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landscape design portfolios lecture series and andreW carnegie distinguished lecture
Landscape Design Portfolios
Lecture Series 2012
The New York Botanical Garden presents its popular series of evening
lectures by outstanding, award-winning designers who discuss their significant
landscape projects, providing insight into their working methods and design
philosophies. All of the speakers address, in one way or another, the challenge
of creating or renewing designed landscapes in complex environments.
New location this year: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street), Manhattan
One Tuesday and two Mondays: October 2, 15, and 22; 6:30–7:30 p.m.
Tuesday,
October 2–
Kongjian Yu
Monday,
October 15–
cornelia
Oberlander
Monday,
October 22–
Ryoko ueyama
registration fee
for each lecture:
$25/$22
register for
the series and
receive a discount:
132lan801
Section D: $68/$61
BEAuTifuL BiG fEET: TOwARD A NEw LANDSCAPE AESTHETiC
Acclaimed and much honored internationally, Chinese landscape architect and
educator Kongjian Yu received a Doctor of Design degree from Harvard’s Graduate
School of Design. He is founder and dean of the College of Architecture and
Landscape Architecture at Peking University and founder and president of Turenscape,
one of the first and largest private architecture and landscape architecture firms
in China. His practice includes projects in major cities in the United States and
around the world, and his numerous awards include this year’s prestigious ASLA
Excellence Award for his work at Qunli Stormwater Park. His guiding design principles
are appreciation of the ordinary and a deep embrace of the power of nature. A
monograph, Designed Ecologies, the Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu, was
published recently. Among the noted projects he will discuss are Houtan Park for
Shanghai Expo, Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdaoa, and Shipyard Park in Zhongshan.
132LAN801 Section A: Tuesday, October 2
creative inventions
Canadian Cornelia Oberlander was featured in the Botanical Garden’s first Landscape
Design Portfolios Lecture Series in 1998 when she presented her iconic designs for
Robson Square and the Museum of Anthropology, both in her home city of Vancouver.
Since then she has received seven honorary degrees, the Order of Canada, the 2011
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award from the International Federation of Landscape Architects,
and the 2012 ASLA President’s Medal. The IFLA award noted, “Ms. Oberlander has
been producing designs for a greener future for six decades.” A graduate of Smith
College and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, she is known for her creative
sensibility and fierce commitment to sustainable design. She has written, “I dream of
Green Cities with Green Buildings where rural and urban activities live in harmony.”
Encouraging her audience to dream with her, she will show three recent projects: one
in Vancouver and two in the Northwest Territories near the Arctic Circle.
132LAN801 Section B: Monday, October 15
the memorY of the land
Pioneering Japanese designer Ryoko Ueyama earned her graduate landscape
architecture degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and worked with famed
San Francisco landscape architect Lawrence Halprin before returning to Japan to
found Ryoko Ueyama Landscape Design Studio in Tokyo. She has built her career
as both an innovative designer and a dedicated teacher. She is currently Professor
Emerita at Nagaoka Institute of Design, where, from 2008 until this past spring, she
was University President. She has written, “When a landscape architect is entrusted
with a piece of land, regardless of its size…his or her essential obligation is to
recognize the site’s ideal image by listening to its ‘voice.’” Her work is spiritual as well
as theatrical. Known for both meticulous details and expansive and cosmic inspiration
in a variety of settings, she will discuss three award-winning projects: Nagasaki
Seaside Park, Shiba Satsuma Street, and Nagaoka Peace Forest Park.
132LAN801 Section C: Monday, October 22
Susan Cohen, FASLA, RLA, Coordinator of the Landscape
Design Program, organized this series.
Each lecture is approved for one credit hour by the Landscape
Architecture Continuing Education System.
Seating is limited, so please register early. Registration will be
accepted at the door only if seating is available.
andrew carnegie
distinguished lecture
“a rich spot of earth” :
Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary
Garden at Monticello
Peter J. Hatch
Tuesday, Oct. 16, at Sotheby’s
Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds
of Monticello today, he would no doubt
feel fully at home in the 1,000-foot-long
terraced vegetable garden where the very
vegetables and herbs he favored are thriving.
Restored under Peter J. Hatch’s brilliant
direction, Jefferson’s unique vegetable
garden now boasts the same medley of
plants he enthusiastically cultivated in the
early 19th century. Hatch guides us through
the vegetable garden’s restoration and his
many years of work preserving the gardens at
Monticello—a living expression of Jefferson’s
genius and his distinctly American attitudes.
peter J. hatch, Retired Director of Gardens
and Grounds at Monticello, has been
responsible for the maintenance, interpretation,
and restoration of the 2,400-acre landscape
of Thomas Jefferson’s historic home in
Charlottesville, Virginia, since 1977. His most
recent book, “A Rich Spot of Earth”: Thomas
Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello,
focuses on the restoration, American
characteristics, and legacy of Monticello’s
vegetable garden.
Directly following the lecture, Mr. Hatch will
sign copies of his book, which will be available
for purchase.
Complimentary for Garden Patrons
R.S.V.P. to gardenpatrons@nybg.org or
call 718.817.8553.
$39/$35 Non-Member/Member
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 6:30–7:30 p.m.,
reception to follow
132GAR808, Sotheby’s
for general registration call 718.817.8747.
Support for the Andrew Carnegie Distinguished
Lecture has been provided by the Carnegie
Corporation of New York.
This event is generously underwritten and
hosted by
1334 York Avenue, Manhattan