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  • Thursday, March 4, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Julie Bargmann: Modesty, Online

    Toxic Beauty.  Troubled Allure. Fallow Fairness.  Not Vacant, Open. Not Abandoned, Changing.

    D.I.R.T. cultivates a perverse attraction and an unapologetic approach to wrecked landscapes.

    Not Restorative, Regenerative.

    The work holds back.  It doesn’t make everything perfectly okay.  The work listens. It hears them above trying to make sense, below the ground producing heritage.  The work hurts.  It flips preconceptions of stuck minds.  The work is messy.  It’s all about finding.  The work emerges.

    It doesn’t descend.  The work leaves.  It lets you in.

    Modesty is a Manifesto calling for restraint when we don’t know what’s next.

    Julie Bargmann, the Harvard Graduate School of Design sponsored speaker at this March 4 online event at 7:30 pm Eastern, is internationally recognized as an innovative designer in building regenerative landscapes. She founded D.I.R.T. studio in 1992 to research, design and build projects with passion and rigor. Born and raised in New Jersey, where from an early age the belching factories and monumental landfills attracted her, Julie is a straight-talker, not afraid to provoke in order to tease out what matters most about places, especially the post-industrial. Her background in sculpture influences the use of simple form that emerges from sites’ existing, unearthed and unlikely material for design. Julie’s frank, hands-on design approach informs her role as Professor at the University of Virginia, where she leads investigations with students into derelict terrain, imagining renewed sites of cultural and ecological production.

    Julie earned a fine arts degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Master of Landscape Architecture degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She received the American Academy in Rome Fellowship and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Award. D.I.R.T. projects have gained several Honor Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and Detroit’s Core City Park garnered the October 2020 cover story in Landscape Architecture.

    Register to attend the lecture here. Once you have registered, you will be provided with a link to join the lecture via Zoom. This link will also be emailed to you.

    The event will also be live streamed to the GSD’s YouTube page. Only viewers who are attending the lecture via Zoom will be able to submit questions for the Q+A. If you would like to submit questions for the speakers in advance of the event, please click here. Live captioning will be provided during this event. A transcript will be available roughly two weeks after the event, upon request.

  • Through November 15 – Natural and Man-made Landscapes: Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace

    Painted over the last twenty years, watercolors by Thomas Loring are on view through November 15 at the Shattuck Visitor Center, 125 The Fenway. They are drawn from Frederick Law Olmsted’s parks and reflect the natural and man-made elements of the landscape that Olmsted created over 150 years ago with his colleagues: John C. Olmsted, H.H. Richardson, and Richardson’s successors, Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. This collaboration was instrumental in realizing his far-reaching vision for the parks.

    Olmsted’s parks are a remarkable orchestration of organic forms in harmony with built structures. The design of the landscape is highlighted by contrasts of earth and water, light and dark, movement and repose. One’s eye is drawn to the sinuous forms, reflections in water and arrays of color at the interface of the natural and man-made. These watercolors were inspired by these splendid parks, and the artist is delighted to have the opportunity to show them at the Shattuck Visitor Center.

    Thomas Loring was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Harvard University where he developed a lifelong interest in art and drawing. After beginning a course of study at the Boston Architectural Center, he went on to Carnegie Mellon University where he received a Master of Architecture degree. He started his career with Woollen Associates Architects in Cincinnati and Indianapolis before joining ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, becoming a Principal at ARC, specializing in educational and scientific buildings. Painting in watercolor and drawing by hand has been complementary to his work in architecture for more than thirty years. He paints on site and in a studio in Boston and while traveling. For complete schedule of exhibit hours visit http://www.emeraldnecklace.org/about-us/shattuck-visitor-center/current-exhibit/