From 27.07.2022 until 03.08.2022 students at the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Transformation will present their projects of the summer semester 2022. Everyone who is interested is invited to attend the events. Guests are welcome - with the urgent request to wear a mask.

Wednesday, 27.07.22

LAT – presentation Bachelorthesis

„Eingang zur Zukunft – Neues Entrée des Campus Weihenstephan“

time: 09:00 - 10:00 Uhr room: room E42, Emil-Ramann-Straße 6, 85354 Freising

LAT – presentation Masterthesis

“Siedlungsgebiete der Fünfziger Jahre und ihre Freiraumstrukturen – Ein Balanceakt zwischen Erhalt und Erneuerung - am Beispiel Münchens“

time: 10:00 - 11:00 Uhr room: room E42, Emil-Ramann-Straße 6, 85354 Freising

Thursday, 28.07.22

LAT – Master project:

„River Trialogues – Transformation des trinationalen Areals in Basel, Schweiz“

Guest critic: Dr. sc. ETH Haris Piplas, Co-Director Integrated Urban Solutions, Drees&Sommer

time: 13:30 - 17:00 Uhr room: room E42, Emil-Ramann-Straße 6, 85354 Freising

Monday, 01.08.22 und Tuesday, 02.08.22

LAT – Bachelor project 4th semester – landscape architecture and sustainable urbanism

„context matters“

cooperation: Chair of Sustainable Urbanism, Professor Mark Michaeli

time: 09:30 - 17:30 Uhr room: room E42, Emil-Ramann-Straße 6, 85354 Freising

Wednesday, 03.08.22

LAT – Profiles of International Landscape Architecture

Subtitel: Women in landscape architecture

time: 13:30 - 15:30 Uhr room: room U1, Emil-Ramann-Straße 6, 85354 Freising

FREIGANG - A design concept for the southwestern city entrance of Landshut and the JVA

In her master's thesis, Katharina Gorochow dealt with the Grieserwiese, located on the Isar River, and the nearby correctional facility in Landshut. The aim of her work is the urban integration of the closed and negatively connoted area of the JVA, the connection to the Isar, as well as the creation of a new gateway to the city center at the southwestern entrance.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Udo Weilacher, Martin Augenstein M.A.
The presentation will take place on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 at 10 a.m. in the E42 and can also be followed via Zoom.
If you are interested, please contact Martin Augenstein martin.augenstein@tum.de

Since the construction of the forestry centre in the 1990s, its grounds have been used as a temporary car park. The Centre Wald-Forst-Holz and our chair now called for proposals for the design of this western entrance to Campus Weihenstephan. A small group of students took on the task and provided a wide range of concepts and ideas.

Lisa Maria Hirschberger impressed the jury with her design "BRÜCKEN.SCHLAGEN" and received the 1st prize worth 1,000 €. Her work convinced with an intelligent answer to the competition goals: it provides space for movement, action and recreation creating a "green" place with a bridge as striking highlight.

Congrats to all prize-winners for their great entries and thanks to the jury and the Centre Wald-Forst-Holz for their collaboration and financial support!

All design proposals are currently exhibited in our studio E42 – come and visit!

On Tuesday, 8th February, Students of the 5th and 7th semester in Bachelor 'Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning' presented their projects about the whole Campus area of Weihenstephan. Goal of their work was to develop a masterplan defining guidelines to secure, strengthen and expand valuable open space structures on Campus.

All projects are exhibited at our chair (Room E42). We warmly invite you all to attend our exhibition and to discover diverse visions for our "green" campus.

Congratulations to all our students!

From February 8 to 11, the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Transformation will present the projects of the winter semester 2021/2022 and cordially invites all interested parties to participate via ZOOM.

