Award-Winning Landscape Architect Warren T. Byrd, Jr. to Give Public Lecture
October 8, 2009
Landscape architect and 2009-10 John R. Bracken Fellow Warren T. Byrd, Jr. will give a free public lecture, "Cienegaic Landscapes: The Recent Work of Nelson Byrd Woltz," at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 22, in 110 Business Building, on the Penn State University Park campus. Byrd is the second speaker this year in the Department of Landscape Architecture's Bracken Lecture Series.
As founding principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Byrd has led the firm in a wide range of public and private projects throughout the United States, as well as Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, Antigua, Russia, and China. Recent and current work includes the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, with Paul Murdoch Architects of Los Angeles; a two-block urban sculpture garden on the Gateway Mall in St. Louis; the Dell stormwater park at the University of Virginia; and the Asia Trail at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. The work of the firm has garnered more than 50 national and regional design awards within the past ten years.
In addition to his more than 30 years of practice, Byrd has taught for 26 years at the University of Virginia. His many honors include an all-university teaching award, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) teaching award, and two Bradford Williams Medals for articles published in Landscape Architecture magazine. Now a professor emeritus, Byrd’s particular focus, in both his teaching and his practice, has been on the understanding and adaptation of natural systems and plant communities as they might best influence sustainable strategies of design.
Contact: Brenda Ross, blb1@psu.edu