Lecture 6: Friday 19th February: ‘An Abundance of Green and Open Spaces’ housing landscapes in the post-war period. Dr. Luca Csepely-Knorr with Karen Fitzsimon CMLI

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Dr. Luca Csepely-Knorr is a chartered landscape architect and art historian, working as Reader at the Manchester School of Architecture. Her research centres on the history of late 19th and 20th century landscape architecture, with a particular emphasis on the development of the design theory of public spaces. She is Co-Investigator of the AHRC funded project ‘Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: Culture, Amenity, Heritage and Industry’ and co-convener of the multidisciplinary conference and research network ‘How Women Build?’. Luca has disseminated her work in both academic (Journal of Landscape Architecture, Childhood in the Past, 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art) and non-academic (Építészforum, Magyar Építőművészet, Landscape: The Journal of the Landscape Institute, The Modernist Magazine) publications, at conferences and seminars. She has guest-edited the Modernist Magazine’s ‘In-Between’ issue. Her book 'Barren Places to Public Spaces: A history of public park design in Budapest 1867-1914' was published both in Hungarian and English, and brought Luca the Special Jury Award by the Association of Hungarian Architects at the prestigious Landscape Architect of the Year gala in 2017.

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: Brunel Estate by Michael Brown 1970-74 ©Historic England Archive