Tuesday, 08.02.2022
“Safari traversale – Eine Semesterreise zur Zukunft des Weihenstephaner Campus“
Project Landscape Architecture 5./7. Semester Bachelor
guest critics: Professor Dr. Monika Egerer, TUM Professur for Urbane Produktive Ökosysteme
Dipl.-Ing. Jonas Bellingrodt, Stadtplanungsamt Freising
8:30 – 12:00 AM  and  1:30 - 5:00 PM
for Zoom-login-data please contact Lynn Hennies: Lynn.hennies[at]tum.de

Thursday, 10.02.2022
„Movimento indefinito“
Masterproject Landscape Architecture
guest critics: Lorenzo Migliorati (University of Bergamo), Gianluca Lanfranchi (University of Bologna), Roberto Carollo (Comune di Verona)
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
for Zoom-login-data please contact Antonia Koukouvelou: antonia.koukouvelou[at]tum.de

Friday, 11.02.2022
“Farbwechsel – Die Parkmeile Neuperlach-Neubiberg“
Projekt Landscape Architecture 1; 1st Semester Bachelor
guest critic: Susanne Brittinger, Landeshauptstadt München
9:00 – 12:40 AM  and 2:00 - 6:00 PM
for Zoom-login-data please contact Martin Augenstein: martinaugenstein[at]tum.de

Landscape metropolis. Design of a landscape-based polycentrix city model.

In seiner Dissertation an der TUM nimmt sich Andreas Nütten der Entwicklung eines neuen Stadtmodells an, das den Charakteristika von polyzentrisch strukturierten, wenig dicht besiedelten Metropopregionen zukünftig besser gerecht werden soll als die existierenden, traditionell geprägten Stadtmodelle. Nütten hat seine Forschungsfragen im Rahmen des Internationalen Doktorandenkollegs "Forschungslabor Raum" mit dem Rahmenthema „Entwicklung europäischer Metropolregionen“ (2007-2011) entwickelt und schlägt mit seiner interdisziplinär angelegten Arbeit eine Brücke zwischen den Disziplinen Architektur- Landschaftsarchitektur- Stadt- und Regionalplanung.

Betreuer der Dissertation: Prof. Dr. Michael Koch (HCU Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Udo Weilacher (TUM)

The defence of the dissertation will take place on Februar 14, 2022 at 2 pm (hybrid): live in Freising-Weihenstephan (2G rules apply) und online via Zoom. Please contact the LAT secretary for additional information.

A "compact version" of our exhibition can be visited from 25.01.2022 till 25.03.2022 in Weihenstephan (Emil-Ramann-Str. 6). For a thorough explanation of the exhibits, the Information-Video is now available.

We are looking forward to welcoming you at the University and receive your comments.

"Bridging the Gap. The walk as an intercultural participatory practice for landscape design" is the title of Melissa Apolaya's master thesis.

The student spent several months in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Cusco, Peru, where an experimental analysis strategy, the "experimental walk" was tested with the Andean community of Patacancha in the district of Ollantaytambo. The aim of her work was to find out, how a better communication between foreign landscape architects and the local inhabitants can be developed for better planning results. This daring experiment did not take a foreseeable course ...

Coaches: Prof. Dr. Udo Weilacher, Dipl.-Ing. Nicole Meier
Presentation of the thesis on Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 at 4 pm (online via Zoom) 

Jeweils im Sommersemester schreiben Master-Studierende am LAT kritische Buchbesprechungen im Rahmen der "wissenschaftlichen Schreibwerkstatt". Neuerdings werden die kurzen Rezensionen auch online im Blog der Fachzeitschrift Garten + Landschaft im Netz publiziert. Allen studentischen Autor*innen Glückwunsch zu diesem Erfolg!

The exhibition LOST & Found was officially opened on the 1st of December, 2021 at the Immatrikulationshalle in TU Munich (Archisstrasse 21) and ended on January 18, 2022. Thank you very much to all visitors of the show! NOW (January 25th 2022) you can visit the "compact" version of the exhibition in Weihenstephan, hosted by LAT.

A lot of people appreciate the Alps as an attractive natural and leisure landscape, but only a few are aware that the Alps are intensively used for industrial purposes, especially through heavy industry. Due to global structural change in industrial production over the last years, hundreds of steel, chemical and concrete industries have been falling into disuse and created complex challenges to neighbouring communities. Is it possible to integrate again the industrial brownfields into the alpine (cultural) landscape in a meaningful way?

