The first John Pratt Memorial Lecture is going to be held on March 05, 2007 by Dianne Harris, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Architecture at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign.

Date: March 05, 2007
Time: 4 pm
Location: Ray Parker Auditorium (Dudley Hall B-6)

Professor Harris whose lecture is entitled “Clean and Bright and Everyone White: Seeing the Postwar Domestic Landscape in the United States” is currently 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 (with Mirka Benes) of Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and the author of The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape and Representation in Eighteenth Century Lombardy (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003) and Maybeck’s Landscapes: Drawing in Nature (William Stout, 2005). Her edited volume titled Sites Unseen: Essays on Landscape and Vision is due to be in the bookstores this spring. Professor Harris holds affiliate appointments in the departments of history and art history at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign.

The John Pratt Memorial Lecture honors the memory of John MacDougall Pratt, a professor of architectural history in the School of Architecture. John was a cherished member of the School of Architecture faculty from 1989 until his untimely death in 2001. A native of Canada, Pratt did his graduate work under the direction of Christian Otto at Cornell University, where his research focused on Eero Saarinen and the influence of the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Former students and colleagues alike fondly recall his unbridled enthusiasm for architecture and its history, his insatiable curiosity for the wide spectrum of humanistic endeavors, and his wry sense of humor. The College continues to benefit from Pratt’s love of books and the ideas they contain as a result of the donation of his extensive personal library to the Library of Architecture, Design, and Construction.

The John Pratt Memorial Lecture is funded through the generosity of alumni and friends of the College.

Architect Charles Rose will lecture at 4:00 in Dudley Hall Parker Auditorium (B-6).

Camp Paint Rock, Hyattville, WY

Charles Rose Architects is an innovative award-winning firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Issues of the landscape and its relationship to architecture are fundamental to the firm’s work. Charles Rose Architects is dedicated to creating structures that respond to and are in dialogue with their surroundings. Charles Rose Architects carefully considers issues of programming, cost control, environmental sensitivity and the cultural and physical characteristics of the site. While their work has received much acclaim for its design excellence, Charles Rose Architects takes a special pride in their responsiveness to the concerns of their clients. The firm’s design approach is based on intensive dialogue and collaboration. Mr. Rose believes that only by listening closely to their clients and understanding their perspective can they be successful in transforming their visions into significant architecture.

To learn more, please visit www.charlesrosearchitects.com

Immediately after the lecture there will be a book signing and Mr. Rose’s new monograph will be for sale at Dudley Supplies.

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Day: Wednesday October 11, 2006
Time: 4:00pm
Location: B-6 Ray Parker Auditorium