{"id":58750,"date":"2014-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-landscape-architecture-lecture-series-concludes-with-presentations-april-3-and-17\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:00:00","slug":"uri-landscape-architecture-lecture-series-concludes-with-presentations-april-3-and-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/uri-landscape-architecture-lecture-series-concludes-with-presentations-april-3-and-17\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series concludes with presentations April 3 and 17"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 18, 2014 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 2014 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series will conclude in April with two lectures by Cambridge-based landscape architects. Gary Hilderbrand, partner in the firm of Reed Hilderbrand LLC, will present a talk entitled \u201cTelescopic\u201d on April 3, while Marion Pressley, principle of Pressley Associates, will talk about her master plan for Pittsburgh\u2019s Point State Park on April 17.<\/p>\n


\n\tBoth speakers are national figures in the profession of landscape architecture. Their presentations begin at 7 p.m. in Weaver Auditorium in the Coastal Institute building on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus. The events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n


\nHilderbrand is a professor of landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has taught design studios, landscape technology and the use of plants as a sustainable medium in design since 1990. He is an author of two widely acclaimed books, a critic of 20th century landscape architecture practice, and winner of the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture. His firm, Reed Hilderbrand, was recognized in 2013 with the Landscape Architecture Firm Award, the highest award bestowed by the American Society of Landscape Architects. <\/p>\n


\nHe will speak about telescopic scales of inquiry in his firm\u2019s work, from the larger scale of urban recovery, to the scale of campus infrastructure, to investigations of material detail and tectonic expression. <\/p>\n


\nPressley has particular expertise in historic master planning, cultural landscape reports, and the preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of public parks and private historical properties. She teaches landscape history for the Landscape Institute of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard and serves as chair of the Board of Landscape Architectural Registration in Massachusetts. <\/p>\n


\nHer presentation, entitled \u201cRespecting the Continuum: Designing for the Past, Present, and Future,\u201d will examine her work at Point State Park in Pittsburgh, where she incorporated an extensive archaeological inventory and interpretive themes to guide the park\u2019s future evolution and protect its historic integrity.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Landscape Architecture series is co-sponsored by Bartlett Tree Experts, the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of the Environment and Life Sciences, and the Rhode Island chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. For more information about the series, contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Landscape Architecture at 874-2983 or Professor Will Green at wagre@uri.edu<\/a>.\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 18, 2014 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 2014 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series will conclude in April with two lectures by Cambridge-based landscape architects. Gary Hilderbrand, partner in the firm of Reed Hilderbrand LLC, will present a talk entitled \u201cTelescopic\u201d on April 3, while Marion Pressley, principle of Pressley Associates, will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}