Landscape architect Kristine Jensen is the first lecturer in a lecture
row presented by the Federation of Icelandic Landscape Architects in
collaboration with the Nordic House. The lecture will take place on
March 20 at 17:15 in the Nordic House.
The motivation for Kristine Jensen is very often the specific site and place, - so it comes natural to lecture on the company projects from this title. Kristine Jensen is the recipient of The Rosa Barba European Landscape Architectural from September 2008 in Barcelona for the project Nicolaj which will be presented in the lecture.
Kristine Jensen is a danish landscape architect with an architectural studio that works visionary with landscape architecture, city-space and planning. The Studio was started in 2001 by Kristine Jensen, but although the firm is quite young, she has worked over 25 years with landscape architecture within different positions, both in practice and theoretically. She has a long experience in the field of education and research. She holds a PhD in landscape architecture and has been teaching and given lectures in Germany, USA, Norway and Sweden.
Her studio AKJT works in a cross field somewhere in between site specific analytics, strategic thinking, social understanding and focus on natural resources. The studio deals with and develops planning issues and projects for both private and public clients in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Germany. The studio staff counts 10 employees both landscape architects, planners and architects. The architecture from the studio embraces present time both in materials, architectural language and in the ability to use the latest modern technologies whether high or low. And at the same time the work belongs in the classic architectural tradition and philosophy by speaking from both place and culture. An intellectual curiosity along side high architectural ambitions, and in the capacity on how to land modern concepts in convincing solutions and techniques are recognized in different city-spaces such as Prags Boulevard and Nicolaj. But the conviction on the social aspect of architecture makes the studio as preoccupied with cities, urban planning as with landscapes and sustainability.
www.kristinejensen.dk
www.coac.net/landscape/guanyador_premi_eng.html