13.10.2014
Professor Marc Treib gives two public lectures at Aalto University Department of Architecture
Professor Marc Treib gives two public lectures at Aalto University Department of Architecture
- LIMITS OF SUSTAINABILITY, on Monday, 20 October at 5 pm,
- IN PRAISE OF MASTER PLAN, on Tuesday, 21 October at 9 am,
The events take place in Otaniemi, at Aalto University Department of Architecture's former premises; address Otakaari 1X, lecture hall A2. The entrance via the former Department of Land Survey, ("Wing M") Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture Emeritus, from University of California Berkeley. He is internationally one of the most prominent authors and critics in the field of landscape architecture. In his writings he has investigated the significance of the landscape architecture in field of arts and especially its relationship with architecture. He has widely published on the modernism of landscape architecture e.g. on the legacy of Garrett Eckbo and Thomas Church. He has received several awards including the ASLA (American Association of Landscape Architects) award in 2003. Treib has twice been in Finland as a Fulbright scholar.
Treib visits the Aalto University Landscape Architecture degree programme, moderating a two-day workshop in a studio course that aims to find models for the landscape development on the Otaniemi Campus where the contradictory demands of protection and development meet. The lectures are part of the workshop, but open to the public.
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