2005 Garden and Landscape Symposium
Dumbarton Oaks and the United States Botanic Garden
Present
Existence and Experience in Contemporary Garden Design
May 4-7, 2005
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
9:15 Meeting in front of Dumbarton Oaks
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Trip to National Arboretum with the Artists
2:00 Return downtown or to Dumbarton Oaks
Thursday, May 5, 2005
9:00 a.m. Registration and Coffee on the Terrace
9:30 Welcome by Edward L. Keenan, Director of Dumbarton Oaks
Welcome by Holly Shimizu Director of the US Botanic Garden
Introduction by Michel Conan, Director of Garden and Landscape Studies
Session I: Moderator : Prof. Athena Tacha
10:00-10:40 Susan Herrington, “When Art is a Garden—Benny Farm”
10:40-11:20 Philip Pregill, “Isamu Noguchi and California Scenario: A Contemporary Garden Synthesis”
11:20-12:00 Discussion panel
12:00-1:30 Lunch
Session II: Moderator : Prof. Kendal Brown
1:30-2:10 Priyaleen Singh, “Culture, tradition and contemporary Indian landscape design”
2:10-2:50 Christian Tschumi, “The re-enchantment of the Maegaki residence by Mirei Shigemori
2:50-3:30 Discussion panel
3:30-4:00 Break
Session III: Moderator : Prof Erik de Jong
4-4:40 Michel Conan, “The Colas Gardens by Bernard Lassus: Coming to terms with Fleeting Encounters in a De-centred World”
4:40-5:20 Udo Weilacher, “The garden as the last luxury today, Thought provoking garden projects by Dieter Kienast (1945-1998)”
5:20-6:00 Discussion panel
Evening: 7 p.m. Dinner at United States Botanic Garden
Friday, May 6
9:00 Coffee on the Terrace
Session IV: Moderator : Dra Sonia Berjman
9:30-10:10 Peter Jacobs, “The Gardens of Fernando Chacel”
10:10-10:50 Jacques Leenhardt, “The Planet Experience and the Garden”
10:50-11:30 Discussion panel
11:30-1:00 Lunch
Session V: Moderator : Prof. Arnold Berleant
1:00-1:40 Nicolas Soulier, “Cécile Daladier’s Sensor Gardens”
1:40-2:20 Xin Wu, “The Draw at Sugar House by Patricia Johanson”
2:20-2:50 Discussion Panel
2 :50- 3-20 Break
Session VI: Moderator : Prof. Richard Etlin
3:20-4:00 Michael Spens, “A critical Assessment of Charles Jencks contribution to the renewal of Garden Aesthetics”
4:00-4:40 Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, “Paolo Burgi’s Cardada : l’Esperienza dello Sguardo”
4:40-5:20 Discussion panel
Evening: Participants Reception on the terrace
Saturday, May 7
Session VII: Moderator : Prof. Diana Balmori
9 a.m. Coffee on the Terrace
9:30- 10:10 Jacky Bowring, “To Make the Stone[s] Stony: Defamiliarisation and Andy Goldsworthy’s Garden of Stone”
10:10-10:50 Stephen Bann, “A ‘Garden of the Hesperides’: The Landscape initiative of the Musée Gassendi, Digne, and the National Park of Alpes de Haute-Provence”
10:50-11:30 Discussion panel
11:30-1:30 Lunch
Session VIII: Moderator : Prof. Stephen Bann
1:30-2:10 Beatriz Colomina, “Existence and Experience in Dan Graham’s Garden Design and Theory”
2:10-2:50 Erik de Jong, “Elective Affinities'. Creation at Teardrop Park by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates”
2:50-3:30 Discussion Panel
3:30-3 :50 Concluding remarks by Michel Conan
End of Symposium
4:00 – 6:00 Final Reception in the Garden