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Tag: Landscape Architecture

  • Wednesday, November 6, 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm – Kiley Fellow Lecture: Paola Sturla

    Paola Sturla is a registered Architetto and Paesaggista in Italy, a Ph.D. candidate in Urban Planning, Design, and Policy at Politecnico di Milano, and the 2018-19 Daniel Urban Kiley teaching fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture (Harvard GSD 2011, with distinction), as well as a Master of Architecture (PoliMi 2007). She will speak on November 6 at noon at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Gund Hall – the lecture is free and open to the public.

    Her current research aims to critically investigate how AI-based tools and computer simulations could support landscape architecture in the context of infrastructure planning, taking advantage of the user’s experience as a design variable. The research asks if these tools can integrate cognition among the engineering-based design parameters, introducing a relational approach borrowed from interaction design and complexity science.

    Before starting her Ph.D., Paola’s interests spanned across academia and practice. She has been a landscape design discipline leader at One-Works S.p.A., where she worked on Qatar Railways’ Doha Metro Red Line North Underground project. This experience enabled her to reflect on the role of landscape design in the framework of an international, large-scale and interdisciplinary socio-technical infrastructure project. Prior to that, she had been collaborating with the Beijing based firm BAM Ballistic Architecture Machine.

    At the same time, Paola has been teaching landscape design in the first year Master of Architecture studio at Politecnico di Milano with Cino Zucchi and Matilde Cassani.

    Paola is also an alumna of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community (Rome Hub). Together with some fellow Shapers, she started Powering Education ONLUS, a not for profit initiative that developed the award-winning Powering Impact research project sponsored by the Coca-Cola Company, Enel Foundation, and Enel Green Power.

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

  • Friday, November 15 – Monday, November 18 – ASLA SAN2019 Conference on Landscape Architecture

    The 2019 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture will offer more than 120 education opportunities, allowing attendees to fulfill their professional development requirements in four days, November 15 – 18 in San Diego, California. There will be ecological restoration sessions such as Raising Resiliency: From Lagoon Restoration to Environmental Stewardship at San Elijo Lagoon, Balboa Park: Past, Present, and Future, Tijuana: The Past, Present and Future of Design in a Border City, and so many more that it will take a while to scroll through the entire schedule at www.aslaconference.com. There will also be an Expo where hundreds of new products, services, technology applications, and design solutions. Registration is now open.

  • Wednesday, September 12 – Saturday, November 17 – The Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin

    The Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin, a traveling photographic exhibition about the life and work of landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009), will be on view in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Boston Architectural College, 320 Newbury Street, Boston, from September 12 through November 17, 2018. Created in 2016 during the centennial anniversary of Halprin’s birth, The Cultural Landscape Foundation exhibition features 56 newly commissioned photographs by leading landscape photographers of dozens of Halprin’s major works, including recently rediscovered residential projects created early in his career in the 1950s; the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.; capstone projects such as the Yosemite Falls approach and Stern Grove in San Francisco; the Los Angeles Open Space Network; and Plaza Las Fuentes in Pasadena.

    Halprin was, without doubt, among the foremost landscape architects of the twentieth century. His prolific career spanned more than six decades, with highlights that also include Freeway Park (in Seattle, Washington), and the Portland Open Space Sequence (in Portland, Oregon). His firm was a seedbed for many talented designers now celebrated in their own right, and the innovative techniques he pioneered changed the field forever. While the traveling exhibition will honor Halprin and his career, it will also call attention to the need for the informed and effective stewardship of his irreplaceable legacy. Like much of the work of prominent landscape architects in the post-War period, many of Halprin’s designs are now in a diminished state, while some face an uncertain future.

