Haus der Landschaft/ L-x, intl. lectures on Landscape Architecture

Parks of the last hundred years (1913-1978-2020)
Designing green spaces and (social) climate

The close link between landscape architecture andnatural conditions – topography, vegetation, ecology and climatic factors -makes it a discipline that drives the necessary transformation of man-madehabitats towards climate compatibility and biodiversity. At the same time,through its core focus on the public realm, it is a discipline which is at theforefront of fundamental social and socio-political issues. Both of theseaspects flow into the design, which is concerned with the current issues ofspatial translation and aesthetic manifestation. These aspects can be analysedusing the example of the urban park: Three typical European works from the last hundred years illustrate the questions that landscape architecture answers, how they have developed and what parks need to achieve in the long term.

ZDENĚK SENDLER, RADKO KVĚT, JÚLIA BOBRÍKOVÁ (BRÜNN)1913: SLOVANSKÉ NÁMĚSTÍ – RESTORATION OF A MODERNIST PARK BY LEBERECHT MIGGE
7.12.2023, 19:00 Uhr, Depot: Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Wien

For more than a century, parks have responded to climate and social challenges. The lecture series explores the role of parks in the urban environment. The first lecture presents a park designed by the modernist and ‚life reformer‘ Leberecht Migge in 1913 and restored in 2006. The landscape architect and the architect who restored the park explain their findings on the original design, the role Migge envisaged for the park and how they have interpreted the restoration work.

CHRISTIAN STERN (ASP LANDSCHAFTSARCHITEKTEN, ZÜRICH)1978: IRCHELPARK, EIN NATURNAHER LANDSCHAFTSPARK
18.1.2024, 19:00 Uhr, Depot: Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Wien

Irchelpark was conceived as a landscape park in the wake of the environmental movement. It is close to nature and focuses on the development of habitats through to spontaneous vegetation and wild growth. The established recreational area is a listed building. Landscape architect Christian Stern designed the park with Eduard Neuenschwander in 1978 and will explain its creation, reception and current significance.