Lecture date: 2013-11-22
How should the principles of the urban landscape be understood and what possibilities does this environment offer to the designer? Understanding landscape in terms of its archetype entails going out into nature. In Switzerland extreme geological phenomena are as omnipresent as they are self-evident, and their secrets are obscured by their very familiarity. In England, however, the geology lies hidden in the landscape in a more subtle way. It has to be consciously discovered, traversed and discerned beneath the surface. Using examples from both Switzerland and England, Günther Vogt will highlight differences in designs and similarities in current projects’ processes.
Günther Vogt opened VOGT Case Studio in 2010. Since 2005, he has been Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich
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