Lea River Valley
Sensitive Systems 02
Architectural Association
Landscape Urbanism
London, United Kingdom, 2000-2001
Professor and Director: Ciro Najle
Lecturers and Collaborators: Mohsen Mostafavi, Sandra Morris, Ian Carradice, Chris Fannin, Juan Herreros
Students: Simona Bencini, Santiago Bozzola, Nabeel Essa, Fabian Hecker, Frven Lim, Rosalea Monacella, Armando Oliver Suinaga, Jose Parral, Touchapon Suntrajarn, Julián Varas, Julia Wessendorf
In the attempt to direct and exploit the potentials emerging from the multiple processes of urban and environmental transformation, Landscape Urbanism constitutes a collective endeavour to construct new models of architectural practice where the techniques and modes of operation historically described as landscape design can be integrated within the domain of urbanism. The investigation aims at engaging with coexistent temporalities with a single comprehensive technical body and at managing them through the differentiation of ever expansive organizational devices.
Sensitive Systems 02 develops proposals for the Lea River Valley corridor, where a chain of abandoned or dysfunctional territories is inconsistently intertwined by muddled infrastructural corridors. The strip, poor in its energetic exchanges and urban diversity, receives influx of a variety of urban and natural forces, traditionally overwhelmed by industrial production.
