Daily Archives: March 17, 2019

Monday, April 1, 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm – Kiley Fellow Lecture: Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich

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The Harvard School of Graduate Design is pleased to announce a free public lecture, the Kiley Fellow Lecture, on Monday, April 1 at 12 noon at 48 Quincy Street in Cambridge, featuring Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich.

Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich is a Lecturer of Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Design. She teaches in the Master of Landscape Architecture core studio sequence, the Ecology, Technology and Techniques sequence as well as design research seminars. Her research currently focuses on the relation between landscape ecology and the culture of food production in Northern Spain and Southern France.

Montserrat is a licensed Spanish Architect, Urban designer, and founder of TBR Architects, an award winning office focusing on the challenges and opportunities of designing public space. She was the 2017-2018 Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow in Landscape Architecture at the GSD. Prior to joining the GSD, she was faculty at the University of Virginia where she taught urban design, core sequence, and research studios as well as research seminars in the Department of Landscape Architecture. She holds a Master in Architecture from the Barcelona Architecture School at Polytechnic University of Catalonia where she also taught in the urban design department.

Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.

 

Thursday, April 4, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Tory Burch Esplanade Association Benefit

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We hope you will join The Esplanade Association on April 4 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm for an evening celebrating the Esplanade. This closed-door event at Tory Burch in Copley Place is hosted by Jessica Crimmins, an Esplanade Association Board Member. The evening will feature drinks, light bites, and exclusive in-store opportunities. 20% of the event’s proceeds will benefit the Esplanade Association. To attend, please RSVP to skazi@toryburch.com.

National Garden Bureau

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“Inspire. Connect. Grow.” National Garden Bureau is a non-profit organization that exists to educate, inspire, and motivate people to increase the use of plants in homes, gardens, and workplaces by being the marketing arm of the gardening industry. Members are experts in the field of horticulture and the organization’s information comes directly from these sources. The inspiration of James H. Burdett, the National Garden Bureau was born in 1920 in the wake of World War I. He perceived the increasing need of suburbanites for basic instruction in backyard gardening. Because of his unique background as both a former newspaper journalist and an advertising manager of a seed company, he appreciated the role of the media in public education. He pioneered the idea of enlisting horticultural writers and broadcasters in the noble effort of mass education to create a population of gardeners. In the process, he improved the lives of citizens.

The Bureau came of age during World War II when the government encouraged homeowners to grow Victory Gardens. By means of annual posters promoting “Beauty and Abundance in Your Garden” and other materials, the Bureau promoted seeds and gardening on the home front. Then, the postwar years saw an emphasis on community beautification and the Bureau responded with a film, brochures, programs, and information sheets to help gardening communicators further this cause among the public. Incorporation as a not-for-profit organization soon followed.

Each year the NGB chooses categories of plants to highlight and 2019 is the Year of the Snapdragon, the Year of the Dahlia, the Year of the Pumpkin, and the Year of the Salvia nemorosa.  To learn more about the National Garden Bureau visit http://ngb.org.

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