In the exhibition hall, the visitors saw the results of the three-year international research project trAILs, which was funded by the Interreg Alpine Space Program of the EU, on the planning approach to disused industrial sites in the Alpine region. Also on display were numerous planning and design projects by students who, in recent years, have been studying at the TUM Chair of Landscape Architecture and Transformation on the sustainable conversion of inner-alpine industrial areas. Formerly thought as lost industrial wastelands, now they find their new purpose and become part of an alpine cultural landscape.

Here you'll find the recording of the opening event from December 1st, 2021: video
The exhibition teaser is presented here: teaser video

Within the Bachelor project "Safari traversale" students invited inhabitants, employees and other students, who live around the project area, on the Campus of Weihenstephan to have a casual talk around the campfire. The goal of the meeting was to discuss about the wishes and concerns of all different user groups of the campus. A small group of interested people came to the meeting, defying the low temperatures and explained to the students their perspective about the site which now must be considered in the further development of the campus.

We congratulate all our Bachelor and Master graduates who successfully presented their theses in 2019-2020-2021. We wish you all the best for your future!

On Thursday, 21.10.21 at 10:30 a.m. Gero Engeser will present his thesis on the topic: "Transformation of the former textile factory Lauffenmühle in Lörrach-Brombach using principals of the circular economy". He intends to transform the factory site into a mixed-use urban quarter and improve the quality of the floodplain of the river Wiese. For this purpose, existing landscape structures will be transformed into public open spaces. During the transformation, the concept of the circular economy will be integrated in order to likewise improve the area economically and socially in the long run.

We invite you to attend the presentation either in room U1 or via Zoom. For Zoom details, please write an email to Lynn Hennies.

In her master's thesis "From Munich to Savannah," Vera Donata Wesinger studied the travel descriptions of the Bavarian court gardener Wilhelm Christian Bischoff (1797-1881). Part of her work included transcribing and analyzing the unpublished original manuscripts. She compared her findings with the theses of the American landscape gardener Andrew Jackson Downing (1815 - 1852) to show differences in the European and American perception of the American landscape. In addition, the travel reports provide interesting insightes on the wide-ranging horizon of Bischoff.
The work was done in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Iris Lauterbach of the Central Institute of Art History in Munich.

We look forward to her online presentation on Monday, September 13, 2021 at 11 AM and invite interested parties to attend!
If you are interested, please contact Martin Augenstein (augenstein[at]lai.ar.tum.de).

In her master's thesis, Alexandra Grama is dealing with the artificial open spaces of shopping outlets. She wanted to find out whether the open space of a factory outlet center contributes to stress reduction and psychological well-being, or is merely part of a green marketing strategy.

We cordially invite to her online presentation on Wednesday July 28, 2021 at 11 am.
If interested, please contact Martin Augenstein (augenstein[at]lai.ar.tum.de).

On July 9th 2021, Marcello Modica defended his doctor's thesis entitled “ALPINE INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES. Towards a new approach for brownfield redevelopment in mountain regions”. The research started in 2017 at the TUM Chair of Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscapes and focused on the emerging planning challenge of transforming and redeveloping industrial brownfield sites in the Alpine region. By assuming an holistic landscape approach, and strongly relying on fieldwork and research-by-design, the dissertation provides a first, grounded interpretation of this complex spatial phenomena, as well as an operative methodology to address it.

Supervisor 1: Prof. Dr. Udo Weilacher (TU Munich)
Supervisor 2: Prof. Dr. Siedentop (TU Dortmund)
Chair of examination board: Prof. Dr. Schoebel-Rutschmann (TU Munich)

Congratulations Marcello and all the best for the future!

The interdisciplinary master studio ‘Waiting lands lab’ came to an end on Tuesday 13^th of July. Four Labs presented their work and proposed strategies to activate the ‘waiting lands’ of the newly founded campus of Nuremberg. All labs focused on social, economic, ecological and climate aspects and tried to find ways to create a smooth and sustainable transition from a ‘no-use’ land to a fully functioning and lively space.

All four projects are exhibited in our chair for a short time (room E42). We warmly invite you to have a look and study this different way of dealing with a constantly changing site. E-community strategies, productive lands, sense of belonging, interaction, sustainability and production were some of the themes that students tackled on.

