reviewing elements and ideas from this period and on new towns that have relevance today: The speakers included: Oliver Rock, Elain Harwood, Caroline Gould, Tom Turner - who presented and discussed this video...
Read MoreCoinciding with the donation of the Brenda Colvin archive to the LI collection at The MERL, her practice partner Hal Moggridge talks about her life and work as a practising landscape architect, and equally significantly, about her role as one of the founders of the Institute of Landscape Architects in 1929.
Read MoreFOLAR Friends of Landscape Institute archive and library was launched at The MERL, University of Reading, on Saturday 15th February 2014. This article contains notes from this seminal meeting, led by Penny Beckett FLI and Helen Tranter FLI who were appointed in this meeting as Chair and Vice Chair along with a small committee to establish the Friends Group.
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