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SPEAKERS PROGRAM
LSS 100: Issues in Landscape Studies

This 2 credit course will meet Mondays, 2:40-4:00 pm,

in the Weinstein Auditorium (lower level of Wright Hall).

It is offered as S/NC only and may be taken twice for credit.

3 short papers and weekly readings related to the speakers’

topics are required. For more information please write to:

Reid Bertone-Johnson[ rbertone@email.smith.edu ]

Ann Leone [ aleone@email.smith.edu ]

                        

                             LIST OF SPEAKERS, SPRING 2009
                              ISSUES IN LANDSCAPE STUDIES

January 26

Reid Bertone-Johnson, Landscape Studies, Smith College

February 2

James von Klemperer, Principal-Kohn Pedersen Fox, New York,NY   Cities From Scratch: Designing Urban Environments in Asia and Beyond

February 9

The Mitia S. Sawhill Lecture Fund Presents

Stephen Schreiber, Architect, Director and Professor Architecture & Design Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Anatomy of Infill Projects

February 16

Andrew Guswa , Associate Professor of Engineering, Smith College

February 23

Elizabeth Brabec, Head of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts

March

2

Jeffrey D. Blankenship, Assistant Professor of Landscape               Architecture, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, New York

Reading Landscape: Modern America and the Cultural Landscape Idea at Mid Century, 1951-1968

March

9

Lloyd Eagan

March

23

Thom Long, Five College Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies, Hampshire College

Subjects + Objects: Rediscovering the Inhabitant of Architecture

March

30

Len Hopper, Senior Associate/Director of Promotion, Mark K. Morrison Associates Ltd, Landscape Architects

Building Our Path to Extinction: How our planning of cities and communities damages our health, environment and society and the changes that need to take place...Now.

April

6

Blake Williams, Architect, Five Colleges Associate

Invention and Context

April

13

Jim Middlebrook, Architecture, Smith College with Philip Speranza, Architect, Speranza Architecture, Barcelona, Spain & New York, NY

Oranges and Lemons                    

April

20

Paula Deitz, Editor of The Hudson Review

April

27

LSS 100 Annual Lecture in Honor of John Burk-Emeritus-

Biological Sciences-Smith College

Michael Marcotrigiano, Director-Smith College Botanic Garden,

Smith College

Rods, Cones, and Purple Mountain Majesties

 

                                                                                                                                                                       
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