Congratulations to all students for their work!

This new book is the result of stimulating and successful team cooperation within the 3-year research project trAILs and the authors want to encourage regional and local actors and stakeholders to get started and take the conversion of brownfield sites into their own hands. The publication allows an excellent insight into the multidisciplinary working process, arranged between international partners in research and planning.

The printed version of this publication will be available soon.

The master's thesis "BREAKING THE ISLAND. Application of Structuralism using the example of the former oil harbour in Karlskrona, Sweden" by Xiaozhen Li (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Udo Weilacher) was not only graded 1.0, but also recently awarded the Young Talent Award 2020 of the Federation of German Landscape Architects Bavaria (bdla Bayern).

The jury's verdict reads: "Xiaozhen Li succeeds in an exemplary manner in critically addressing current problems, such as rising sea levels in times of climate change, and their effects on port cities such as Karlskrona. In her detailed, scientifically consolidated report, the student also deals with problems such as the structural change of industrial cities. ...] With her outstanding Master's thesis, Xiaozhen Li proves her ability to carry out professional design work within the framework of complex problems in landscape architecture - not only nationally, but also internationally.

Congratulations on this great success!

The preparations for the final exhibition of the trAILs research project next year in the Immatrikulationshalle at TUM City Campus have started. The LAI team spent two busy days in the model workshop, finishing the first mountain modules for the “Alpine invasion”.

After 150 days in office, the President of TUM, Professor Dr. Thomas Hofmann answered to questions by Professor Dr. Udo Weilacher, who interviewed him for the new edition "nodium" at the Chair for Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscape.
The President reacted very openly on questions about the future importance of landscape architecture and planning at TUM and described the balance he sees as trend-setting between specialization and cross-sectional orientation in research and teaching. The conception of the new TUM Schools was discussed as well as the necessary paradigm shift in science in view of the experience that the one-sided technological access to the complex-dynamic system Earth turns out to be extremely problematic. President Hofmann, who was a guest in the Weihenstephan "Landscape Building" for the first time, was particularly impressed by the cross-sectional design methodology and the complex results of the project study in the course of a tour through the exhibited semester works by Landscape architecture students: "Project studies will be a key element in the reform of teaching."
The full interview will be available in the new issue of "nodium", the magazine of the Alumni Club Landschape of the TU Munich, which will be published at the end of April 2020. Further information can be found on the homepage of the Alumni Club Landschaft at the TU Munich: www.acl.wzw.tum.de

With an application of phenomenal transparency
Charleroi’s territory in Belgium is widely known for its industrial mining history and the outdated image of Le Pays Noir. Different waves of transformation resulted into the surreal landscape in which industrial land, urban tissue and green-blue elements are constantly mixed. The thesis refers to the theory “phenomenal transparency” as a supplement for analysis and design for landscape architecture design to evoke new spatial territories that improve our sensory experiences and respond to the temporal quality of the landscape.

20th February 2019 9:30 am Room E42, Emil-Ramann Str. 6, 85354 Freising
Presentation is open to join!

On February 11^th-12^th-13^th, the trAILs project team met in L’Argentière-la-Bessée (Hautes-Alpes) for the third test-design workshop on the former Pechiney site. The workshop aims to identify, together with local and regional stakeholders and observers, a set of agreed key planning elements for the future development of the site. The first day was dedicated to review and discuss the thematic assessments produced by the scientific partners and to prepare the interdisciplinary working groups. On the second day, around 20 stakeholders and observers joined the project team to share their insights on the future transformation of the site, and thus to address relevant and concrete planning issues. The last day was dedicated as usual to an internal methodological feedback round and to wrap-up the workshop results in preparation of the next steps.

At the end of January, beginning of February the results of the design studios from the winter semester 2019/2020 will be presented. The Chair of Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscape invites all that are interested to participate in the events.