    For more information, and to view the online exhibition, visit https://tclf.org/landscape-architecture-lawrence-halprin-boston

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  • Wednesday, April 4, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Revealing a Sense of Place

    Seasonal New England is rich in its unique and dynamic ecological patterns. Join Grow Native Massachusetts on Wednesday, April 4 at 7 pm at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, as Matthew Cunningham explores how his observations of these natural systems have influenced his firm’s creation of contextual and native plant-centric projects that grasp the rhythms of everyday life. He will show us a variety of residential landscapes, large and small, that embrace our regional flora, utilize ecologically sustainable principles, and that build connections between interior and exterior spaces to strengthen our relationship with nature. Come be inspired by these beautiful, vibrant landscapes that enhance life for both their human and their wild residents.

    Matthew Cunningham is a rising star in the world of landscape architecture. He is passionate about the landscapes of New England and is committed to excellent design with ecologically sustainable principles. A graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he worked at the renowned firm Reed Hilderbrand Associates before starting his own practice. Matthew was named “International Designer of the Year” by the APLD in 2017.  Image below from Turf Magazine.

    This lecture if free, and co-sponsored by the Boston Society of Landscape Architects. For more information visit http://www.grownativemass.org/programs/eveningswithexperts

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  • Thursday, November 16, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Landscape Architecture and the ‘New Generic’

    The Harvard Graduate School of Design will present a free lecture on Thursday, November 16 from 6:30 – 8:30 in the Gund Hall Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street in Cambridge, on Landscape Architecture and the ‘New Generic’.

    Michael Jakob teaches History and Theory of Landscape at hepia, Geneva, and aesthetics of design at HEAD, Geneva. He is a visiting professor at Politecnico di Milano and the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio. He is, at the same time, Professor of Comparative Literature (Chair) at Grenoble University. Jakob’s teaching and research focus on landscape theory, aesthetics, the history of vertigo, contemporary theories of perception and the poetics of architecture. He is the founder and head of COMPAR(A)ISON, an International Journal of Comparative Literature and the chief editor of “di monte in monte”, a series of books on mountain culture (Edizioni Tarara’, Verbania). He produced several documentary films for TV and has a longstanding experience as a radio journalist.

    Michael Jakob published recently: 100 Paysages, Infolio, Gollion 2011; asp Architecture du paysage, Infolio, Gollion 2012; Mirei Shigemori e il nuovo linguaggio del giardino giapponese, Tarara’, Verbania 2012; the swiss touch in landscape architecture, Tarara’, Verbania 2013/ Ifengspace, Tianjing 2015; La poétique du banc, Macula, Paris 2014/ Sulla Panchina, Einaudi, Turin 2014/ The Bench in the Garden, Oro Editions, Bay Area 2017; Cette ville qui nous regarde, b2 éditions, Paris 2015/ Dall’alto della città, Lettera 22, Siracusa 2017.

    Jakob is a curator of international exhibitions and the author of documentary films on landscape (Chiappetti o il paradiso perduto, RAI, 2014, and Capri: a lezione di paesaggio, 2016).

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

  • Tuesdays and Thursdays, May 17 – June 9, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Introduction to Landscape Plants

    The Massachusetts Horticultural Society is now Partnering the Stockbridge School at UMass to offer classes at The Gardens at Elm Bank for UMass credit.

    Introduction to 50 common native and non-native ornamental species in landscape architecture, horticulture and urban forestry in New England. Plant identification from a horticultural perspective covering plant morphology and botany. Horticultural and environmental requirements of each plant will be discussed.

    Class will meet in Wellesley twice a week for four weeks.Tuesdays and Thursdays May 17 – June 9, 6:30 – 8:30 pm.

    Pre-registration required, register now at www.umassulearn.net. $450 for Mass Hort members, $660 for nonmembers. Photo from www.allianceforwaterefficiency.org.

