Landscape Architect Chris Reed to Give Public Lecture

March 18, 2008

Landscape architect Chris Reed will give a free public lecture, "High-Performance Landscapes,” at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State University Park campus. Reed is the seventh speaker this year in the Department of Landscape Architecture’s Bracken Lecture series.

Reed is the principal and founder of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, a Boston-based strategic design and planning practice. Stoss has distinguished itself internationally for a hybridized approach to public works projects rooted in infrastructure, functionality and ecology. Stoss has been named finalist and winner in a number of international open space design and planning competitions, including the Erie Street Plaza in Milwaukee, the Lower Don Lands in Toronto, and the Safe Zone garden installation at Grand-Metis, Quebec, Canada. Most recently, Stoss was named an Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, and its work has just been published in a volume from C3 Publishers of Korea. Current and recent work includes public waterfronts, brownfield reclamation projects, interim landscapes, and large-scale infrastructures and open spaces in the United States, Canada, Asia and the Middle East. Reed teaches regularly at the University of Pennsylvania and has also taught at the Harvard Design School, the University of Virginia, the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Toronto.

Contact: Brenda Ross, blb1@psu.edu