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LA Days 2004 Schedule of Lectures
31 March, Wednesday Shunsaku Miyagi
Born in Uji City, Kyoto Shunsaku Miyagi has been familiar with traditional Japanese gardens since his childhood. He obtained Master's Degree from the Graduate School of Kyoto University in landscape architecture and then studied landscape design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. On his completion of his advanced study and professional practice at a design firm in the U.S., he returned to Japan where he currently teaches at the Nara National Women's University as a professor after his career as associate professor of Chiba University. As a partner of the design firm PLACEMEDIA, Miyagi has worked on a number of landscape design projects. http://member.nifty.ne.jp/placemedia/ ........................................................... 1 April, Thursday Peter Walker
Peter Walker is a landscape architect with forty years of experience in practice and teaching. The scope of his concerns is expansive — from the design of small gardens to the planning of cities — with a particular emphasis given to the scale of projects for corporate headquarters, plazas, academic campuses and urban renewal. Exploring the relationship among art, culture, and context, Peter Walker reforms the landscape — whether urban or natural — and challenges traditional concepts of design. Co-founder of the firm, Sasaki, Walker and Associates (established in 1957), Peter Walker opened its west-coast office, which became The S.W.A. Group in 1975. As Principal, Consulting Principal, and Chairman of the Board, he helped to shape The S.W.A. Group as a multi-disciplinary office with an international reputation for excellence in environmental design. In 1983, he formed Peter Walker and Partners. http://www.pwpla.com ........................................................... 2 April , Friday Pamela Burton
Pamela Burton combines an extensive knowledge of plant material and the history of landscape with an interest in architectural spaces, which have symbolic resonance. She has taught and lectured on the history of landscape and its relationship to art and architecture at many Universities including the UCLA School of Architecture and The University of Southern California School of Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture. Her studies in landscape have led to design symposia and international speaking engagements on such topics as "Garden as Sanctuary," "Memory and Landscape," "Balance and Uncertainty" and "Poetics of the Garden." Her work has been featured in the books Garden Design and Empowered Gardens as well as publications such as Landscape Architecture, Transforming the American Garden, Process,and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. http://pamelaburtonco.com/ ........................................................... 3 April , Saturday Walter Hood
Professor Hood's research interests include the critical examination and development of specific urban landscape typologies for the American city. Together they reflect and reinforce specific cultural, environmental, and physical complexities of the city and neighborhood landscape. Through his teaching, writing, and practice Hood advocates the art of "Improvisation" as a design process for making urban landscapes and architecture. http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/ ........................................................... All presentations begin at 7:00pm, room TBA |
