Landscape
Architecture Lecture Series continues April 19 at URI
The
University of Rhode Island’s Landscape Architecture Lecture Series continues
with a talk Thursday, April 19 by renowned Mexican landscape architect Mario
Schjetnan.
Born in Mexico City, Schjetnan is
considered one of the foremost landscape architects today whose work through
his firm, Grupo de Diseno Urbaño, has elevated the stature of Mexican landscape
architecture.
“World Trends and Landscape
Architecture” will start at 7 p.m. in Room 105A of the Richard E. Beaupre Center
for Chemical and Forensic Sciences, 140 Flagg Road, on the Kingston campus. The
talk is free and open to the public. Schjetnan will visit with faculty and
students April 19 and 20.
Schjetnan’s projects in Mexico and other cities throughout the world include urban parks, ecological parks, cultural and archaeological museums, linear river walks, and coastal and housing developments. They are large and striking and often related directly to the culture of Mexico.
His work has received numerous awards
from the American Society of Landscape Architects, Mexican Society of
Architects and Landscape Architects, the U.S. National Park Service, the Union
of International Architects, and the International Federation of Landscape
Architects.
Schjetnan received the Sir Geoffrey
Jellicoe Award 2015 by the International Federation of Landscape Architects,
the highest award of landscape architecture worldwide. He is the first Latin
American to receive this recognition.
His visit is co-sponsored by the URI
Office of the Provost, University Libraries, the College of Arts and Sciences,
the College of Business, the Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Design,
Bartlett Tree Experts, the Rhode Island Chapter of the American Society of
Landscape Architects, and the Gaetano and Pasqualina Faella Memorial Endowment.