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Research Seminar – New Grounds for Landscape Architecture
4 May, 2016 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Research Seminar
Topic:
New Grounds for Landscape Architecture
Speaker:
Mr. Matthew Pryor
Head and Assistant Professor
Division of Landscape Architecture
The University of Hong Kong
Schedule:
Wednesday, 4 May 2016 (13:00-14:00)
Room 829, Knowles Building
The University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
As urban centres densify, the ground plane becomes an increasingly contested surface. To maintain flow, pedestrian movement increasingly becomes elevated, sunken, or internalized within the city’s built volume. The street ceases to be the primary conduit for pedestrians, or for social interaction, recreation, transaction, or as a venue for community expression. The ground is no longer the datum by which the community identifies and navigates it’s city. Vertical movement takes on ever greater importance, and as this tends to occur at the building core the relationship between the building and the street changes. The new public realm generated through these changes differs from the traditional, in form, capacity and program. It is often separated from the natural environment and divorced from the community.
Matthew Pryor discusses his research into the changing nature of the public realm and pedestrian movement in high rise, high density Hong Kong, the challenges it poses for the landscape architect, and the role of the discipline.
About the Speaker:
Matthew Pryor is Head of the Division of Landscape Architecture and an Assistant Professor within HKU’s Faculty of Architecture. He teaches Design Studio as well as technical courses in professional practice, planting, ecology and sustainable development practices. Mathew is a Fellow and Past President of the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects. He is also a Registered Landscape Architect in Hong Kong, and a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute in the UK.
His current research includes studies on urban greenness, biodiversity in the city, the landscape treatment of slopes, productive green roofs, public open space and walkability in the city.
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