BAS SMETS Augmented Landscape

We are happy to announce the lecture by Bas Smets as part of the series Habitat & Environment within the course of Superstudio. The lecture is moderated by Prof. Van Gerrewey.

Bas Smets has a background in landscape architecture, civil engineering and architecture. He founded his firm in Brussels in 2007 and has since completed projects in more than 12 countries with his team of twenty architects and landscape architects.
Starting from a precise reading of the existing land, his projects reveal a landscape, visible yet unseen. These projects vary in scale from territorial visions to infrastructural landscapes, from large parks to private gardens, from city centres to film sets.
Bas Smets’ realised projects include the park of Thurn & Taxis and the Saint-Gilles Plaza in Brussels; the public space around the Trinity Tower in Paris La Défense, the Sunken Garden and the Mandrake Hotel in London, the Himara Waterfront in Albania and the Parc des Ateliers in Arles.
Each of these projects is part of an encompassing research into the possible roles of landscape projects. The aim is to invent ‘Augmented Landscapes’ by using the logics of nature.
These augmented landscapes produce a new climate while creating new atmospheres. The collaboration with artists and scientists takes a central role in this research.