Critical Landscapes: From Pork Barrels to Otherworldly Dumps and Gardens
Mira Engler
Monday, 06 Nov 2006 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Mira Engler, the Fall University Presidential Lecture and a professor of landscape architecture at Iowa State University, has written extensively on public art and marginal/waste landscapes. She designed The Otherworld Garden, an experimental garden created for the 2004 Westonbirt International Garden Festival in Gloucestershire, West England, and she is the author of Designing America's Waste Landscapes.A reception and poster display in the South Ballroom will precede the lecture from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.Cosponsored By:
- Miller Endowment, Inc.
- Office of the President
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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