Theory and Discourse
Landscape Program | Dr.Deepa Maheshwari, Sandip Patil, Bobby Sujan & Divya Priyesh Shah
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The landscape program at CEPT was developed with a pedagogy that viewed landscape through the lens of natural resource conservation and ecological landscape planning. Having now completed over twenty five years.
The program has allowed for the profession to take up a dynamic position and has encouraged its students to adopt a manner of profession that is encompassing of both research and practice. Through this course that provides the students with exploratory environments, they are encouraged to explore landscape design through varying perspectives.
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The landscape program at CEPT University is now in its twenty-fifth year in 2018. There is an urge for introspection, and setting a manifesto for the coming twenty-fifth years. The program was established in 1993 by late Professor PrabhakarBhagwat in consultation with the legendary Professor Brian Hackett of Newcastle University. Being a landscape architect with an undergraduate degree in natural sciences, Professor Bhagwat oriented the program in a radically different direction from the very beginning. While most landscape programs looked to provide landscape architects with requisite skillsets for practice in urban areas, the program at CEPT encouraged students to explore and study the larger region, especially smaller towns and rural areas.
Establishment and History
Professor Bhagwat and Professor Hackett were greatly influenced by Scandinavian landscape practice, and this reflected amply in their pedagogy as well as professional work. Under their guidance, the program boldly embraced a clear alignment with the European ecological land management processes, which Professor Bhagwat had experienced first-hand in the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK during his studies and employment there. Establishing a new program was a huge endeavour. Professor Bhagwat had the help of Professors B. V. Doshi and Dr Vakil at CEPT. The other important person in laying the foundations of studio learning at the landscape program was AniketBhagwat who is probably the only person who has a close insight into the two stalwarts of Indian landscape-his father Professor PrabhakarBhagwat and his teacher at Master of Landscape Architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, Professor Mohammed Shaheer. Aniket infused a fresh direction into the CEPT studios with his unique exploratory
approach and constant pivots to the studio programs.
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Report
ICOMOS: Heritage & Democracy
Nupur Prothi Khanna, Antara Sharma and Ritika Khanna
Spotlight
CEPT Landscape Celebrates 25 Years
Geeta Wahi Dua
Landscape Program:
Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, CEPT
Dr Deepa Maheshwari, Sandip Patil,
Bobby Sujan & Divya Priyesh Shah
Celebrating 50 Years of Landscape Architecture Education:
The University of Sheffield, UK
Jan Woudstra
About Design
Whither Design?
Iftikhar-mulk Chishti
Conversing with Nature
Sarthak Sinha
A Place for Expression and Togetherness
Anand Sonecha, SEA-Lab
Drawing
Free-hand Drawing as a Thinking and Analytical Tool
Manalee Nanavati
Tributes
Remembering KurulaVarkey
Neelkanth H. Chhaya
'My Tryst with Hasmukhbhai'
Sanjay Sridhar
Urbanism
Between itself and the World: Ahmedabad
Riyaz Tayyibji
Here Comes the Heart Attack:
Encroaching on the Public Realm
Sameer Chadha
From Practice of Indulgence to Practice of Service
In conversation with Rahul Mehrotra
Ecology and Environment
Understanding the Blue Systems: Bengaluru
Maithily Velangi
Landscape Design
Hidden Experiences: Bungalow, Ahmedabad
Beyond Green
Rejuvenating & Restoring Nature:
Capgemini Technology Services India, Pune
SAMA Landscape Architects
Redefining the Order of Green:
Farm House, Nashik
Ritu Sharma
Abode-e-Burhanpur: Residential Landscape
Nachiket Gujar
Seeing the Unseen
Between Notion and Reality
B. V. Doshi
Book Reviews
Meticulous Process, Meticulously Documented
Book: Rethinking Conservation Series:
Humayun's Tomb Conservation
Review by Urmila Rajadhyaksha
A Wanderer's Companion
Book: A Walking Tour: Ahmedabad
Review by Nisar Khan
The Abode: When Fading Memories Enliven the Present
Book: Krishna Lodge
Review by Snehanshu Mukherjee
Garden Calendar
Spring
Grotech Landscape Developers
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