Join us for our first online talk, ‘The mid-to-late twentieth century landscape designs of Preben Jakobsen' written and presented by Karen Fitzsimon. Karen is a chartered landscape architect and horticulturist, former Trustee of Turn End Trust and a visiting lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Karen was awarded the 10th Annual Garden History Essay Prize for 'Order in the Landscape: Rediscovering Preben Jakobsen'. The 55-minute long talk will be followed by a Q&A session.
Jakobsen described himself as a "modernist landscape architect, plantsman, urban designer and photographer". This talk will attempt to show you what he meant, and provide a taster of the beauty of his work through his effective integration of landscape and architecture.
Jakobsen first trained in horticulture in Denmark, followed by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and later studied landscape architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen under the father of Danish landscape modernism, Professor Carl Theodor Sørensen. For over seven years he was Eric Lyon's landscape architect contributing to the distinctive Span housing landscapes. He was an exceptional plantsman who practiced through the lens of abstract art and geometry seeking "a new expression in landscape design" to integrate architecture and landscape.
Karen Fitzsimon B.Ag. Science (Horticulture) Hons, PGDip Landscape Architecture, MA (Garden History) is a chartered landscape architect and horticulturist. She has extensive experience of working within the public and private sectors delivering landscape design projects across housing, educational and recreational sites, and more recently historical research and conservation. Karen has a specialist interest in the British post-war designed landscape and is currently undertaking doctoral studies investigating the practice of the UK based Danish landscape architect Preben Jakobsen (1934-2012) at the University of Westminster, where she is also a guest studio critic. Additionally, she is a visiting lecturer at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Karen was awarded the 10th Annual Garden History Essay Prize for 'Order in the Landscape: Rediscovering Preben Jakobsen'.
Tickets £6.00 (Friends £5.00)
Photograph: © Hannan IMAGES
