Stowe revisited

um pequeno e breve gesto sentimental de um saudoso stoweiano! com fotos de uma mais recente stoweiana portuguesa

partilho aqui o site com as experiências Stoweianas, etc....

http://anainstowe.wordpress.com/

para os que estão fora do contexto deste gesto sigam aqui as etiquetas
http://nucleoap.blogspot.pt/search/label/stowe
http://nucleoap.blogspot.pt/search/label/England%20Adventure%202011

New Inn at Stowe (finally)

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/stowe/ 
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/home/view-page/item768116/277244/ 

http://nucleoap.blogspot.pt/search/label/stowe

inauguraçao
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.413635978662648.123630.138812702811645&type=1

o que ver:
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/servlet/file/store5/item761314/version1/Stowe%20Map%202012.pdf

U.PORTO na ECLAS CONFERENCE SHEFFIELD 2011

sobre o tema Ethics/Aesthetics decorreu entre o dia 7 e 10 de Setembro a conferência da ECLAS (European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools) em Sheffield, Reino Unido

http://www.eclas2011.org/index.html

Nesta Conferência estiveram presentes, representantes da Universidade do Porto...

diponibilizo aqui os temas e conteudos das apresentações

alguns representantes vindos do Porto estiveram em visita nos Stowe Landscape gardens

A comparative analysis between ethic and aesthetic in Medieval treatises and

descriptions on garden design

Ricardo Gomes

Abstract

In the pre-modern world, the Silk Road crossed territories of a wide

cultural diversity and was the most significant link between them. Prior

to the process of European settlement in China and Japan, the garden

cultures of the Western and Eastern civilizations remained practically

isolated from each other. The dichotomy between the morphological

and philosophical evolution in Oriental and Occidental garden design

has been one of the milestones in garden history and its study is crucial

to understand garden art in past and present times.

The aim of this work is to compare the ethic and aesthetic thoughts

expressed in five of the most important written documents on garden

art from Japanas Heian period to Medieval Europe, when cultural

exchanges West/East were still extremely difficult. Two of these pieces

are the descriptions of ambassador Clavijo and Marco Polo concerning

the gardens of the Timurid and Yuan Empire courts. The other three

are treatises, namely: Ruralium Commodorum Opus, Pietro de'

Crescenzias 13th century treatise on rural economy; Geoponica, the

10th century byzantine compendium and Sakuteiki, the Japanese 11th

century manual on garden making.

East, West, North, South- Cross Cultures

In this study Ethic is understood as the moral view of what was seen as

right or wrong in a garden, from a social, economical and ecological

point of view and Aesthetic as the judgment of what was regarded as

beautiful or unpleasant from a sensorial perspective.

The referred documents were analyzed, and the key statements in

ethics and aesthetics, for each one, were classified as either negative or

positive. Through a comparative analysis, the similarities and

differences between these statements were assessed.

The divergence in the expressed views is much more significant in

Aesthetic than in Ethic statements. Size, luxury, wealth and power are

often considered positive but there is a significant contrast about the

aesthetical components of garden design, such as straight lines or

symmetry, that were evaluated as extremely desirable or absolutely

unacceptable.

In the context of a comprehensive study on garden history, this

discussion can provide a step towards a better understanding of the

evolution of gardens in different cultures.

The visual aesthetics of urban biodiversity: A trial study in three small parks in

Porto, Portugal

Paulo Farinha Marques, José M. Lameiras, Cláudia Fernandes, Sara Silva

Abstract

Urban biodiversity has an intrinsic value as it sustains fundamental

ecologic processes that have economic, recreational and aesthetic

relevance to human societies. Most studies on urban biodiversity are

restricted to ecological assessment overlooking aesthetic qualities.

