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April 12, 2006 -- Landscape architect Michael Vergason, a University of Virginia alumnus, will give the School of Architecture/Thomas Jefferson Foundation Visiting Professor Lecture on Friday, April 21, at 5 p.m. in Campbell Hall, Room 153. He will lecture on “Recent Work” produced by his firm, Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, which he founded in 1987.
Vergason is principle of MVLA in Alexandria, Va., a small firm that specializes in site planning and landscape architecture, with an emphasis on the seamless integration of the built and natural environments. The firm’s work includes institutional, commercial and residential projects.
Current works include a number of campus plans with Ayers Saint Gross Architects including work at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia and the University of Notre Dame. MVLA is working on the new admissions building and new museum at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. with Bohlin, Cywinski, Jackson. At Princeton University, MVLA has completed the Wallace School of Social Science with Bohlin, Cywinski, Jackson and the Friend Center with Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners. Institutional work includes ongoing planning and design for the National Cathedral, the recently completed Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., and work on a number of significant archaeological sites in Jordan and Cyprus including World Cultural Heritage sites at Petra and Kouklia. Recent commercial projects include the Gannett/USA Today Headquarters in McLean, Va. with Kohn Pederson Fox, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Headquarters, IBM/Park Tower Rock Spring and the International Trade Center Barcelona with Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. MVLA is also working on a number of private residences throughout the country.
Vergason has received numerous awards including a 1996 Potomac & Maryland American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award for the Huntsville Golf Club, a 1996 Potomac & Maryland ASLA Merit Award and an Innovation Award for the Terkowitz Residence and a 1995 Potomac & Maryland ASLA Honor Award for the Columbus Law School.
Fergason received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees from the University of Virginia and was a Rome Prize Fellow in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome, Italy.
For more information contact Derry Wade at (434) 982-2921. |
