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  • Tuesday, October 27, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Everett L. Fly

    The Harvard Graduate School of Design is pleased to present a series of talks and webinars broadcast to our audiences via Zoom. This October 27 Frederick Law Olmsted lecture will be ONLINE ONLY. For security reasons, virtual attendees must register. Scroll down to find complete instructions for how to register.

    Everett L. Fly, MLA ’77, native of San Antonio, Texas, resides in the city with his wife Rosalinda. An honors graduate of the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, he is the first African American graduate of Harvard University’s Department of Landscape Architecture. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

    Fly’s forty year practice as a licensed landscape architect and architect includes national multidisciplinary consultations for the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

    He served on the State of Texas National Register Board of Review and City of San Antonio Historic and Design Review Commission. He chaired the board of Humanities Texas from 1993 to 1994.

    Fly served appointments by President Bill Clinton to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities from 1994 to 2001. President Barack Obama awarded him one of ten 2014 National Humanities Medals for his body of work preserving the integrity of African-American places and landmarks.

    Recent awards include the 2018 San Antonio Power of Preservation Foundation “Champion of Preservation Award” and the 2020 Conservation Society of San Antonio “Texas Preservation Hero Award”.

    He co-founded the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum.

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    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. Live captioning will be provided during this event. After the event has ended, a transcript will be available upon request.

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

    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.