The extreme anthropogenic environment of urban areas allows minor

access to natural aesthetics. rContact with naturea is being

progressively acknowledged as highly beneficial to human health and

well-being with increasing amount of data sustaining that assumption

An attempt to relate biodiversity and aesthetics is not a

straightforward process, as high biodiversity may not be automatically

associated to high aesthetic value and vice-versa. But within the urban context, where most natural / green spaces are the result of human design and maintenance it seems

relevant to insist on addressing this subject.

In urban green spaces planting compositions display a variety of habitat

opportunities for wildlife with different aesthetic interest and value. It

seems however that some types of planting compositions are

Vegetation and Water - Public Attitudes to Biodiversity in Design

simultaneously rich in species and aesthetically pleasing

In order to contribute to this subject a pilot study was conducted on

three small public parks in the city of Porto.

An assessment was made, aiming at finding a relation between spatial

character of green spaces (vegetation structure, composition and

distribution), species richness and visual aesthetic quality. Results

suggest a relation between certain planting design strategies and

higher levels of biodiversity. Variety in vegetation structure and

composition seems to have a positive effect both on biodiversity and

on visual aesthetic quality. Results are discussed in order to achieve

design guidelines for biodiversity stimulation in urban green spaces.

Studies on urban biodiversity should include more reflection on the

aesthetic quality of the urban green structure considering the

proximity, access and direct use of the human beings. These outputs

are relevant to discuss and develop the design strategies and principles

that meet the targets of a multipurpose urban green structure with

optimized biodiversity content.

The rehabilitation of Oporto public residential spaces through public space

design

Isabel Martinho da Silva, Paulo Marques, Ana Loureiro

Abstract

Most of Porto public residential spaces are residual spaces and lack

function, spatial design and clear identity. This occurs both in social

housing quarters and in low to upper middle-class residential quarters.

The potential of residential public spaces is not fully used due

essentially to poor design and they work more like waste land or

nameless spaces between buildings. The consequent lack of

identification with these public spaces, results in their

misappropriation, as they are neither used nor acknowledged,

configuring a situation of \non-places].

This research aims at developing an intervention strategy for Porto

public residential spaces, by designing opportunities to inhabit, to

socialize, and to recreate, creating places of identification and

belonging in correspondence with the quarteras social character.

The methodology includes: field surveys, analysis and interpretation of

data, synthesis and a design proposal. Analysis and interpretation of

data collected during field surveys allows the identification of existing

open space typologies and associated activities. Further analysis and

reflection leads to the definition of a spatial conceptual model which

synthesises the main character zones and associated functions,

presenting the general intervention guidelines for the different spaces.

The goals are the creation of opportunities for an improved spatial

design, providing a higher diversity of public spaces, organizing the

existing ones and promoting an overall sense of place.

The study area includes four social housing quarters and two middle

class quarters. Two of the social housing quarters went through a

recent rehabilitation process but show no significant improvements so

far as open spaces are concerned.

Apart from the development of the conceptual model described above,

this study leads to an important conclusion: poor public residential

spaces are not correlated with household value or resident social level,

they are just a consequence of bad design. It also allow us to observe

that the rehabilitation undertaken in two social housing quarters

resulted in some aesthetic improvement but had no impact in the

functional and social issues that this research aims to address, which

reinforces the need for a new design paradigm for Oporto public

residential spaces.

Stowe by Alan Titchmarsh

Após vários anos desde a criação de uma conta no youtube, finalmente ataquei esta ferramenta, com o pretexto de inserir alguns videos que realizei durante o meu estágio em Stowe Landscape Gardens. Pois bem, decidi agora ir buscar um video da BBC, partilho aqui este episodio dedicado a Stowe, dos documentarios Alan Titchmarsh's Garden Secrets, que alías já tinha citado neste blogue antes de seguir para o estágio

http://nucleoap.blogspot.com/2010/12/stowe-2.html

Algumas fotos do album de Stowe no facebook....Stowe que não vi, mas gostaria de ter visto, quem sabe um dia....

