On November 13th Bart Brands will be lecturing at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning lecture series, his talk will be an exploration of the Dutch DNA in landscape architecture.

The Netherlands is almost completely a product of engineering. Water, and the act of land reclamation from the sea, has led to a completely different relation between man and landscape. Nature is often not a given sublime beauty, but something man-made after centuries of fighting the waters. The act of shaping and designing the land always had more than just a beauty element to it, it was first and foremost functional. Landscape architecture is therefore deeply embedded in the Dutch DNA and this heritage gave way for a different approach to the profession.

For more details please visit the College of Environmental Design website.