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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. Sponsored by: Monday, February 4, 2008 Kenneth Helphand Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime Kenneth I. Helphand is a graduate of Brandeis University and Harvard's GSD. He has taught courses in landscape history, theory, and design at the University of Oregon since 1974 and is the recipient of distinguished teaching awards from the University of Oregon and the CELA. Kenneth served as editor of Landscape Journal from 1994-2002 and is the author of many award-winning books. He is a recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal, a Graham Foundation Grant, a Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and an Honorary Member of the Israel Association of Landscape Architects. Monday, February 25, 2008 Suburbia Interrupted: Levittown, Pennsylvania Dianne Harris is Professor of Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Art History, and History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches courses in landscape history. Her publications include the co-edited volume Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and she is the author of The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape, and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), which won the Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award from the Society of Architectural Historians in 2006. She is also the author of Maybeck’s Landscapes: Drawing in Nature (William Stout Publisher, 2005). In addition to a co-edited volume (with D. Fairchild Ruggles) entitled Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), Professor Harris served as guest-editor for a special issue of Landscape Journal devoted to the topic of “Race and Space,” that appeared in May of 2007. She is currently writing a book that focuses on ordinary postwar houses and gardens in the United States between 1945-60, and she is serving as editor for a multidisciplinary volume on the Pennsylvania Levittown that will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Professor Harris is editor for the University of Pittsburgh Press’s new book series that focuses on politics, social justice, and histories of the built environment. She currently serves as the Second Vice-President for the Society of Architectural Historians, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Iris Foundation Award for outstanding scholarly contributions in the history of art, decorative arts, and cultural history. Monday, March 3, 2008 Ethan Carr Modernism and the National Parks: MISSION 66 Ethan Carr is a landscape historian and preservationist specializing in the public landscapes of the United States. He is the author of Wilderness by Design (1998, University of Nebraska Press) and Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma (2007, Library of American Landscape History with University of Massachusetts Press). Carr formerly served as the New York City park historian and as a National Park Service landscape architect. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, and is editing the eighth volume of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmstead. Monday, April 7, 2008 Nancy Leszczynski Edith Wharton and the Grand Tour Nancy Leszczynski taught planting design at Berkeley before moving to Italy in 1995 where she lives and continues to teach landscape history courses in Studies Abroad programs to students from NYU, Florida State and several other U.S. universities. In 1999, she published the book Planting the Landscape and is presently working on another, Gardens of the Casa Colonica. She has lectured widely on Italian Garden design and has investigated the influence of Edith Wharton and the "Grand Tour" on the landscape designs of Wharton's niece, Beatrix Farrand. Monday, April 28, 2008 Ken Smith big little skip the middle "Too much design occurs in the nebulous middle without strong concepts and without attention to detail. From my perspective, perfection is achieved when big concepts and small details find complete alignment," states Smith who has been selected as Master Designer of the Orange County Great Park.The 1,347-acre plot will be a major metropolitan park and the focal point of the redevelopment of the larger 4,700-acre former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro located in Irvine, California and designated for closure more than a decade ago. The Great Park will include extensive natural areas in addition to recreational and cultural uses. Ken also was the designer of the rooftop of New York's MOMA. |