THURSDAY, 30.01.2020
Master Project Landscape Architecture
„Projecting Münichtal 2020+ Post industrial transformation of a former blast furnace site in Eisenerz, Austria“
1:00 – 06:00 pm, room E42, Emil-Ramann Str. 6, 85354 Freising
Guest: Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard, ETH Zürich, Harvard Graduate School, Cambridge, USA

FRIDAY, 31.01.2020
Bachelor Project 4th year Landscape Architecture
„Eisenerz lässt tief blicken Entwicklungskonzepte am Rande des Tagesbaus in Eisenerz - AT“
09:00 am–04:00 pm, room E42, Emil-Ramann Str. 6, 85354 Freising
Guest: Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard, ETH Zürich, Harvard Graduate School, Cambridge, USA

FRIDAY, 07.02.2020
Bachelor Project 1st year Landscape Architecture
„Parkmeile Olympiapark - Angerlohe Entwürfe für die Entwicklung eines Grünzugs im Nordwesten Münchens“
in Cooperation with Prof. Stephan Pauleit, Lehrstuhl für Strategie und Management der Landschaftsentwicklung
9:30 am–04:45 pm, room U3, Emil-Ramann Str. 6, 85354 Freising
Guest: Robert Schätzle, Landeshauptstadt München, Referat für Stadtplanung und Bauordnung
HA II/54 Grünplanung für Bezirk West

The Right to Ecological Space in the City
Operationalising Green Infrastructure as Strategic Urban Planning Concept for a Just Access With Lessons Learnt from Vienna and Munich

On december 16th the doctoral thesis of Dr. Sonia Gantioler was published by tum university press and is now available as print via Hugendubel or Lehmanns
Increasing socio-economic inequalities, biodiversity loss and urban transformations potentially aggravate spatial disparities within cities and favour unequal access to nature, with adverse effects on the quality of life of their inhabitants. The thesis develops a conceptual and action model for the strategic planning of 'Green Infrastructure' (GI), which aims at a just access to ecological space in the city. The model forms the basis of an analysis carried out in Vienna and Munich, and indicates potential interventions at two levels: First taking into due consideration GI integration before development takes place and a renewed discussion on basic needs and urban green area qualities with regard to GI?s physical shaping. Second the importance of developing adequate governance capabilities, particularly in relation to property entitlements and political, economic and articulation powers.

ISBN:9783958840256

Professor emeritus Peter Latz has decisively influenced the contemporary landscape architecture by the transformation and cultural valorisation of post-industrial landscapes. But he is firmly convinced that not everything has to be reinvented, but reinterpreted and the historical repertoire and knowledge of garden history are decisive for this, for otherwise "you only risk reinventing the wheel, and in the end you even believe you've created something new.”

Peter Latz sees many connections between modern times and the Renaissance: A time of social upheaval and technological progress, which also affects garden architecture. In his lecture on 20 December, Peter Latz will deal with these influences and connections.

20th December 2019, 15:00 am Room U3, Emil-Ramann Str. 6, 85354 Freising
Lecture is open to join!

Application of Structuralism to the example of the former oil harbour in Karlskrona
The naval city of Karlskrona, located in Sweden’s southernmost archipelago, plays a vital role throughout Swedish history. Based on the Structuralism approach, Li Xiaozhen abstracted three significant layers: land morphology, the ocean, and the city center. The additional industrial layer breaks this original structural relationships and leading to its unintelligibility. The Master Thesis investigates with landscape architecture design, how the relationships could be reestablished  to regain the identity for both the site and the city.

16th December 2019 11:00 am Room E42, Emil-Ramann Str. 6, 85354 Freising
Presentation is open to join!

On 21-22 November the trAILs team met in the Haute Durance valley, in the French Alps, to visit the two brownfield sites of L’Argentière-la-Bessée and La-Roche-de-Rame. On the first day, the morning was dedicated to the field exploration of the two disused sites, enriched by the knowledge and guidance of local representatives and experts. In the afternoon, an intensive roundtable discussion focused on the challenges connected to the sites revitalization took place in the Cultural Foyer of the Town Hall of L’Argentière, joined by the project team and local/regional representatives, among which the Mayors of L’Argentière and La-Roche and the President of the Community of municipalities Pays des Ecrins, as well as by the Region SUD (a project observer). The next meeting in the French pilot region will be the planning workshop with stakeholders and experts, taking place again in L’Argentière on 11-12-13 February 2020. Preparation has already started!

