Kenneth Helphand, a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon, is scheduled to lecture in Dudley B6 on April 21 at 4:00 p.m. At the University of Oregon he has taught courses in landscape history, theory and design since 1974. A graduate of Brandeis University (1968) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (MLA 1972) Helphand is the recipient of distinguished teaching awards from the University of Oregon (1993) and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (1997). Helphand has guest lectured at dozens of universities and is a regular visiting professor at the Technion - the Israel Institute of Technology. He is the author of numerous of articles and reviews on topics in landscape history and theory with a particular interest in the contemporary American landscape. Defiant Gardens: Making Garden in Wartime published in 2006 is his latest effort.
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