Gintaras Stauskis

• Professor
• Professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

The increasing complexity of urban regeneration issues has recently made multi-stakeholder collaboration an important part to solve policy problems. While residents form an important part in a variety of collaborative governance processes, approaches used are often criticized as too formal, and lacking more inclusive participation. Therefore, new i...

The report is a set of recommendations for the design and implementation of the European CTF for landscape architects in the EU. This report is meant for teachers, researchers, and students in the field of landscape architecture who want to develop, improve, or be informed on master programmes in landscape architecture. It is especially relevant fo...

The Common Training Framework consists of three parts. Firstly, an Explanatory Memorandum that presents the background and the importance of landscape architecture, the new definition of the profession, the demography of the profession and development of landscape architecture education. Secondly the Recitals that presents the European legislation...

Cities are implementing numerous projects for improving their urban landscapes. The quality of planned landscape interventions is critical for the users and that depends on proper assessment of the projects. After theoretical and empirical research, the paper proposes the framework for quality assessment of landscape architecture projects in relati...

Žurnalo tikslas - skatinti konceptualų, mokslinį ir taikomąjį kraštovaizdžio architektūros supratimą, siekiant priimti tvarius ir estetiškai vertingus kraštovaizdžio pokyčių sprendimus. Kraštovaizdžiai yra žmogaus suvokiami vaizdai su kintamais erdviniais ir laiko parametrais. Jie turi išraiškingų estetinių, natūralių ir kultūrinių savybių, kurias...

Kraštovaizdžio architektūros projektų ir objektų kokybės vertinimo sistema Santrauka Lietuvos kraštovaizdžio architektų sąjungos ekspertai parengė daugiapakopę kraštovaizdžio architektūros projektų ir objektų kokybės vertinimo sistemą, kuri leidžia objektyviai įvertinti skirtingus kraštovaizdžio architektūros objektų projektus. Esama projektų verti...

Žurnalo "Kraštovaizdžio architektūra" tikslas - skatinti konceptualų, mokslinį ir taikomąjį kraštovaizdžio architektūros supratimą, siekiant priimti tvarius ir estetiškai vertingus kraštovaizdžio pokyčių sprendimus. Kraštovaizdžiai yra žmogaus suvokiami vaizdai su kintamais erdviniais ir laiko parametrais. Jie turi išraiškingų estetinių, natūralių...

The European Union (EU) Directive 2013/55/EC amends Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications. The 2013 amendment allows Member States to decide on a common set of minimum knowledge, skills and competences required to pursue a given profession through a Common Training Framework (CTF). Such a framework must combine trai...

The European Union (EU) Directive 2013/55/EC amends Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications. The 2013 amendment allows Member States to decide on a common set of minimum knowledge, skills and competences required to pursue a given profession through a Common Training Framework (CTF). Such a framework must combine trai...

International researchers intensively explore the tradition of criticism in landscape architecture theories and practices from different angles: socio-cultural inquiry, historic prospective and retrospective, heritage perception and cognition, modern public engagement. Over the past two years, Vilnius City has witnessed a breakthrough in the public...

the question of quality of modified landscape is critical for the client and the users and depends on the quality of projects. After theoretical and empirical research, the paper proposes the framework for quality assessment criteria and corresponding indicators for assessing landscape architecture projects. By thorough analysis of the recent inter...

The Old Town of Vilnius City is a valuable site included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. One of the most important tasks is to protect the area from noise, pollution, and vibration caused by transport. Currently, over 30,000 vehicles cross the Old Town core daily, most of which do not have a destination in the Old Town, and drivers only use a sh...

The purpose of the article is to define the material, institutional, and intellectual infrastructure of a region and identify the innovative processes that determine its creation. Our main research hypothesis is that the processes that influence the creation of a region’s infrastructure determine a region’s competitiveness as well. To verify these...

Many big, average and even small towns have been dramatically car-invaded through the past twenty years in Eastern Europe. That resulted in fragmented open spaces and endangered mobility through the streets and blocks of the city. The paper addresses the issue of comfortable access to urban open space by bringing the multidimensional approach that...

In the light of recent environmental and socio-economic challenges that face the modern urban regions, the implication of current needs for education quality has been discussed. Now a further step for practical actions of re-shaping higher education in Europe takes place. The quality of teaching of landscape architects has a direct impact on the qu...

This EULand21 publication provides a well-elaborated framework for developing and updating teaching programmes in landscape architecture. A set of learning-lines for the subject-specific competences of landscape architecture form a detailed and flexible framework that contains a bounty of information for developing modules and courses. It is based...

