beauty/slavonice:
Slavonice Studio
Landscape Architecture
Spring 2010
Studio Slavonice, a landscape architecture workshop led by OLIN Partners Laurie Olin and Hallie Boyce at PennDesign, matches the talent of graduate landscape architecture students with real-world
design problems. The immersive and continuing project, centered in the medieval Czech city Slavonice, focuses on urban and rural design issues identified as urgent by the Slavonice City Council.
The students’ solutions — beautiful in form, practical in application — and the integrative exercise prove academic settings conform to no borders.
Studio Slavonice a landscape architecture workshop led by OLIN Partners Laurie Olin and Hallie Boyce at the PennDesign, explores sustainable development of the Green Belt, an area of the former Iron Curtain containing some of the most significant habitats for biodiversity in Europe. Olin and Boyce, along with 15 of their students, travelled to Slavonice to present the results of the workshop with the local community at the Centre for the Future, an organization that promotes research directed toward a sustainable and diverse future.—Laurie Olin
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