Landscape architect Jo Gibbons on greening our cities
This AJ podcast on landscape, speaks to Jo Gibbons of landscape practice J&L Gibbons, whose wide-ranging work encompasses both the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden in Hackney and Walpole Park in Ealing, the setting of John Soane’s Pitzhanger Manor. Gibbons explains why she won’t go near a project unless she’s involved from the outset and why today, diversity of planting is essential for biosecurity. A frequent external examiner, Gibbons bemoans the fact that there are so few landscape architects, while in architecture schools, architects too often are designing landscapes with minimal landscape tuition.
