Chair of Landscape Architecture and Public Space – Prof. Regine Keller

Our focus on public space currently has, in addition to the important political role, the opportunity to embody forms of sociality and communion. In dealing with the consequences of the climate crisis, public space also offers essential fields of experimentation to work out how we can survive in cities in the future. This requires multidisciplinary approaches that rescale the relationship: human space environment (read more)

 

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EARTH – Towards Regenerative Design at the Architekturgalerie München

Prof. Regine Keller is part of the event EARTH – Towards Regenerative Design on 25 April at the Architekturgalerie in Munich, Blumenstraße 22. In lectures, film and discussion, actors from various fields show how they actively support the regeneration of the earth with concrete projects.

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Regine Keller in an interview with SPIEGEL

"How do we make our cities more homely again, Ms Keller?" asked SPIEGEL. In the interview, Prof. Regine Keller talks about office vacancies in our cities as well as potentials for landscape architectural upgrading and urban redensification.

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Discussion „Landschaft unter Druck"

On 18 April 2023, Prof. Regine Keller will take part in the panel discussion "Landschaft unter Druck - Siedlungsbau und Flächenverbrauch" at the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste. Other participants are Holger Magel, Florian Nagler, Beate Rutkowski, Sören Schöbel and Max von Bredlow, the…

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LAO staff member Felix Lüdicke presents at Doctoral Candidates' Day 2023

Chair member Felix Lüdicke gave a short talk on his dissertation project "Artistic intervention as a participatory design process - media dissertation on the temporary square design "Piazza Zenetti"" at the Doctoral Candidates' Day 2023.

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Street Dating – Workshop at the Pavillon 333

The first event on street space experiments showed us how much potential there is in the Munich initiatives and what a benefit the networking of the various actors brings. In a second step, we would like to hear from the initiatives about their experiences from past projects and their plans for the…

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„OLYMPISCHE LANDSCHAFT – GÜNTHER GRZIMEK“ in Karlsruhe

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the publication of Prof. Regine Keller's monograph on Günther Grzimek, the Architekturgallerie München is showing a section of the work of this important landscape architect with photographs by The Pk Odessa Co. from…

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Kick-Off: Street-Space-Experiments

Sommerstraßen, Parklets, Pop-up Parks. Temporary actions and installations have also been increasingly observed on Munich streets in recent years. Are such street space experiments an opportunity for systemic change in urban mobility and strategic planning of climate-friendly recreational…

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Unsere Straße – Unsere Stadt

From 05 - 22 December 2022, the exhibition Unsere Straße – Unsere Stadt took place in Pavilion 333. In the exhibition, architecture students Alicia Hergerdt, Luisa Amann question the built reality of urban space.

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OLYMPISCHE LANDSCHAFT – GÜNTHER GRZIMEK Exhibition Opening and Book Presentation

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the publication of Prof. Regine Keller's monograph on Günther Grzimek, the Architekturgallerie München is showing a section of the work of this important landscape architect with photographs by The Pk Odessa Co. from…

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Hacken:Platz

As part of the "studio1zu1" course, TUM landscape architecture students will be working on temporary installations as built street experiments in the summer semester of 2022. As their own street experiment, the installation "Hacken:Platz" in Munich's Hackenstraße will be designed, planned and built…

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Viehhofviertelstraßen

The open-air exhibition "Viehhofviertelstraßen" shows visionary designs for the street spaces of the planned new Viehhofviertel in the windows of the LUISE cultural center. The works were created in the winter semester 2020/21 in the Master course Landscape Architecture. The exhibition is aimed at…

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Viehhofviertelpark

The exhibition "Viehhofviertelpark" shows a total of 14 designs for the planned park in the new Viehhofviertel at publicly accessible locations. The works were created in the summer of 2020 as final projects in the bachelor's degree program in landscape architecture and planning. The exhibition is…

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Aktion, Intervention, Partizipation

Bei Bauvorhaben im öffentlichen Raum kommt es — trotz intensiver Bürgerbeteiligung — oft genau dann zu Reaktionen und Protesten, wenn mit dem Bau begonnen wird. Neuen Raumaufteilungen, Nutzungsvorschlägen und Gestaltungslösungen scheint eine grundsätzliche Skepsis entgegenzuschlagen. Etablierte…

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Canaletto

The exhibition "Canaletto - Open Spaces Along the Nymphenburg-Biedersteiner Canal" shows the designs of the semester project of the same name in the Master of Landscape Architecture in the winter semester 2018/19. The Master students recorded open space characters of the Nymphenburg-Biedersteiner…

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Urbeen

The exhibition "URBEEN" deals with the open spaces in the surroundings of the Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry at the Ludwigstraße. Over three semesters, the urban open space between Ludwigstraße, Hofgarten and English Garden was designed by the Chair of Landscape…