For the eightieth birthday of Peter Latz, Emeritus of Excellence TUM, the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscape of Prof. Dr. Udo Weilacher invited to a celebration in the glass house on 14^th of November. Together with long-time friends, colleagues and students, Prof. em. Peter Latz was honored for his work at the Technical University of Munich. The celebration began with a glass house discussion entitled "Renaissance Reloaded", in which the Emeritus and the students discussed his nine central questions on the Renaissance, its influence on his work and its transferability to future challenges.

The LAI supported this year's 5th Regional Housing Conference of the Munich Region on Nov 12th. Jonas Bellingrodt was invited as an expert at the roundtable discussion “think open spaces properly" to give relevant impulses based on best practice examples. For the first time, the subject of open space development, in addition to the topics "Investing in Mobility" and " Commitment in housing construction" with all relevant institutions from politics, administration and economy, was explored and the importance underlined. The demand that open space and landscape development as an identity generator and as requirement for a high standard of living, especially in times of climate change, should go first for other planning options has been adressed.

On September 25-26-27, the trAILs project team met in Valdieri, at the headquarters of the Regional Park “Alpi Marittime”, for the second test-design workshop on the former Italcementi site of Borgo San Dalmazzo. The workshop aims to develop, together with local and regional stakeholders and observers, a strategic vision for the future of the site as well as for the surrounding region. The first day was dedicated to review the thematic assessments produced by the project scientific partners and to present the video-interviews done by University of Verona and the students projects from TUM and Politecnico di Milano. On the second day, 26 stakeholders and observers from the region joined the project team to share their insights on the future transformation of the site and thus to address relevant and concrete planning issues. The last day was dedicated to an internal methodological evaluation and to the identification of the main outputs to be then transferred to the stakeholders.

Udo Weilacher will present a key lecture at the International Landscape Architects Symposium — Resilient landscapes,  sponsored by Beijing Forestry University (BFU), Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture (CHSLA), will be held in BFU from 12th to 13th October 2019. The symposium this year will focus on the frontier academic, with the theme of "resilient landscape", covering three main topics: “Human settlement environment system based on water conservancy system; structure, transition and restoration of coastal ecosystem; and transformation of coastal bay areas and delta areas”. Leading experts and scholars in the landscape architecture field worldwide. 

10 years ago, Professor Dr. Udo Weilacher was appointed to the Technical University of Munich and with the support of his team established the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscape (LAI), based on the pioneering work of Professor Peter Latz. This anniversary and the publication of the new book "insites 2014-2019" was celebrated together with students and colleagues in the garden of the Institute of Landscape Architecture in Freising-Weihenstephan on July 24th 2019! For the excellent cooperation in recent years, the LAI team would like to thank all partners in research and teaching!

On 27-28 June the trAILs team met in Borgo San Dalmazzo for the site visit on the Italian pilot. On the first day, the project team guided by Gianpaolo Beretta, the Mayor of Borgo San Dalmazzo, and Daniela Risso, a local expert and planner, explored by foot the Italcementi site surroundings and by bus the Gesso valley. After a refreshing lunch on the panoramic top of the Monserrato hill, overlooking the Italcementi site, the team moved to the city hall of Borgo San Dalmazzo for an intensive and fruitful roundtable session with key local stakeholders, such as the Mayor of Valdieri and the head of urban planning of Borgo San Dalmazzo, besides the two representatives already met in the morning tour. The roundtable helped the project partners to deepen their knowledge of the context and to get aware of the most important challenges related to the future of the cement plant site. The second and last day was dedicated to an internal project meeting, in which the next steps on the Italian pilot site foreseen within WP 2 and 3 have been planned and reviewed. The second meeting in Borgo San Dalmazzo will be the test-design workshop, taking place on 25-26-27 September 2019.

