Myles. H. Thaler Memorial Lecture:“The Art of Survival: Recovering Landscape Architecture”

[IMG]http://www.arch.virginia.edu/images/photos/calendar/Kongjian_Yu.jpg[/IMG] Kongjian Yu Founder and Dean of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Peking University China Friday, October 13, 2006 5 pm–6:30 pm Minor Hall 125 Yu is the founder and dean of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture at Peking University, and is the founder and President of Turenscape, which is an internationally awarded firm with more than 200 professionals and is one of the largest private firms in China that focuses on landscape architecture, urban design and architecture. Having graduated with a Doctorate in Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1995, Yu subsequently worked as landscape architect and urban designer with the SWA Group in the USA. [B]Myles H. Thaler Lecture[/B] Myles H. Thaler (LArch, '73) was a member of the first graduating class of the department of landscape architecture at the School of Architecture. A native of Baltimore, at the time of his death in 1992, Mr. Thaler directed the buildings and grounds division of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. For much of his career, he had been administrator of the Naval Observatory, as well as maintained a private practice. In 1990, Mr. Thaler endowed a perpetual lecture fund with the following intent: "The purpose of the fund is to bring to the School of Architecture nationally prominent scholars and practitioners to give public presentations on the subject of 'the meaning of the garden,' in order to expand public awareness of the cultural significance throughout history of gardens both public and private." He also designed and built a meditation garden at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center. Lecturers 2006·Kongjian Yu, Peking, China 2005·Craig Verzone and Cristina Woods, Switzerland and Barcelona, Spain 2004·Michael Van Valkenburgh, New York, New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts 2003·Denis Cosgrove, Los Angeles, California 2002·Ken Smith, New York, New York 2001·Beth Gali, Barcelona, Spain 2000·Cornelia Oberlander, Vancouver, British Columbia 1999·Kathryn Gustafson, Seattle, Washington and London, England 1998·Peter and Anneliese Latz, Munich, Germany 1997·Mario Schjetnan, Colonia Condesa, Mexico 1996·Adriaan Geuze, Rotterdam, Netherlands 1994·Martha Schwartz, Cambridge, Massachussetts 1992·Roberto Burle-Marx, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1990·Ian McHarg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Related Link http://www.arch.virginia.edu