Architect Hargreaves Offers Lecture Series

Educated at the University of Georgia and Harvard, George Hargreaves is Chairman of the Department of Landscape Design and Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

George Hargreaves, considered one of the outstanding landscape architects of his generation, will kick off a series of Monday evening slide lectures on landscape design next week with a look at the process of designing landscapes at every scale.

The hourlong lectures (6:30 to 7:30 p.m.) are sponsored by the New York Botanical Garden and will take place at the Urban Center on Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

From his firm's offices in New York, Cambridge, Mass., and San Francisco, Hargreaves has created several award-winning landscapes, including Crissy Field in San Francisco, the Sydney 2000 Olympics and the Waterfront Park in Louisville, Ky. His work will be shown this fall at an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. His talk is titled "Landscapes: Large and Small."

Here's a look at the rest of the series:

• Oct. 18: "The World Trade Center Memorial and Other Projects" with Peter Walker. Having worked in the field of landscape architecture for more than four decades, Walker's projects range from small gardens to new cities, from urban plazas to corporate headquarters. He has chaired the landscape architecture departments at both Harvard and Berkeley, and his talk will include his work on the World Trade Center Memorial, for which he won the competition with architect Michael Arad.
• Oct. 25: "City Work: Public and Private Places" with Judith Heintz. She has won awards for her design work at the Brooklyn Museum, Wall Street Esplanade and Ferry Pier. Among the projects she will discuss are a Greenwich Village townhouse garden featuring a stainless steel and glass deck.
• Nov. 1: "Re-imagined Landscapes" with Julie Bargmann. She is known nationwide for reclaiming derelict sites such as former coal/coke works and creating regenerative places. Bargmann and her students at the University of Virginia and her co-workers at DIRT Studio consider themselves "toxic avengers."

--From The Journal-News