Reorganization of the post-industrial Grand Port in Bègles, Bordeaux Metropolis

13th of June 2019 11:00 am Room E42, Emil-Ramann Str. 6, 85354 Freising

“From Backyard to Frontyard” introducing the strategy of Urban Agriculture as the infrastructure to thecity transformation, with the concept of Agricultural Park for reorganization of post-industrial site inGrand Port, Begles. Project is dealing with the problem of urban flooding and storm, at the meanwhileconsidering the potential risk about food insecurity of the city in the future. Urban agriculture systempossess ecological function, social attraction and economic contribution, which could provide newlandscape and lifestyle in the city."

Presentation is open to join!

The main focus "Crossing Borders" led the international doctoral college spatial research lab in the German French Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau. The research trip, which was organized by Markus Neppl KIT Karlsruhe, focused on the cross-border spatial and urban planning of this region. The college was a guest at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Strasbourg (ENSAS). They met representatives of the French urban development agency ADEUS, as well as of the city planning department of Strasbourg. The perspective was completed by the german architect Matthias Stippich, who as a long term engagement with the development of the region Ortenau. Under the title Fablabing the Cherrycake - he reported on the planing culture of the region in the digital age.

On May 15-18, a team of Master students from the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscapes visited the town of L'Argentière-la-Bessée (Briançon, Hautes-Alpes), home of the former Pechiney aluminium works, the French pilot site of the EU project trAILs. An intensive on-site analysis allowed the students to draft some first transformation concepts for the area. These have been presented, shared and discussed with local project partners (Thomas Kleitz and Claire Baradez from CAUE 84) and regional stakeholders (CAUE 05, Communauté de communes Pays des Ecrins, municipalities of L'Argentière and La-Roche-de-Rame). The team also get the chance to visit another key brownfield site of the region, the disused MG Industries calcium factory in La-Roche-de-Rame. The final design projects for the Pechiney site will be integrated in the trAILs French test-design workshop, foreseen for February 2020 again in L’Argentière.

Guest lecture on Tuesday, 28th May 2019, 11:30 am, Lecture Hall 1080 (August Föppl Lecture Hall) in Munich

Daniel Roehr Daniel is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver. He teaches at the School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture and specializes in integrating residential rooftops as part of a holistic rainwater management system with the Greenskins Lab research group at UBC. Daniel Roehr is co-author of the book "Living Roofs in Integrated Urban Water Systems" (Routledge 2015). In over 20 years he has practiced in Europe, North America and Asia. From 1995 to 2000 he was project architect of the award-winning green roof project of Daimler-Chrysler at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Before moving to Vancouver, he ran his own company in Berlin from 1999 to 2007 and founded a company in Shanghai in 2004.

http://www.greenskinslab.sala.ubc.ca

Dortmund, on the edge of the Ruhr metropolis with 5 million inhabitants, was the venue of the 5th Doctoral Week (25.-29.03.2019) of the Doktorandenkolleg Forschungslabor Raum. Host Prof. Dr Stefan Siedentop of the ILS Research Institute for Regional- and Urban Development presented current urban development projects in the Ruhr region. In addition to the intensive examination of the research work of the doctoral students, the renaturation of the Emscher, and the development of the Phoenix area were part of the program.

On January 24th-25th the whole trAILs team met in Leoben-Eisenerz for the first site visit to the Austrian pilot site.

On the first day, we reached Eisenerz and explored the former blast furnace site Münichtal with the support of local stakeholders (site owners and Mayor of Eisenerz). Many useful informations and insights about the site conditions and the development challenges in the region were gained. Some project partners already performed some on-site activities, such as UniVerona, whose team recorded and filmed interviews with local stakeholders and representatives of the community.

On the second day we had an indoor meeting at the Kunsthalle Leoben. In the first session, scientific partners presented their approaches and methods for the site assessment (WP T2), while in the second session we had a small workshop in which we explored together the connections between the proposed methods and assessed, with the help of regional partners, their relevance and feasibility. The first communication materials such as posters and flyers were also presented and distributed to everybody for own promotional activities.

