The long life and vast range of work of the architect and landscape architect, Hal Moggridge, also author, past president of the LI, winner of the LI medal, recipient of the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour and OBE, is to be the focus of a special one-day event.
Organised by FOLAR (Friends of the Landscape Archive at Reading), the event will be held on 11 September 2025 at The Royal College of Physicians, London.
Some of the most influential landscape architects, colleagues and academics, former clients and representatives from national and international landscape organisations will explore his approach to landscape architecture, as a practitioner, theorist, influencer, adviser, and national and international policy-maker. Hal Moggridge’s influence achieved through a modest and subtle approach and working with nature will underscore this unique event.
Speakers include Jennifer Adams, Diana Armstrong Bell, Martin Bhatia, Richard Burden, Chris Carter, Ralph Cobham, Dominic Cole, Luca Csepely-Knorr, Mark Darwent, Martha Fajardo, Trish Gibson, Diane Menzies, Helen Monger, Alan Powers, Steffie Shields, Tom Stuart-Smith, Tom Turner, Kim Wilkie, and Tim Gale as Chair.
Paul Walshe CMLI and Chair of ICOMOS-UK’s Cultural Landscapes & Historic Gardens Committee has known Hal for 50 years and writes that ‘People have always been at the heart of Hal’s work as a landscape architect as his wonderful book Slow Growth, On the Art of Landscape Architecture makes clear’. The book charts his work with the practice of Colvin and Moggridge, which he joined in 1969. Those years taught him that landscape architecture is a slow-moving art, a giving birth to revised arrangements of life to suit new needs; that the essential characteristics of natural elements cannot be altered by human action, merely rearranged; that the fundamental life-force of the world with which landscape architecture deals is not for reinvention. It’s a book that explores ideas and techniques of naturalistic landscape design as a means of promoting a passionate concern for landscape architecture as an art that works sustainably with nature and improves the quality of people’s lives.’
Aimed at inspiring students, young professionals and experienced landscape architects, architects and horticulturalists, this masterclass will also identify some of Hal’s most significant qualities, skills and approaches.
This will be a unique opportunity to listen, discuss, exchange ideas and contribute to make this day more special and unmissable!