  • Wednesday, November 12, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Topology: On Sensing and Conceiving Landscape

    The invention of landscape has always oscillated between a history of beliefs in nature, with its many representations, and a history of terrain measurements through various techniques of appropriation. In his talk sponsored by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design on Wednesday, November 12, from 6:30 – 8 in the Piper Auditorium of Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street in Cambridge, Christophe Girot will consider the longstanding balance between culture and its instruments for sensing and conceiving a landscape, noting that the particular representation of landscape that we hold true today has roots in the dialogue between ars and techne that has characterized every epoch. The aim of this talk and discussion is to open a window on topology’s shifting point of view with regard to this form of interdependence that will considerably affect our ability to act and perform effectively on landscape’s reality. Girot is chair of Landscape Architecture at the Institute of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zürich.

    For accessibility accommodations please contact the events office two weeks in advance at (617)-496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.  Free and open to the public.

  • Tuesday, October 28, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Olmsted Lecture: On the Theoretical and Practical Development of Landscape Architecture

    The Harvard University Graduate School of Design will present its Olmsted Lecture on Tuesday, October 28, from 6:30 – 8 in the Piper Auditorium of Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street in Cambridge.  The speaker will be Joseph Disponzio, and his topic is On the Theoretical and Practical Development of Landscape Architecture.

    Exploring the transformation of the modeling of land from garden-making to landscape architecture, this lecture by Joseph Disponzio will establish the intellectual origins of landscape architecture in relation to the new garden practices that emerged during the 18th century, and the texts that codified these practices, amid Enlightenment-era changes in the understanding of nature. Disponzio is Preservation Landscape Architect for the City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation, and Director of the Landscape Design program at Columbia University. He has taught at several institutions, published widely on garden history from the 18th century to the present, and is currently writing introductions for an edition of N. Vergnaud’s L’Art de créer les jardins (1835) and a translation of Jean-Marie Morel’s Théorie des jardins (1776).

    For accessibility issues, please contact the events office two weeks in advance at (617)-496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu. Free and open to the public.

  • Tuesdays, February 4 – March 18, 5:45 pm – 7:45 pm – Residential Landscape Design

    Tuesdays, February 4 – March 18, 5:45 pm – 7:45 pm – Residential Landscape Design

    In this multi-session New England Wild Flower Society and Cambridge Center for Adult Education course appropriate for beginners, learn different aspects of the landscape design process, with special emphasis on the use of native plants in the residential landscape. Workshop sessions focus on design methods involving site analysis techniques and schematic design tools. Consulting with the instructor, work on a project of your own choosing. Interspersed with design work are lectures on plants and habitats, including information on plant choice and placement in the landscape. A list of required materials will be discussed at the first class. Classes begin on February 4, from 5:45 – 7:45, and are taught by Karen Sebastian, principal, Karen Sebastian LLC Landscape Architecture. Classes will take place at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education on Brattle Street in Cambridge, and the fee is $209 for members of the sponsoring organization(s), or $245 for nonmembers. You may register at www.newfs.org/learn/catalog/hor4002.  Image of one of Ms. Sebastian’s landscapes from www.bostondesignguide.com.

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  • Saturday, May 18 – Sunday, May 19, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm – What’s Out There Weekend: Philadelphia

    The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s What’s Out There Weekend, scheduled for May 18 and 19, features free, expert-led tours at more than two-dozen significant examples of Philadelphia’s landscape architecture, including hidden gems in Fairmount Park (below,)  the Beaux Arts grounds of the Rodin Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Colonial Revival design near Independence Hall, the groundbreaking Modernist expressions of Society Hill, and the Postmodernist plazas of Venturi Scott Brown. The tours reveal the back story about city shaping, landscape architecture and the design history of significant landscapes all over the city. Many are places people pass daily, but do we know their background stories?

    What’s Out There Weekend dovetails with the Web-based What’s Out There, the nation’s most comprehensive searchable database of historic designed landscapes. The database offers a broad and interconnected way to discover the breadth of America’s historic designed landscapes, while What’s Out There Weekend gives people the opportunity to experience the landscapes they might see every day in a new way.  Registration is available on line at www.tclf.org.

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