Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime
Kenneth Helphand
Friday, 12 Oct 2007 at 6:00 pm – Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design
Kenneth Helphand is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, where he has taught since 1974. He has guest lectured at numerous universities and is a regular visiting professor at the Technion - the Israel Institute of Technology. His research is in landscape history and theory with a particular interest in the contemporary American landscape. His works include Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape and Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space. Most recently he published Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime, an examination of gardens of war in the twentieth century, including gardens built behind the trenches in World War I, in the Warsaw and other ghettos during World War II, and in Japanese-American internment camps. Helphand is a graduate of Harvard's Graduate School of Design. The P. H. Elwood Lecture in Landscape Architecture.Cosponsored By:
- Landscape Architecture
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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