VISION AND VISIONARIES: Nicholas Sweet / Barton Willmore International
Nature and Intervention Lecture at DAZ Taut Saal, 7.00 pm Entrance free. Please register at mail@daz. Nicholas Sweet is driven by the desire to interrupt the conventions of our times and to participate in fresh thinking about where we are and where we might now go. He has developed a passionate and particular interest in the potential to explore evidence in the natural world which might be taken as a guide to our interventions in the built environment. Illustrated by his own observations and experiences as a practitioner, he considers the potential to pay closer attention to the environmental clues that surround us and yet which we too frequently ignore, questioning whether our egotism has led us into a poor age, whether our response to climate change is driven by rhetoric rather than reality, whether we need more time to think before we respond to the challenges we are set, whether we are fulfilling our duty to our children with the way we behave today, whether the cities of tomorrow can be guided by something other than urgency. DAZ Lecture Series VISION AND VISIONARIES In looking at current developments around the world and within our civil societies, we are provoked to ask the complex question: “How do we want to live in the future?”. It is increasingly clear that, in order to meet the demands for a livable future environment, we will need visionary, interdisciplinary approaches to possible solutions. The DAZ is therefore initiating a lecture series in which protagonists that are outstanding and visionary in their respective discipline will reveal their projects, perspectives and strategies, thereby offering inspiration for the further development of a sustainable architecture and urban planning. Photos:
01. Juni 2011
The landscape architect and urbanist Nicholas Sweet works as an expert for complex masterplanning for more than 30 years. In 2005 he got partner of Barton Willmore, one of the leading UK firms in that field. His recent commissions in the Middle East include the KA-CARE initiative for a new carbonpositive city in Riyadh, as well as the King Abdullah International Gardens (KAIG) project, which will become the largest internal botanical garden in the world.
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King Abdullah International Gardens, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, © Barton Willmore (top)
KA-CARE Initiative, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, © Barton Willmore (bottom)
