LongHouse Landscape Legends – Modernist Landscapes

LongHouse’s annual Landscape Legends symposium returns on August 16 with Modernist Landscapes: Visionaries and Their Gardens, a full-day program exploring the intersection of modernist architecture and garden design. Set in LongHouse’s 16-acre sculpture garden, the event includes morning talks, garden walks, and lunch among the grounds. This year’s program highlights the role of landscape in the work of iconic 20th-century figures including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Russell Page, Louis I. Kahn, Harriet Pattison, and others.

Speakers include Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University; William Whitaker, Curator and Collections Manager of the Architectural Archives at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design; and Caleb Smith, Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Each will present on a major landscape figure—Bergdoll on van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, Whitaker on Harriet Pattison, and Smith on Russell Page—followed by a closing conversation with landscape designer Deborah Nevins, Chair of LongHouse’s Garden Committee.

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