Daily Archives: October 25, 2017

Holiday Wreaths 2017 – It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

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We are excited to announce the kick off of our 2017 Holiday Wreath sale. Order forms are in the mail to customers who have purchased from us, or who put their names on our wreath mailing list, over the past two seasons, and to our members.  The Online Store is also now active, and you may purchase by clicking HERE. If you prefer, you may print our order form, also found on the website, fill it out, and send with a check made out to The Garden Club of the Back Bay to Francine Crawford, 421 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02115. Or email info@gardenclubbackbay.org and we’ll mail a form to you, or email it as an attachment. You may also leave a message at 617-859-8865 and we’ll follow up. So there is absolutely no reason not to support our neighborhood tree care efforts! In the coming weeks we’ll highlight some designs from past years and share some insights on our process, but if you’d like to get ahead of the game, order now. We’ll confirm delivery or pick up status with you in November – and thank you in advance.

Tuesday, October 31, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Toru Mitani

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Is there any essential difference between the detail design of landscape architecture and of architecture? It is very common to discuss detail design in the architectural realm, as evidenced by a number of research works and publications focusing on the rationality and logics of the wooden structure of traditional Japanese architecture that praise its beauty. On the other hand, it is not so easy to find any discussion of detail designs of the traditional gardens in Japan, because most focus on the semantics and symbolization of their style. For example, the stone formation in the dry garden has been explained from the viewpoint of Buddhist symbolization or sometimes of the spiritual representation, and not from the viewpoint of its functional, structural reason, in other words, as a matter of engineering.

Japanese-based landscape architect Toru Mitani discusses these and other considerations with reference to the concurrent Harvard Graduate School of Design exhibition featuring his ongoing work and collaborative projects with his firm ‘studio on site.’The lecture will take place Tuesday, October 31 from 6:30 – 8:30 in Gund Hall Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge. Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.