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The Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Lecture Series took place Monday evenings from 7–8:30 p.m. in 112 Wurster Hall (*unless otherwise noted). Note: The October 24 lecture by Chris Grampp has been moved to November 17.
Tom Leader Cause and Effect We look for and try to engage “causes” in our work. We find this makes the “effects” more relevant and resonant. We try hard to draw from the lives we actually have rather than the ones we wish we had. We are trying to do this on college campuses, public parks, private gardens, and installations in the US and abroad. Bill Wenk, FASLA Improvised Landscapes: Nature, Community, Function Wenk Associates is a Denver-based landscape architecture firm whose practice has focused on the design of the public realm. The firm's best work has been those projects that transform degraded, often undervalued, landscapes into vibrant public or natural realms. Projects that serve to clean polluted stormwater, reuse derelict structures and construction rubble, and rebuild community will be presented. Chris Grampp From Yard To Garden: The Domestication of America’s Home Grounds Chris Grampp has taught landscape design at Merritt College for the past 22 years and has been a licensed landscape architect for the past 24 years with experience in residential, public, and commercial projects. He has published articles about the social meanings of domestic gardens in Landscape Magazine, and in The Meanings of Gardens (Francis and Hester), and lectured on the topic at the Environmental Design Research Association, The Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, the C. G. Jung Institute and the Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco, and at the University of California at Berkeley and Davis. He latest book, on which this lecture is based is entitled From Yard To Garden: The Domestication of America’s Home Grounds. Jane Amidon Big Nature Jane Amidon is the founding principal of Amidon design communication, a design research and communications practice examining the intersection of large scale urban and natural systems. Recent projects include a collaborative, award-winning proposal for a brownfield redevelopment in Columbus, Ohio, and the site design for a business incubator located adjacent to a wet forest zone. She is the series editor for Source Books in Landscape Architecture. She wrote Moving Horizon: The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners, Radical Landscapes and Dan Kiley: America’s Master Landscape Architect. Julie Bargmann No Sissy Landscapes Julie Bargmann, founding principal of D.I.R.T. studio, is internationally recognized as an innovative designer in building regenerative landscapes and with interdisciplinary design education. Her work has received national design awards from both the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects, as well as the Urban Land Institute and the Smithsonian Institute Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, among others. In 2000, she was featured in TIME Magazine’s “Innovators: The TIME 100 of the Future”, and was chosen as one of “the I.D. Forty: Socially Conscious Design” in 2001 by I.D. Magazine. Monday, March 2, 2009 Anne Whiston Spirn Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field Photography for Anne Whiston Spirn is a way to test ideas. Places are primary sources, and photographs and field journals with written and drawn notes are primary data. Her new book, Daring to Look, presents unpublished texts and photographs by the great photographer Dorothea Lange, who employed images and words, together, not merely to record people and landscapes, but also to discover and to explore ideas. “No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually,” Dorothea Lange said at the end of her life. “I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.” Copies of Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field and The Language of Landscape will be available for purchase at the event. Kevin Conger LOCALS: A Regional Practice Engages Communities in Conceptually-based Projects Kevin Conger is one of three founding partners of CMG Landscape Architecture, along with Willett Moss and Chris Guillard. The projects include the redevelopment plans for several military bases such as Treasure Island, Hunters Point and Concord Naval Weapons Station, University and schools, parks, and urban infill residential development. Kevin has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, UC Berkeley and the Boston Architectural College. Prior to founding CMG Kevin worked with the firms of Hargreaves Associates as project manager on Crissy Field Park in San Francisco’s Presidio, and the master plan of the site for the Sydney 2000 Olympics; and with Martha Schwartz, Inc. on unique projects including residential design, urban public plazas, and land remediation. Paul Groth Ideas along the Road: Official and Vernacular as Lenses of Analysis Paul’s research focuses on the ways in which social groups have used space (streets, fields, yards, buildings, and regions) to articulate social relations, to derive cultural meaning, and to create social change. This lecture explores the usefulness for designers of two broad, oppositional categories — official and vernacular — that J. B. Jackson used to sum up his lifetime of study of the American scene. |
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