Landscape Architecture Seminar & Topos Landscape Award, Krakow 18th-19th June 2010
Venue: Krakow City Hall, Pl. Wszystkich Świętych 3/4
Honorary Patron: Mayor of the City of Krakow Mr Jacek Majchrowski
Patron: European Federation for Landscape Architecture ![]()
AGENDA
Friday, 18th June
| 09.15 | Opening |
| 09.30 | Nigel Thorne (EFLA President) |
| 09.45 | prof. Aleksander Bohm (Landscape Architecture Institute, Cracow University of Technology) |
| 10.15 | Artur Bronisz (Landscape Architecture Association, SAK) |
| 10.45 | Coffee break |
| 11.15 | London's Great Outdoors, Eleanor Fawcett (Design for London, London) |
| 11.45 | Term/Definition/Identity: Regenerating Landscape Architecture in the Era of Landscape Urbanism, Susannah C. Drake (dlandstudio, New York) |
| 12.15 | Landscape Urbanism for after-moderns cities. The example of Milan, Andreas Kipar (Kiparland, Milan) |
| 12.45 | Lunch |
| 13.45 | Anna Krzyzanowska (ZIKiT, Krakow) |
| 14.00 | Landscape design: a driving factor in local urban development, Ela Chojecka (West 8, Rotterdam) |
| 14.30 | Landscape Architecture and Public Space in Beirut, Vladimir Djurovic (Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture, Beirut) |
| 15.00 | [biocity] paradigms and Project, Adrian Mc Gregor (McGregor+Coxall, Sydney) |
| 15.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.00 | Topos Awards Ceremony with lecture "Speculations on Landscape Urbanism" by Chris Reed (stosslandscapeurbanism, Boston) Topos Award laureate |
| 17.30 | Adjourn |
19.00 Gala dinner & concert at Villa Decius
Saturday, 19th June (optional programme)
Ojców National Park - Pieskowa Skała Castle - Wieliczka Salt Mine. A trip to visit the jurassic landscapes of Ojców National Park, crowned with an unforgettable dinner held in the underground chambers of the Wieliczka Salt Mine.
Pieskowa Skała (Pieskowa Rock), first mentioned before 1315 as "castrum Peskenstein", is located in the valley of river Prądnik, 27 km north of Kraków, within the boundaries of the Ojców National Park. Pieskowa Skała is famous for its Renaissance castle built by King Kazimierz Wielki in the 1st half of the 14th century as part of the defensive chain of castles called Orle Gniazda (Eagles Nests)
The Wieliczka Salt Mine is one of the most valuable cultural monuments in Poland, visited each year by over a million tourists from around the world. It is also a world class historical monument and as such is inscribed in UNESCO's First World List of Cultural and Natural Heritage.
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