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100Places:M

The interdisciplinary research project 100Places:M investigates both the effects of climate change and heat island effects, and the design, use and occupancy of public places by different actors in Munich. The consequences of global warming and the temperature differences between city and landscape…

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100Places:M – Designing Urban Natures-Cultures

The future of city squares in the context of climate change is the focus of the conference "Designing Urban Natures-Cultures", which will take place on Thursday, 11 and Friday, 12 October at the Technical University in Munich. 21 researchers from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Spain will…

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out there – Landscapes of Global Urbanization

It has been a long time since highly respected garden artists created exclusive parks for a privileged minority. Nowadays, landscape architects, as the descendants of the royal court gardeners, use their powers for green spaces and open spaces that are accessible and usable for all—including…

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Landschaft für die Stadt. Büro Hansjakob

Seit den 1960er Jahren setzten die Landschaftsarchitekten Gottfried und Anton Hansjakob Maßstäbe in der Freiraum- und Stadtplanung. Das Gesamtwerk der Brüder umfasst 80 Wettbewerbe und über 1.000 ausgeführte Projekte in zahlreichen Städten Deutschlands und des benachbarten Auslands. lnternationales…

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Wunderwelt Bernried

The village of Bernried and the Buchheim Museum are tourist attractions of the Upper Bavarian region "Pfaffenwinkel". The "Buchheim Museum of Imagination" is located in one of the parks surrounding the town on Lake Starnberg. Bernried's natural location, cultural-historical buildings and extensive…

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out there – Landscape Architecture on Global Terrain

‘out there’ is the first exhibition at the Architekturmuseum der TU München to be devoted to landscape architecture. Having in recent years frequently showcased the social relevance of architecture to our contemporary world, the focus now shifts to a discipline that has a far greater reach in terms…

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Otto Valentien (1897-1987)

In 2016, Otto Valentien's estate was processed at the Chair of Landscape Architecture and Public Space - thanks to the former chair holder Prof. Christoph Valentien - and an archive with a finding aid was created. The freelance garden architect and painter wrote several books on the subject of home…

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A PLACE FOR EVERYONE

In the summer of 2014, as part of their bachelor’s thesis at TUM, landscape architecture students drew up proposals for a new design and use of the Max-Joseph-Platz in Munich. The exhibition “ONE PLACE FOR EVERYONE” presents plans and models of selected works in the National Theater’s Königssaal —…

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Cañada Real Galiana, Madrid – Landscape Architectural Approaches for an Informal Settlement

Since the Middle Ages, on the way of Cañada Real Galiana, Merino sheep have been driven from summer to winter pastures. In Spain, these routes have a total length of some 125,000 km. Once, a large part of the Spanish power was based on the wool trade. The Mesta, the union of sheep breeders,…

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Klimapark München

What is a climate park? So far, there is no binding definition of this term. What can a so-called climate park achieve? What content should be conveyed and what ecological and creative expression can be found for a place that wants to convey a phenomenon that concerns us all and that cannot only be…

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metropolis nonformal

What is a climate park? So far, there is no binding definition of this term. What can a so-called climate park achieve? What content should be conveyed and what ecological and creative expression can be found for a place that wants to convey a phenomenon that concerns us all and that cannot only be…

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Stadtlabor Nürnberger Weststadt

Die Nürnberger Weststadt war in den letzten Jahren gravierenden Veränderungen ausgesetzt. Schließungen und Insolvenzen langjährig ansässiger Unternehmen haben zu massiven Arbeitsplatzverlusten geführt und den Charakter des früher pulsierenden Gewerbestandorts und das Leben in der Nürnberger…

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Designing Nature as Infrastructure

Steht der Begriff Grüne Infrastruktur für ein neues Paradigma zur Gestaltung von gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnissen, oder beschreibt er nur ein modernes Synonym für den herkömmlichen Begriff Landschaft? Dieser Frage geht das Symposium Natur als Infrastruktur entwerfen nach und lädt Planer,…

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Urban Strategies for Onaville, Haiti

At the foot of the Mornes du Pensez-y-Bien, a barren mountain massif scarred by natural forces and devastation, a new city is being created. Following the earthquake in January 2010, a UN refugee camp was set up here. As a result of the expropriation of a territory of around fifty km2, the place…

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Klosterlandschaft St Michael

Vorbereitend auf die Landesgartenschau in Bamberg wurde im Jahr 2010 in Zusammenarbeit mit der Otto-Friedrich-Universität in Bamberg das Forschungsprojekt "Klosterlandschaft St. Michael“ über die Immunität des ehemaligen Klosters St. Michael bearbeitet. Dabei wurde zunächst eine Bestandsaufnahme…