University of Oregon Landscape Architecture Professor Emeritus Kenneth Helphand will be honored for his 40 years of teaching at a special symposium, “Landscape Thinking.”
The symposium will be from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 25, at the UO's Ford Alumni Center. Tickets are $100 for the symposium, including breakfast, lunch and reception. Tickets are $25 for the reception only.
Proceeds from the symposium will go toward the Kenneth I. Helphand Endowed Lecture Fund, which will bring top scholars in landscape architecture to teach UO students. The deadline to reserve tickets is May 15.
Helphand retired from full-time teaching last fall. Helphand – a graduate of Brandeis University and Harvard's Graduate School of Design – is the UO's Philip H. Knight Professor of Architecture and Allied Arts Emeritus. He taught courses in landscape history, theory and design beginning in 1974 and has received distinguished teaching awards from the UO and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.
Helphand is among the worldwide elite in landscape history and theory. He has guest-lectured at dozens of universities internationally and was a frequent visiting professor at the Israel Institute of Technology.
He has authored numerous publications on landscape history and theory, with a particular interest in contemporary American landscape. His book, “Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime,” received international recognition, winning awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects and was named one of the Books of the Year by the United Kingdom’s New Statesman.
The May 25 symposium will bring together top scholars, practitioners of landscape architecture and friends to recognize Helphand and to lecture. Symposium lecturers will include Helphand; Anne Spirn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Walter J. Hood and E. Marc Treib of the University of California, Berkeley; Laurie D. Olin of the University of Pennsylvania; Ben Helphand of NeighborSpace, Chicago; Cynthia Girling of the University of British Columbia; Daphna Greenstein of Greenstein Har-Gil Landscape Architecture Ltd., in Haifa, Israel; Robert Riley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Tal Alon-Mozes of the Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; and Liska Clemence Chan of the UO.
The symposium is presented by the Department of Landscape Architecture, the Fuller Center for Productive Landscapes and the School of Architecture and Allied Arts.
Tickets may be purchased online, at 541-346-4363, or by mailing payment to the A&AA Development Office, 5235 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97403.
- from the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts