Topiaries, anyone?
The University of Rhode Island’s annual Landscape Architecture Lecture Series starts this month with a talk by landscape architect Matthew Cunningham.
Cunningham, of MCLD in Stoneham, Mass., will talk about how
“Gardens Evolve’’ on Thursday Sept. 22.
That talk and the others will all begin at 7 p.m. in Room 105 of
the Richard E. Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences, 140 Flagg
Road, on the Kingston campus. The talks are free and open to the public.
“We have a very interesting group coming this year, with most
talking about the design challenges we face in a time of climate change,’’ says
William A. Green, a professor of Landscape Architecture at URI. “Topics will be
related to coastal conditions, urbanization, recreation, protecting cultural
resources, landscape humanism equity and diversity.’’
The other talks are:
Oct. 6, “Global Design: The Future of Landscape Architecture’’
by Kona Gray, principal of EDSA, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Oct. 27, “Landscape Architects on the Leading Edge of Urbanism’’
by Mark Johnson, president, Civitas, of Denver, Colo.
Nov. 17, “Landscape Humanism in Practice’’ by Gina Ford,
principal, Sasaki Associates of Watertown, Mass.
Dec. 1, “Growing in the Profession’’ by Lara Ajemian, a 2007
graduate of URI and an associate with LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architects in
Boston, and Ken McClure, a 2008 graduate of URI and an associate with Halvorson
Design Group, also in Boston.
March 2, “Strategies for Future Shores: An Honest Assessment of
the Unthinkable’’ by Kristina Hill, associate professor of landscape
architecture and environmental planning at the University of California,
Berkeley.
March 23, Tara Vincenta, a principal with Artemis in Bridgeport,
Conn.
April 6, “Interdisciplinary Practice: The Good, The Bad, and the
Awesome’’ by Cheri Ruane, of Spurr Design Group in Boston, Mass.
April 20, “Why Not Cultural Systems’’ by Charles Birnbaum,
president and chief executive officer of The Cultural Landscape Foundation in
Washington D.C.
The series is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences,
the Gaetano and Pasqualine Faella Memorial Endowment; and the Rhode Island
chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Hill’s lecture is
co-sponsored by Rhode Island Sea Grant. Birnbaum’s lecture is co-sponsored by
Victor Stanley.
For more information about the series, contact the URI
Department of Landscape Architecture at 401-874-2983 or Professor Green atwagre@uri.edu