Daily Archives: October 31, 2013


Thursday, November 14, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Airport Landscape Keynote Lecture

Adriaan Geuze is founder and principal of West 8, an international urban design and landscape architecture practice whose designs are informed by contemporary culture, urban identity, architecture, public space, and engineering. West 8 has done landscape projects for Schiphol Airport (below) since 1992 and has won international design competitions for the Toronto Waterfront (2006), Governors Island in New York (2007), Playa de Palma in Mallorca (2008), and the master plan for Yongsan Park, Seoul (2012). Among his many awards, Geuze was the 2002 recipient of the Veronica Rudge Green Prize for Urban Design. He was curator of the 2005 International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam. In 2012 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Dutch government. Mr. Geuze will give the Airport Landscape Keynote Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street in Cambridge, on Thursday, November 14 beginning at 6:30 pm. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information email events@gsd.harvard.edu.

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Sunday, November 10, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Understanding Botanical & Horticultural Names

In this Arnold Arboretum and New England Wild Flower Society workshop on plant nomenclature, to be held at Garden in the Woods in Framingham on Sunday, November 10 from 1 – 4, students will have the opportunity to sort out the confusion associated with plant names. We will discuss common names, binomial scientific names, and the history of nomenclature since Linnaeus. The current rules of nomenclature will be reviewed, and we’ll see why and how plant names sometimes change.  The instructor is Judith Sumner, PhD, Botanist and author of American Household Botany: A History of Useful Plants 1620 – 1900. Fee for members of the sponsoring organizations is $46, nonmembers $54.  Register at www.arboretum.harvard.edu or at www.newfs.org.

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