PROAP invites you to our annual landscape architecture event, on the 17th December from 06:00 PM, at MUDE – Design and Fashion Museum, in Rua Augusta, Lisbon, Portugal.

The event will consist of a conference and the international launch of PROAP’s latest publishing endeavor, the book ‘Lost Competitions’. A recognition of the importance of competitions as decisive research moments in our practice and our perception on landscape.

During the month of September, Landscape Architect João Nunes will be giving several conferences in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, lecturing on the theme “Time and Landscape”.

The conferences will present PROAP’s main Landscape design methodologies as well as the team’s most relevant projects.

September 21, Wednesday, 7:30 PM
SENAC, organizada por ABP (http://www.sp.senac.br/)
São Paulo

September 22, Thursday, 10:00 AM
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie ( http://www.mackenzie.br/)
São Paulo

September 23, Friday (under confirmation)
Escola da Cidade – Faculdade de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (http://www.escoladacidade.edu.br/)
São Paulo

September 24, Saturday, 01:00 PM
14º Congresso Brasileiro da Paisagem (http://www.falandodefeiras.info/2011/09/14-congresso-brasileiro-de-paisagismo.html)
Pavilhão de Exposições do Anhembi
Avenida Olavo Fountora, 1209, Santana, São Paulo

September 26, Monday, 09:00 AM
Centro Acadêmico - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (http://www.pucpr.br/)
Curitiba 

September 26, Monday, 05:00 PM
Universidade de São Paulo – Faculdade de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (http://www.usp.br/fau/index2.html)
São Paulo

September 27, Tuesday, 05:00 PM
Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa (http://www.casaruibarbosa.gov.br/)
Rua São Clemente, 134 (próximo à estação do metro do Botafogo), Rio de Janeiro

September 28, Wednesday, 11:00 AM
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – Faculdade de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (http://www.fau.ufrj.br/)
Rio de Janeiro

At the IFLA conference, from 27th to 29th June, Zurich, Switzerland, PROAP will present the theme Landscape Architecture: Space between Nature and Artifice, with City Life Urban Park as case study.

João Nunes, Jürgen Weidinger, Alexandre Lisboa, Margarida Cancela d’Abreu, José Gameiro Fernandes, Teresa Andresen, João Ceregeiro, Nuno Mota, Henrique Pereira dos Santos, Tiago Torres Campos, Luís Cabral e Isabel Mata Torres talked about their shift from academic to professional practice to landscape architecture students from Lisbon (ISA) and Berlin (Technical University), during the Annual Seminar of Landscape Architecture.

On May 31^st, João Nunes was honored to participate in the 'Built Landscapes' conferences, which took place at the Institute for Landscape Architecture in Vienna, Austria. His lecture focused on the theme 'Time and Landscape', which included some of PROAP’s most significant projects.

We've made the presentation available for download, here.

We've celebrated, last 20th of December, the launch of the book and the commemoration of PROAP's 20th anniversary.  The event, that included conferences, presentation of future publications and the launch of a new urban furniture line designed by João Nunes and Larus, marked an exciting and significant moment on PROAP's path.

PROAP wishes to thank all participants, collaborators and partners that made this path and celebration possible.

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Narrating Proap’s extensive work, through 18 built works and 9 projects is a hard, but interesting and revealing task. Given the considerable number of built works and projects carried out over the last 20 years, the criteria employed in this election were extensive. On one hand, we wanted to present the latest and most emblematic projects and, on the other hand, we wanted to reveal different scales and interventions types, however, undoubtedly, what we most  arduously endeavoured, in this publication, was to narrate and illustrate a story; the story of each project and each intervention.

PROAP, forming a team with the Spanish ateliers id-OPERA and BET FIGUERAS, won the International Ideas Competition for the design of the Urban Park of Valdebebas in Madrid, Spain.

In 2006, PROAP won the International Competition for the design of the Master Plan for the Scheldt Quays in Antwerp (Belgium), together with WIT Architecten (Belgium) and D-Recta (Italy). This weekend, PROAP presented the draft version of the Master Plan to the people of Antwerp on the International Symposium «The Days of the Quays».

From the 19^th to the 21^st of March 2009, the city of Antwerp and Waterwegen en Zeekanaal (W&Z) organized an International Symposium for professionals, community based organizations and the inhabitants of Antwerp, where the first plans of the Master Plan were presented and discussed. The symposium is part of a whole participation and information process to involve Antwerp’s inhabitants in the reconstruction of the Scheldt Quays. Together with the symposium, the city of Antwerp opened the exposition KAAILAND Expo, an exhibition about the past, today and the future of the Quays.