C. Th. Sørensen

Søren Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen (1893–1979) was a Danish landscape architect and one of the leading modernists of the 20th century, alongside Thomas Church, Geoffrey Jellicoe, and Luis Barragán. Best known for co-creating the first adventure playground in Copenhagen in 1940 with Hans Dragehjelm, he championed open, sunlit play spaces over cramped courtyards. His work combined geometric clarity with sculptural landforms, and he authored eight influential books on garden design, urban open space, and education. Sørensen taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, serving as professor from 1954 to 1963, and received the Eckersberg (1945) and Prince Eugen (1972) Medals for his contributions.

/ Urška Škerl

Almost every park needs a playground area and children’s playgrounds are one of the toughest typologies to design. The equipment available is either ugly or beyond budget, especially in the public realm. Then the programme is repetitive — poles, slides, swings, climbing walls, sandpits. For the designer to cover the developmental needs of all ages […]

/ Urška Škerl

The book by the legendary Danish landscape architect, Carl Theodor Sørensen (1893-1979), originally published in 1966, is for the first time published in English, with a foreword by Joost Emmerik and an Introduction by Lodewijk Wiegersma. Published by Blawdruk Publishers and Sonja Poll, the 39 Unusual Gardens for an Ordinary House is a landmark book […]

/ Zaš Brezar

Günther Vogt probably needs no introduction in our profession; he has been an important practitioner for a couple of decades now, appreciated globally for his rich, non-linear and adventurous design approach. Initially, his education was more in the direction of botany. He later shifted to landscape architecture by studying in Rapperswil, Switzerland. After his study […]

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