Landscape Architect Michael Blier to Give Public Lecture
March 23, 2007
Landscape architect Michael Blier will give a free public lecture about his recent work at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 29, in 110 Business Building, on the Penn State University Park campus. Blier is the sixth speaker this year in the Department of Landscape Architecture's Bracken Lecture Series.
Founder of LANDWORKS Studio, Inc., in Salem, Mass.,Blier's work has been centered on the open spaces associated with the reemergence of South Boston. The firm's projects are motivated by a desire to engage innovative strategies for dealing with existing environmental and ecological issues present at the site and to offer contemporary, formally compelling and sustainable solutions. Many of the projects seek LEED certification and are primarily urban in nature.