The 2011 Douglas C. Allen Lecture series at COA continues its long list of impressive guest lecturers with George Hargreaves of Hargreaves Associates on April 6th.
Under his design direction, Hargreaves Associates, offices in San Francisco, California, Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York City, and London, has received 34 national awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Mr. Hargreaves was an artist in residence at the American Academy of Rome in 2009. He taught at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University for 20 years, tenured there for 12 years, and served as the chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture from1996 to 2003. He is the co-editor and author of “Large Parks,” a book that explores large urban parks in depth as complex cultural spaces, where key issues of landscape discourse, ecological challenges, social history, urban relations, and place-making.
The lecture by Mr. Hargreaves will be held at Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium from 6:00-7:30pm and AIA credit will be available.
