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Architecture & Interiors/2018/33 min/Reel № 18.001

ByPeter Veenstra

Landscape architect Peter Veenstra on the importance of bringing nature into our cities

Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Peter Veenstra takes architecture & interiors as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in Netherlands in 2018, the conversation is grounded in Peter's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Veenstra, of LOLA Landscapes, talks us through three projects including the Dome of Plants, planned for the City of Cape Town.

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About the speaker

Peter Veenstra

Netherlands

Landscape architect and partner in LOLA landscape architects.