College of Architecture Douglas C. Allen Lecture: George Hargreaves

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Wednesday April 6, 2011
      6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  • Location: Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium
  • Phone: (404) 894-3880
  • URL: http://www.coa.gatech.edu/about/map
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Contact

Teri Nagel, 404-385-2156

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The College of Architecture presents George Hargreaves in the 2011 Douglas C. Allen Lecture, which was established in appreciation for Allen's long-time dedication as teacher, colleague, and leader. AIA credit and APA/AICP certification maintenance credits will be available. Parking available in Peters Parking Deck.

George Hargreaves
is the Design Director of Hargreaves Associates, a professional consulting firm comprised of landscape architects and planners with offices in San Francisco, California, Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York City, and London. Under his design direction, Hargreaves Associates has received 34 national awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), six from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), five from the Waterfront Center, and three from Progressive Architecture. His work, and the work of Hargreaves Associates, have been and continue to be published and exhibited nationally and internationally. Mr. Hargreaves was an artist in residence at the American Academy of Rome in 2009. He taught at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University for 20 years, tenured there for 12 years, and served as the chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture from1996 to 2003. He is the co-editor and author of “Large Parks,” a book that explores large urban parks in depth as complex cultural spaces, where key issues of landscape discourse, ecological challenges, social history, urban relations, and place-making.

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College of Design, School of City & Regional Planning, School of Architecture

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Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
Architecture, city planning, douglas c. allen, urban design, Urban Planning
Status
  • Created By: Teri Nagel
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Dec 20, 2010 - 12:16pm
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 9:53pm