Projecto de Kim Wilkie em Boughton House por nós visitado, referido no documentário de Titchmarsh e tamém citado em post da nossa autoria

http://nucleoap.blogspot.com/2010/02/que-e-isto.html

Documentário Alan Titchmarsh's Garden Secrets

58min, dividido em 5 partes, disponivel no meu canal youtube

http://www.youtube.com/Liipscape

http://liipscape.blogspot.com/

Obra Prima do Paisagismo Contemporaneo....

Little Sparta é o Jardim do Multi-facetado Ian Hamilton Finlay o escocês Poeta, escritor, Artista, Paisagista e Editor.

vale a pena deambular e explorar esta obra cheia de significados...

http://www.littlesparta.co.uk/explore/explore.htm

http://www.littlesparta.co.uk/home.htm

http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/

inspirado pelo livro que encontrei hoje na Biblioteca de Stowe

http://www.amazon.com/Ian-Hamilton-Finlay-Visual-Primer/dp/094846240X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1306966764&sr=8-4

STOWE

Lights...

"lights"...Luzes...Crepusculo(s)...

uma selecção de imagens, videos e sons!

STOWE LANDSCAPE GARDENS

Buckinghamshire, England

videos :

The Arctic Light from TSO Photography on Vimeo.



EARTH: The Pale Blue Dot from Michael Marantz on Vimeo.

http://www.facebook.com/thesaganseries

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2oXFWKpJiA&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCfemmxqaRg&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxsJeND_D-k&feature=related

Richard Wheeler em Portugal

Em Lisboa:

Local do curso: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Edifício I&D, nº26, Sala Multiusos nº 2 – Piso 4.

Datas: 1 e 8 Abril, 6, 20 e 27 Maio, 3 Junho.

Visita de estudo: 21 Maio (8 horas)

Open lecture: 4 Abril (15.00 às 19.00)

Horário: 16.00 às 20.00

Preço: € 140,00 (Estudantes: € 100,00)

Público-alvo: Público em geral

Participantes: Mín.50

Dando sequência ao primeiro curso de Gestão Patrimonial organizado em 2010, a 2ª edição do Curso de Especialização, de que a Fundação Oriente é parceira, pretende reforçar as competências dos profissionais e estudantes dedicados a este sector, com um enfoque em três dimensões específicas do universo da gestão patrimonial: a dimensão prática e operativa de uma intervenção de conservação e restauro, procurando interiorizar a importância da gestão com rigor nas obras de conservação e restauro, assim como as múltiplas valências que integram uma acção desta natureza.

Seguir-se-á a análise de dois casos de estudo de gestão integrada, comparando a visão pública com a visão privada. Ainda neste módulo, espaço para o enquadramento jurídico da gestão do património, procurando identificar o que compete a quem, as lacunas da legislação e como as mesmas traduzem uma determinada visão do Estado na dinâmica patrimonial. E, por fim, a abordagem estritamente económico-financeira a este recurso tanto do ponto de vista teórico, como do ponto de vista de um agente com prática de investimento no bem em causa.

De destacar ainda uma Open Lecture do National Trust (Reino Unido), no intuito de trazer até Portugal a visão de uma associação privada fundada no século XIX e que conta com 3,3 milhões de associados na gestão de património de diferente natureza. Como na anterior edição, o curso contempla ainda uma visita de estudo de dia inteiro a casos práticos, concretamente aos Parques de Sintra Monte da Lua, para reforçar a aprendizagem com base na experiência concreta por parte dos participantes.

PROGRAMA:

I - CONSERVAÇÃO DO PATRIMÓNIO

1 Abril

Apresentação e problemática do Curso

Catarina Valença Gonçalves (IHA - FCSH)

Conservação programada

Nuno Proença (Nova Conservação Lda.)

