$17.00 (Member Price) / $22.00 (Non-Member Price) / $25.00 (Day of Event)
with Dean Cardasis, fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a co-founder and director of The James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design in Ridgewood, N.J., for which he won the ASLA’s Classic Award and Centennial Medallion in 1999.
James Rose (1913-1991) is best known as one of three rebellious students who ushered landscape architecture into the modern era in the late 1930’s. Expelled from Harvard for his efforts, he went on to have a distinguished career, principally in the design of private gardens and as the author of important works on landscape architecture. Referred to by one writer as the “James Dean of Landscape Architecture,” Rose’s tempestuous personality appears to contradict his serene and contemplative gardens. Dean will examine Rose’s life and legendary work-focusing on how he redefined modern concepts of beauty in the garden. The talk will conclude with a showing of James Rose’s 30-minute video, entitled “The Heavenly Environment . . . and Other Crimes.”
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