Lecture Series

Fall 2006 Lectures: "Particular Landscapes"

The lecture series is held on Mondays from 7:00 to 8:30 pm at 112 Wurster Hall.

Sponsored by the Geraldine Scott History Fund.

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Monday, September 25

Lecture has been moved to Monday, November 20, 2006.

Richard Haag, FASLA
Principal, Richard Haag Associates, Hon. AIA, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington

An Infallible Technique?\

Monday, October 9

Kathryn Moore
Professor, School of Architecture, The UCE Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Immediate Past President of the Landscape Institute, UK

Dealing with the Aesthetics of Place

Having lectured and published extensively design quality, theory and education, Professor Moore’s recent consultancy projects include membership of the team for Martha Schwartz Inc, Living Landmarks Big Lottery Fund project, for Birmingham City Council and creating an urban vision for the Black Country with Lovejoys, Birmingham. She is currently writing a book “Demystifying the Art of Design”, partly funded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Kathryn Moore is a trustee for CBAT, the arts regeneration agency in Cardiff, member of the steering committee for the international City Park Design Competition, Birmingham City Council, the design panel for a 6,500 home new town development in Devon and a Council of Europe judge for the design of a town square in St Petersburg.

Monday, October 23

Douglas P. Reed, FASLA
Principal, Reed Hilderbrand

Finding the Specific

Douglas Reed founded his practice in 1993 and has built a reputation for excellence in design with award-winning projects throughout the United States and abroad. A graduate of Louisiana State University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he has taught at the University of Virginia, Louisiana State University, and elsewhere and has lectured widely. The work of Reed Hilderbrand has appeared in a number of publications and has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including the prestigious ASLA President’s Award of Excellence for the Therapeutic Garden at the Institute for Child and Adolescent Development in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Work at Stan Hywet Hall in Akron, Ohio was honored with the Trustees Emeritus Award for Excellence in the Stewardship of Historic Sites from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Reed Hilderbrand is founded on the belief that the designed landscape is among the most potent and durable instruments of cultural expression. They hold that life offers its most ennobling experiences when we deepen our connection with our surroundings. A place’s history and particular character--its shape, soil, moisture, vegetation--are what motivates meaningful form in their projects. Reed Hilderbrand merges a wealth of sources with a distillation of intent to achieve an appropriate fit with client needs and the site.

Monday, October 30

Robert Royston, FASLA
Principal Emeritus – Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey

Looking Backward, Looking Forward

Robert Royston began his career in the offices of Thomas Church while he was a student in the landscape architecture program at the University of California, Berkeley. Upon returning from military service in 1946, he joined with Garrett Eckbo and Ed Williams in the professional partnership of Eckbo Royston and Williams. The practice eventually developed into Royston, Hanamoto, Alley and Abey, which is still active after forty-eight years. He has had a lifetime association with the University which includes teaching in the landscape program from 1947-1951 and visiting to lecture and provide critique throughout the years. Royston’s career has spanned six decades and includes a wide range of projects in the United States, Venezuela, Chile, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, and Malaysia. He has received numerous design awards, including the AIA Medal and the ASLA Presidents Medal. His scope of his design work includes private gardens, urban plazas, office parks, regional land-use plans, zoos, cemeteries, new towns, and parks of all types.

Monday, November 13

Lewis MacAdams
Chairman of the Board, Friends of the Los Angeles River

Nature and Culture along the Los Angeles River

Lewis MacAdams is a poet, the author of a dozen books of poems--most recently, "The River, Books 1, 2, & 3"--and twice World Heavyweight Poetry Champion. "Dear Oxygen" a CD with words by MacAdams and music by the The Dark Bob will be out this Fall. Lewis MacAdams has directed many documentary films, including "What Happened To Kerouac?" "Eric Bogosian's FunHouse" and "The Battle of The Bards." His most recent book of cultural history is "Birth of The Cool," a history of the idea of cool for The Free Press. Mr. MacAdams is currently deep into a biography of Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone, for Knopf. Twenty years ago he started Friends of the Los Angeles River as a forty year art work to bring the Los Angeles River back to life. “Nature and Culture along the Los Angeles River" is a report on what Lewis MacAdams has thought and done. In 2001, he received the ASLA “Public Stewardship Award.” A profile of Lewis MacAdams appeared in the Jan. 26, 2004 issue of the New Yorker magazine. He is currently working with the engineering firm CH2MHill on the proposed Los Angeles River Revitalization Plan.

Monday, November 20

Richard Haag, FASLA
Principal, Richard Haag Associates, Hon. AIA, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington

An Infallible Technique?

Richard Haag's sensitivity to the natural environment and re-use of existing structures is expressed in 500 built projects: Skilled in innovative and collaborative design and community involvement. He was educated at University of Illinois, University of California Berkeley (B.L.A.), and Harvard Graduate School of Design (M.L.A.), awarded a Fulbright in Japan for two years and was Resident at the American Academy in Rome. Harvard honored him with a symposium and exhibition Exploring the Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag (Spring 1996) and the publication: Richard Haag Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park. He is the only person to twice receive the American Society of Landscape Architects Presidents Award for Design Excellence: Gas Works Park, Seattle and The Sequence of Gardens at Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island. He founded the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington. Haag is a national/international lecturer and juror and received the ASLA Medal 2003, a lifetime achievement award and the highest honor given to a Landscape Architect by his peers.