8 Abril

Organização técnica e financeira

Vitor Cóias e Silva (GeCoRPA)

II – Gestão do Património

6 Maio

Gestão Privada: Museu do Oriente

João Amorim (Fundação Oriente e Museu do Oriente)

20 Maio

A visão do Estado na perspectiva jurídica

José Luís Bonifácio Ramos (FDUL)

(Visita de Estudo) 21Maio

Parques de Sintra Monte da Lua

António Lamas (Parques de Sintra Monte da Lua SA)

III – Economia do Património

27 Maio

Economia Patrimonial

José Maria Lobo de Carvalho (IST/Parques de Sintra Monte da Lua SA)

3 Junho

Caso-de-estudo “Sagres”

Simon Punter (ILM Consulting)

Conclusão e encerramento

Catarina Valença Gonçalves (IHA - FCSH)

IV – Open Lecture

14 Abril

Visão integrada da gestão patrimonial

Richard Wheeler (The National Trust)

INSCRIÇÕES ATÉ 15 DE MARÇO EM:

cursodegestaopatrimonial@fcsh.unl.pt

http://cursodegestaopatrimonial.blogspot.com/

http://www.igespar.pt/pt/agenda/4/1962/

http://www.museudooriente.pt/1199/ii-curso-de-especializacao-em-gestao-patrimonial.htm

Em Portalegre:

1º Congresso Internacional Alentejo: Património do Tempo

15 e 16 de Abril de 2011

Centro de Artes do Espectáculo de Portalegre

A Turismo do Alentejo, ERT pretende que o 1º Congresso Internacional Alentejo: Património do Tempocontribua definitivamente para uma maior diversidade de produtos de Touring Cultural na região alentejana, consolidando e explorando com benefícios económico-sociais palpáveis todo o potencial do património e da cultura desta região de Portugal

http://www.congressoturismodoalentejo.com/index.php?lop=

http://www.congressoturismodoalentejo.com/index.php?lop=conteudo&op=33e75ff09dd601bbe69f351039152189&id=14bfa6bb14875e45bba028a21ed38046

http://www.uevora.pt/divulgacoes_externas/11_congresso_internacional_alentejo_patrimonio_do_tempo

Sinopse da apresentação:

Richard Wheeler, The National Trust.

All The Heritage,

a unified approach to conservation and heritage.

This lecture takes examples from all over England and Wales on how the preservation

and conservation of heritage assets not only enhance the intrinsic natural and manmade

beauty of the place, but in so doing, play a major role in the local economy.

The Trust’s work by its very nature is only a small part of a complex matrix of land

management, so whilst in the Lake District of Cumbria, the Trust is the major

landowner, in other areas it plays a more minor role. But in all cases the Trust will

fight for beauty, and make it available, either physically or visually, for the whole

Nation.

In my talk we shall be visiting mountains and moors, cliffs and coasts, farms and

forests, and last but by no means least, ( and here the alliteration stops), great houses

and their gardens. We shall go from Cornwall to Northumberland, and the western

rocky extremities of Wales and Northern Ireland to the flatlands of East Anglia – but

all with their own particular vision of natural beauty, and historic interest.

And this latter phrase is embodied in the title of the National Trust – for Places of

Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.

RWW March 2011

Richard Wheeler apontamento Biográfico:

Richard Wheeler is the National Trust’s Curator of Gardens and Parks in the south and west of England and, after training as a surveyor, has worked for the Trust for 33 years.

In his current role he is available to give curatorial and historical advice on some 98 Grade I and Grade II gardens on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

Currently he is assisting with major projects at Stowe Landscape Gardens, Hidcote Manor, Cliveden, Biddulph Grange, Croome Court, Sissinghurst Castle and Ashridge Park.

He lectures and writes regularly, mainly on the Iconography of Eighteenth Century Gardens, and, in conjunction with Ashridge College, runs an annual Garden History Summer School, now in its fifteenth year.

Apart from his work with the National Trust, he is a Council Member of the Garden History Society and Chairman of its Conservation Committee, a Trustee of the Georgian Group, and Chairman of the Chilterns Architectural Design Award Scheme.

