James Melsom Landschaftsarchitekt BSLA

JM LA BSLA

James Melsom Landschaftsarchitekt BSLA

James Melsom is a Senior Lecturer and practicing Landscape Architect and member of the BSLA, the Swiss Institute of Landscape Architects, collaborating in projects in Switzerland and throughout Europe.
Co-founder of the research laboratory LANDSKIP with Ilmar Hurkxkens working throughout the world on landscape scanning, research, analysis and transformation projects.
Currently Senior Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney, UTS. From 2007 to 2017 he worked as teacher and research fellow at the Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich girot.arch.ethz.ch.

NEWS
2024.01 SYDNEY : An invited article published in LANDSCAPE AUSTRALIA magazine on Landscape Technology & Innovation.
2024.01 BASEL : A travelling studio shall take place with 16 Australian Landscape and Architecture students throughout Switzerland in January and February of 2024, lead by James Melsom.
2023.12 BALI : A travelling studio took place with 20 Australian Landscape Architecture students and 5 local students from Udayana University, Denpasar throughout Bali December of 2023, lead by James Melsom.
2023.03 ZURICH : A chapter in the ETH Zurich publication TERRAIN VOGUE.
2022.10 SYDNEY : National AILA Landscape Award for research, more details at the UTS announcement.
2021.04 VENICE : A video work and aerial photography by James Melsom of LANDSKIP are part of the Future Assembly exhibition, at the heart of the Central Pavillion in the Venice Biennale of Architecture with Alessandra Ciancetta of AWP . The exhibition is curated by Studio Other Spaces and Olafur Eliasson, among others.
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2021.04 VENICE : Ongoing research work into designing in fire affected landscapes has been exhibited in the Italian pavilion in the Venice Biennale of Architecture with Dr. Penny Allan of the University of Technology Sydney
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2019.02 SYDNEY : James Melsom has accepted an appointment as Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney focussing on teaching and research.
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