Lecture 1: Friday 15th January: England’s post-war designed landscapes: rediscovered and revalued – an overview. Karen Fitzsimon CMLI

This ticket is for this individual session and you may purchase tickets for other individual sessions via the links from the series course here (which also gives an overview of the series), or you may purchase a ticket for the entire course of 8 sessions via the same link .

8 weekly online talks, Fridays @ 10.30 starting January 15th, £5 each or all 8 for £36.

Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk (If you do not receive this link please contact us), and a link to the recorded session will be sent shortly afterwards.

Karen Fitzsimon is a chartered landscape architect, garden historian and horticulturalist. She has extensive experience of working in the public and private sector across a range of landscape projects. She co-curated the 2017 Gardens Trust symposium Mid to late C20 Designed Landscapes: Overlooked, undervalued and at risk? and co-designed and managed the associated Compiling the Record Campaign. She worked with Historic England on their Modern Gardens and Landscapes Project and was a member of their post-war landscape expert panel that led to the addition of 24 sites, or elements of, to the National Heritage List for England in 2020. She is currently undertaking doctoral research at University of Westminster about the landscape practice of Preben Jakobsen within the context of British post-war landscape architecture. She lectures about her research and other aspects of landscape architecture and her writing has been published in the landscape press including in 100 20th-Century Gardens & Landscapes (2020, C20 Society); Landscape – The Journal of the Landscape Institute; The Daily Telegraph; The Modernists; C20 Magazine and GT News. She was awarded the 2014 Garden History Society Annual Essay Prize for Order in the Landscape: Rediscovering Preben Jakobsen. She is a trustee of the modernist development Turn End, Buckinghamshire.

image credit: St Catherine's College Oxford by Arne Jacobsen mid 1960s © Historic England Archive