Richard Wheeler lives in the Lodge at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury. Hartwell was given to the Trust in 2008, a part of one of the most generous gifts it has received in its 115 year history.

in.http://www.florens2010.com/en/node/1554

este post é uma sintese de um post original localizado em:

http://nucleoapinternacional.blogspot.com/2011/03/com-richard-wheeler-em-stoweque-ira.html

Glimpses of STOWE ...

to work.....8.00 am

sunrise

busy morning

oxford bridge near boycott yard

temple of friendship Hawkwell field

sunshine near temple of friendship

Palladian bridge

Gothic temple Hawkwell hill and cobham monument Monumental Cedrus and Quercus Ilex

octagon lake

Lake pavillions (WALLPAPER!!!)

Eleven Acre lake from Cascade

Octagon lake near sleeping wood

Sleeping Wood being replanted after centuries...

Rotunda

Octagon Lake panorama

Sleeping wood panorama

Stowe Avenue before launch end of the morning......


beneath Corinthian Arch

Uma re-edição de um post na minha pagina do facebook mas com maior qualidade nas imagens

http://www.facebook.com/filipe.harte

STOWE (2)

Aproveito a estreia da nova série de

Alan Titchmarsh

http://www.alantitchmarsh.com/index.html

na BBC no passado mês de Novembro

para voltar aos posts sobre Stowe

(local onde no ano que vem irei fazer o meu estágio)

trata-se de

Alan Titchmarsh's Garden Secrets

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w15w0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2010/11/whenever-im-looking-for-inspir.shtml

série de 4 episodios onde o célebre autor e apresentador Inglês nos fala de 4 jardins que o mais influenciaram, em 4 periodos: séculos XVII -XVIII -XIX e XX

o episodio dedicado ao sculo XVIII remete-nos para STOWE que segundo o autor: "é o meu jardim paisagista inglês favorito" ("Stowe my favorite landscape garden")

Alan em conversa com Dr. Kate Felus

http://www.historiclandscapes.co.uk/experience.htm

http://www.historiclandscapes.co.uk/principal.htm

sinopse:

Alan Titchmarsh presents a stunning series that reveals the amazing secrets behind Britain's great gardens, examining how they continue to influence gardeners, including himself, today.

Few gardening movements can match the impact of the 18th-century landscape movement, and Stowe in Buckinghamshire is one of the most important examples of their revolutionary designs. Here we find a rejection of the rigid formality of the previous century and an embracing of nature, no matter what the ecological cost.

Alan demonstrates how they 'borrowed' views, manipulating the landscape to draw the eye to certain features. Creating a focal point is now a staple of modern garden design and Alan shows how it can accentuate a garden's best bits and also be used to hide things.

Designers such as Bridgeman at Stowe were the first to sculpt huge areas of lawn, and Alan meets Kim Wilkie (já dedicamos um post sobre este autor : http://nucleoap.blogspot.com/2010/02/que-e-isto.html) who is creating his own modern version of this type of lawn at Boughton Park. And Alan shows how the landscape movement pioneered the meandering path and placed statues and buildings in key places, aging them deliberately to fit with the landscape. Alan shares his own tips on aging, and how to recreate this type of 'set dressing' in a garden.

pode seguir este episodio no iplayer da BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00w5d7n/Alan_Titchmarshs_Garden_Secrets_18th_Century/

ou então fazer o download em eztv

esta é mais uma série à ja extensa filmografia de Alan Titchmarsh

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=dvd&ref=dp_dvd_bl_act&field-keywords=Alan%20Titchmarsh

STOWE

Iniciamos com este post uma nova série dedicada as obras primas da Arquitectura Paisagista Europeia...iniciamos também uma série de posts que terá maior intensidade em 2011 sobre Stowe local onde iremos fazer o nosso estagio...

para começarmos sem grande presunção, remetemos os nossos leitores para uma viagem por Stowe com o documentario de Jonathan Meades...ficando as observaçoes teoricas e criticas da paisagem para posts seguintes

http://www.jonathanmeades.com/stowe.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Meades