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Mondays 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Geraldine Knight Scott History Fund Monday, February 12, 2007 Marc Treib Noguchi’s Landscape: The Garden as Sculpture Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, a practicing graphic designer, and an active author. He has written or edited numerous books and publications on landscape architecture, graphic design, modern and historical architecture, in geographic areas ranging from Japan to Scandinavia. His most recent books are Settings and Stray Paths: Writings on Gardens and Landscape and The Donnell and Eckbo Gardens: Modern California Masterworks. Monday, March 5, 2007 Rainer Schmidt Urban – Open – Green – Space With over twenty years of professional work experience as a landscape designer, Professor Rainer Schmidt has one of the largest and most well-known offices in Germany. The aim of the office is to find ways of dealing with problems of our time. The language of landscape architecture in the 21st century must offer a realistic reflection of the way people interact with each other and with nature. The office is striving to achieve a balance between design, function, emotion and conservation. At the same time, Schmidt has been a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. Monday, March 19, 2007 Michael Van Valkenburgh Recent Landscape Design Projects Focusing on Designing and the Growing of Design Ideas Michael Van Valkenburgh is the lead principal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, a firm of 50 employees. Michael’s office does projects as large as the $200 million Brooklyn Bridge Park and gardens under $100,000. Plants, materials, and making joyful spaces roll Michael’s socks down. Monday, April 2, 2007 Randy Hester Design for Ecological Democracy Randy Hester applies landscape architecture to some of the truly wicked problems of our time. He uses design to encourage informed democracy and shape the political landscape. Community—in the A. Leopold and M.L. King senses—guides his work. He uses and teaches an original and unique design approach crafted from the civil rights movement and his childhood as a farm boy. Monday, April 9, 2007 Carl Steinitz Landscape Planning: a History of Influential Ideas Monday, April 23, 2007 Gary Strang Landscape: The New Architecture Gary Strang has proposed that “in the future, buildings will dissolve into the landscape and nature will be constructed.” He is the founder of GLS, an eight-person, multi-disciplinary office in San Francisco whose mission is to integrate landscape with infrastructure and urban architecture. GLS has received ASLA National Honor Awards for the recently completed Units 1 & 2 Residence Halls at UC Berkeley and the Beth Israel Chapel and Cemetery in Houston. |