Casablanca a metropolitan area with 6 million inhabitants was the destination of the research trip of the Doktoral College Spatial research lab. Led by Undine Giseke TU Berlin, the doctoral students have maped the cycles of foodproduction and consumption in the urban rural nexus of the North African economic engine. Under the City without Slums program, informal settlements are being replaced by new housing developments. As a result, the city is rapidly spreads in into the highly productive agricultural belt of the surrounding area. How the integration of an urban agriculture can be successful was an integral topic of the trip.

Landscape architect Jonathan Stimpfle was honored with the international jury award of the Urban Promogiovani X Competition 2018 for his master's thesis "ringlocpark", a design for the reuse of the Augsburg Railway depot, supervised at the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscape of the Technical University of Munich. Congratulations!

On the homepage of the Italian promoter urbanpromo, carried by the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica und Urbanistica Italiana, they announce:"X URBAN-PROMOGIOVANI AWARD is a cultural event aimed to nurture the  learning experience of talented students from any Higher Education Institution  worldwide -in the fields of Architecture, Engineering, Planning, Design, Realestate-, who are developing learning outcomes within the subject area of urban regeneration and urban transformation.“

Further information you finde here:
https://urbanpromo.it/2018-en/urban-promogiovani/the-winners-of-the-9th-edition/
https://urbanpromo.it/2018-en/urbanpromogiovani/ringlocpark/

Marc Treib is one of the internationally most renowned specialist authors on landscape architecture and modern architecture and has written numerous monographs, e.g. about Isamu Noguchi, Thomas D. Church, Garrett Eckbo, Dan Kiley, and other reknown Modern Architects. Marc Treib is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley / USA. He has received numerous awards for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy in Rome Fellowship, ASLA Honor Awards and the Best Exhibition Publication Award of the Society of Architectural Historians. He teaches in many design studios, lectures on Japanese architecture and garden art as well as "Landscape Architecture, Criticism, Art and Modern Scandinavian Architecture".

"The Limits of Modern Landscape Design in the Anthropocene"

Marc Treib visited our chair on November 8th and invited our students for a "glasshouse chat" with him!

"Landscape - Plans for the Future" presents plans of the best study projects since the beginning of the landscape architecture and -planing program, which was founded in 1956 at the Technical University of Munich as a study program "Gardening and Landscaping". The choice of plans since that time all have one common goal: to communicate and present a vision of a better world for the future. The opening of the exhibition was the 150th anniversary of the TU Munich on 13th of october 2018. The exhibition is open to all  until Tuesday, 20th of November 2018, in the foyer of the institute building of the Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planing (4219), Emil-Ramann-Str.6, Freising.

Will sculpture parks such as the renowned "Yorkshire Sculpture Park" in Great Britain play a role in the valorization of rural areas in the future? Such and similar questions will be the focus of the international conference at the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (Poland) from 18 to 21 October 2018. For many years, the LAI faculty has maintained good contacts with the Sculpture Center and has already worked out restructuring plans in the master program landscape architecture for the sculpture park.

Udo Weilacher is invited as keynote speaker and will shed light on the development of the relationship between sculpture and park in his lecture.

Have a look in the program!

On the 03rd of July 2018 Sonia Gantioler will defend her dissertation to the topic "THE RIGHT TO ECOLOGICAL SPACE / IN THE CITY. Operationalising Green Infrastructure as strategic urban planning concept for a just access. With lessons learnt from Vienna and Munich."

Referents:     
Prof. Dr. Udo Weilacher, Technische Universität München
Prof. Dr. Andreas Voigt, Technische Universität Wien

Examination presidency:
Prof. Dr. Alain Thierstein

Congratulations, Sonia Gantioler!

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an unsere Master-Studentin Bernadette Brandl, die den DGGL-Förderpreis ULRICH WOLF 2018/19 mit ihrem Projekt "The pop-up boxes" gewinnen konnte.
Mehr Infos zum Wettbewerb gibt es hier.

On the 24-25.05.2018 the kick-off meeting of the international EU-funded research project "trAILs - Alpine Industrial Landscapes Transformation" took place at the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscape (LAI). Many enthusiast colleagues from France, Italy, Slovenia, Austria and Germany attended the strategy meeting and, together with representatives of the Joint Secretariat of INTERREG Alpine Space, defined the the first steps for the 3-year project.