The first John Pratt Memorial Lecture will be presented at 4 p.m. March 5 by Dianne Harris, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. It will be held in Ray Parker Auditorium in Dudley Hall. Harris, whose lecture is titled “Clean and Bright and Everyone White: Seeing the Postwar Domestic Landscape in the United States,” is writing a book that examines postwar houses and gardens in the United States as frameworks for assimilation and the reinforcement of racial constructs and class assignment. She is the coeditor of “Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France” and the author of “The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape and Representation in Eighteenth Century Lombardy” and “Maybeck’s Landscapes: Drawing in Nature.” Her edited volume titled “Sites Unseen: Essays on Landscape and Vision” is due in bookstores this spring. The John Pratt Memorial Lecture honors the memory of John MacDougall Pratt, who was a professor of architectural history in the AU College of Architecture. He was a cherished member of the faculty from 1989 until his untimely death in 2001. The lecture series is funded through the generosity of alumni and friends.

Students in the College of Architecture’s Foreign Studies Program are presenting maps and drawings of Rome through March 2, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the college’s Dudley Commons Gallery. The students have been researching the histories of 10 sites in Rome, and illustrating the results by layering the maps and drawings they have uncovered in a palimpsest. They have simultaneously been studying preliminary and schematic design proposals for inserting a 21st Century study center and museum of cartography into the context of the Eternal City. These 38 students will be traveling to Rome for the second half of the semester to study the principles of design.

Date: Wednesday February 7th, 2007
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Ray Parker Auditorium (Dudley Hall B-6)

Miquel Adria is an architect graduated from the Superior Technical School of Architecture (ETSAB) in Barcelona, Spain. From 1982 to 1993 had a professional practice in Barcelona in association with Joan Fabregat. Has been living in México since 1994, dividing his time between architectural practice, teaching, and as author of architectural books and as director of the magazine “Arquine” (today the most important architectural journal in México). Has taught in Barcelona, Mexico City (Monterrey Technological Institute, Anahuac University, and the National University), and New Mexico. Some of his published books are “Mexico 90’s a Contemporary Architecture”, “Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon: Obra Completa”, and “Alberto Kalach”. Of his architectural works F2 House, designed in association with Isaac Broid and Michel Rojkind, was selected a Record House of 2002 by Architectural Record magazine. The Youth Center in Viladecans, Spain was published by Quaderns. Has done competitions in association with Dominique Perrault and Broid - Rojkind for the House of France in Mexico, finalist, and for the Jose Vasconcelos National Library, honorific mention.

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