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Embellishments,
Improvements and Greenswards: American Gardens and Landscapes
of the Nineteenth Century
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During
the Nineteenth Century Americans discovered a new world, or
as one writer stated in 1856, "The love of Nature affords
us the purest delight and is implanted in the human breast."
This talk will consider some of the ways in which Americans
introduced nature into their life by examining the development
of parks, cemeteries, and gardens with special attention to
the growth of garden literature for the home. Different styles
of gardens and landscape treatment will be considered along
with some of the major nurserymen and designers.
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Saturday, April 12, 2003
10:30am - 12:00pm
at the Southwest
Virginia Higher Education Center
1 Partnership Circle, Abingdon
Co-hosted by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Garden Faire
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 Richard
Guy Wilson holds the Commonwealth Professor's Chair in Architectural
History at the University of Virginia, where he is also
Chair of the Department of Architectural History. His specialty
is the architecture, design and art of the 18th to the 20th
century both in America and abroad.
He was born in Los Angeles—the home of everything new—and
grew up in a Rudolph Schindler house, the leading modernist,
designed for his parents. He received his undergraduate
training at the University of Colorado and MA and Ph.D.
at the University of Michigan. He taught at Michigan and
Iowa State University before coming to Virginia in 1976.
Wilson has received a number of academic honors, among them
a Guggenheim fellow, prizes for distinguished writing, and
in 1986 he was made an honorary member of the American Institute
of Architects (AIA).He has served as an advisor and commentator
for a number of television programs on PBS and A&E,
most recently over sixty-five segments of America's Castles.
He has been the curator and author for major museum exhibitions,
among them The American Renaissance, 1876-1917; The Art
that is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America;
The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941, and "Honor
and Intimacy: Drawings by AIA Gold Medalists,"
all of which appeared across the country at different museums.
He served as co-author and co-curator at the Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts for The Making of Virginia Architecture
(1992), and organized, edited, and wrote an essay in the
catalogue of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The
Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece (1993). He
is the co-author of The Campus Guide: The University
of Virginia (1999).
Currently he is writing a guide book to the architecture
of Virginia for the Society of Architectural Historians,
and working on a book and exhibit on Wilderness Rusticity
in American art and architecture.
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the list of resources
for Mr. Wilson's Lecture in pdf format. You need Adobe
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Professor
Wilson's published works include:
The Prairie School in Iowa. Iowa State University Press.
(1977)
McKim,
Mead & White, Architects, Rizzoli Press. (1983)
The
AIA Gold Medal. McGraw-Hill Publishers. (1984)
Wilson,
Richard Guy et al. The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941.
Harry N. Abrams Press. (reprinted 2001)
A
frequent lecturer for universities, museums and professional
groups, he has published some 200 additional articles and
reviews.
Recent News and Quotes
Professor Wilson was quoted September 12 in a Washington Post
story by Adrian Higgins headlined: PUTTING
THE OUTSIDE IN / IN TIDEWATER VIRGINIA, A GEORGETOWN COUPLE
CREATES A HOUSE AROUND A GARDEN
Professor
Wilson was quoted September 4th in a Los Angeles Times story
by Sally Ann Connell:
HOUSE
MADE OF TRASH IS SEEN AS EYESORE AND TOURIST ATTRACTION /
LANDMARK: THE SITE IN CAMBRIA IS A STATE- RECOGNIZED 'FOLK
ART ENVIRONMENT,' BUT SOME NEIGHBORS HATE IT.
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Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History