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SCHOOL's OUT! #19 With ADRIAAN GEUZE

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Great News! For School’s Out! #19 we have invited one of the most influential and famous landscape architects of the Netherlands: Adriaan Geuze. Geuze studied landscape architecture at the University of Wageningen, after which he founded the office for urban design and landscape architecture WEST8 in 1987. In 1990 Geuze won the Prix de Rome award and established an enormous reputation with his office on an international level with his unique approach to planning and design of the public environment. He states that 'the real future in today's debate about sustainability lies not in a political or philosophical dialogue about what we are protecting or how we are going to 'sustain' it, but rather how to actively create new ecologies. Creating land and then painting it: in many ways, this is the soul of Dutch culture'. School’s Out! #19 will take place on the 25th of June at 19.00 CET.

Adriaan Geuze attended the Agricultural University of Wageningen where he received a Masters degree in Landscape Architecture. In 1987 Adriaan Geuze was one of the founders of the award-winning international office WEST8. Amongst the numerous design awards that WEST8 has won, are the Dutch Maaskant Award in 1995, the Rosa Barba First European Landscape prize in 2002 and the Veronica Rudge Green Prize for Urban Design from the Harvard Design School in 2002. Internationally respected as a professor in Architecture and Urban Design, Geuze frequently lectures and teaches at universities worldwide. In 2005 Geuze was given the prestigious position of curator for the 2nd International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam and was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Mondrian Fonds in 2011. With WEST8, Adriaan Geuze has been honoured with the success of winning various international design competitions such as Governors Island in New York, Playa de Palma in Mallorca, Toronto’s New Central Waterfront design in Canada, and Yongsan Park in Seoul, Korea.

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