/ Dutch landscape architects and urban planners are tackling major issues of the day, such as climate change and urban renewal, and yet they continue to design and deliver pleasing and attractive public spaces. The Yearbook of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design in the Netherlands presents 19 outstanding projects that reflect the current state of affairs. 

Lavishly illustrated, the Yearbook contains clear descriptions of the selected projects, a report on the selection committee’s considerations, an essay on meeting the acute housing needs in the Netherlands, an interview with urban designer Edzo Bindels of West 8, and a photo reportage on rural dereliction.

Press on former yearbooks:

Excellent reference work and up to date too. All in all an absolute must-have. 

Landscape Laboratories 

A blank spot in practice: urban woods. Alnarp’s Landscape Laboratory  in Sweden has  

inspired the creation of experimental sites in Europe. 

/ Introduction – Free the woods from anesthesia! / Lisa Diedrich and Catherine Szanto

/ The Pioneer – A campus lab / Roland Gustavsson

/ Creative Management – An interview with Allan Gunnarsson and Erik Svensson / Christel Lindgren

/ Pocket woods for 21st century urban landscapes / Anders Busse Nielsen

/ On experimentation across science, design and society / Stephan Darlan Boris

/ Landscape Laboratories for the World! / Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch

Projects: Alnarp’s Landscape Laboratory / Snogeholm / Vidernas Park / Sletten / Eskelund

/ Liege / Zurich / Köln / Langeaux / Paris / Bordeaux

This digital booklet is published to accompany a series of three lectures on ‘A Dutch Approach’, organized by H+N+S Landscape Architects to mark their 25th anniversary.

This essay aims to draw attention to the ideology characteristic of H+N+S and to position it as a specific approach to landscape and landscape architecture. The achievements of H+N+S are relatively unknown outside the Netherlands. The result may be a splendid landscape but, more often, the product is groundbreaking research, an exploration, or a vision.