Sustainable development by emphasizing on satisfying the current needs of the general public without threating their futures, alongside with taking the environment and future generations under consideration, has become one of the prominent issues in different societies. Therefore, identifying and prioritizing the key factors of sustainable architec...

Accessibility of public environment make immense impact on active participation of all citizens in different spheres of public life. Quality of access to urban landscapes and buildings for all citizens gains especial importance in the context of recent demographic trends in the developed countries, as ageing communities, decreasing birth rates and...

We may see modern urbanism as a collection of many successful developments as well as a series of endless mistakes and repeated failures. The paper focuses on the analysis of existing and former urban planning and design patterns in aspect of efficiency of applied methods to achieve higher quality referring to the philosophy and practice of Landsca...

Landscape architect's activities are facing complex socioeconomic and environmental challenges such as suburban sprawl, depopulating city centres, vast urban landscapes and others. In search for the best solutions, the similarities and differences of solutions in different places allows analysing the particular cases in more regional and even inter...

Background Multiple channels of sustainable urban development could be managed in the process of an inter-disciplinary cooperation and creative involvement of all stakeholders. The paper aims to verify how the specific methods of virtual reality simulation could be used as an effective tool for setting an efficient participation platform between th...

Trends of environmental, social and economic development in the modern world are driving forward the theory and practice of Green Building with important role for architecture and architects. The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the Green Building doctrine and its historic background based on a review of main ideas of Green Architecture...

Based on the basic theoretical principles and the existing practices of community involvement into planning, the article explores the ways of improving urban landscapes of residential territories, especially in the process of housing renovation. Researchers of different countries increasingly focus their attention on adaptability of landscape in th...

An interest in doctoral studies reflects the overall status of the scientist in the country in general and the role of science in the architect profession in particular. The article analyses the basic channels of how the students of architecture search for and find the ways to transfer themselves from the study area into an academic research enviro...

Since the 19th century, a Japanese garden as a cultural phenomenon with a millennium-old history of religion and philosophy-based landscaping art has been exported to different regions of the globe and built in countries far from the land of its origin. The article focuses on two aspects of Japanese gardens: the basic and more specific principles o...

The paper focuses on the actual state of architecture and planning practices in Lithuania and Latvia stating the common features and differences as well as identifying a number of challenges and possible solutions and their impacts on academic research carried out by junior fellows of the universities. The transition from a planned socialist econom...

Improving public spaces is a strategy of great importance for the successful future of our cities and their communities. The potential of places for citizen communication is often underestimated as stimulus for growth and development of urban communities and therefore public spaces are underused. The article analyses socioeconomic and psychological...

The article analyses decade-long experience of papers and presentations at the conference of junior researchers „K.Seselgis Readings“ in a period from 1999 to 2009. The importance of the main guiding principles of sustainable development in architecture and urban design is underlined. Presented in prominent documents of the European Union as Europe...

The article "Identification of Local Territorial Communities in Urban Structure of Vilnius City" presents the analysis of the general principles of identification of local territorial communities in the urban structure of modern cities and presents a methodology for including the public initiative as a strong factor of urban planning. International...

Modern studies and research in the field of architecture are developed on the basis of strengthening international cooperation on different geopolitical spaces. Strategies of developing landscape architecture as well as research and educational services are presented in European Landscape Convention. For this reason this document is reviewed in the...

For centuries health institutions have been the most traditional community-oriented providers of public services. The paper focuses on the initial steps of urban development of health facilities in Vilnius city. Historic health institutions are analysed as a specific prototype of what is understood today as a “hospital”. In the paper special attent...

Santrauka Tyrime pateikiamas darnios miesto ir priemies?io rekreacijos tinklo pl?tros modelis. Darni rekreacija suprantama kaip priemoni? visuma, leid?ianti suaktyvinti p?s?i?j?, dviratinink? ir vandens keliautoj? jud?jim? mieste laisvalaikio poilsio tikslu, taip pat apriboti neb?tinus automobili? srautus, skirtus susisiekti tarp miesto centro, gyv...

The investigation presents a method for developing sustainable recreation and tourism in urban and suburban areas. For this reason interaction between urban and the surrounding spaces of Vilnius city has been analysed. Sustainable recreation is considered as a complex of measures to control unlimited expansion of motor traffic into residential and...

The paper presents an experimental investigation for analysing and evaluating the level of accessibility in urban environment and public buildings. An original methodology was created with involvement of people with disabilities into the study and evaluation process. The members of a testing group personally examined and evaluated the level of acce...

The paper presents research executed in the field of optimization of urban planning model for the health care (HC) network. Based on an analysis of territorial, spatial and comparative data, visions for future development of the HC system are drafted for Vilnius county and Vilnius city. The analysis reveals that the present location and functional...