ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER IAN McHARG
 AND LEGAL MENTOR LLOYD CUTLER
TO RECEIVE U.VA'S HIGHEST HONORS ON FOUNDER'S DAY

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 24 -- A longtime standard-bearer
of the environmental movement and one of the country's most
respected constitutional lawyers will be honored and give public
lectures as part of the University of Virginia's Founder's Day
celebrations next month.
	Noted environmental planner and landscape architect Ian L.
McHarg, author of the classic book "Design With Nature" and a
pioneer in linking ecology to land planning, will receive the 30th
annual Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal in Architecture.
Lloyd Cutler, the venerable Washington, D.C., lawyer who served both
Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton as White House counsel,
will receive the 19th annual Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Award in Law.
	The awards, for distinguished contributions to two fields
that were of deep interest to Jefferson, are the highest outside
honors conferred by U.Va., which awards no honorary degrees.  The
awards will be presented at a private luncheon in the Rotunda on
Thursday, April 13, the University Founder's 252nd birthday.  The
prizes are sponsored by the University and the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation, which owns and operates Jefferson's home,
Monticello.
	McHarg will make a presentation about his environmental
philosophy and work, which have received worldwide recognition, at 4
p.m. Thursday, April 13, in McLeod Hall Auditorium.
	Cutler, who has been deeply involved at the intersection of
policy and politics for some five decades, will lecture at 4:15 p.m.
Wednesday, April 12, at the law school's Caplin Auditorium.  His
topic will be "The Growing Distrust of Government."
	Both talks are open to the public.
	"Through his far-reaching vision of a civilization in which
human designs must harmonize with the environment, Ian McHarg has
been a constant inspiration to countless designers, planners and
ordinary citizens," said William A. McDonough, dean of the School of
Architecture.  "A dedicated teacher in the broadest sense, he has
continually reminded us that sensitivity to the natural world around
us is crucial to our common future."
	 Law school dean Robert E. Scott said, "Lloyd Cutler is one
of this nation's most distinguished lawyers and public citizens.
His wise counsel has been invaluable to countless American citizens,
including many presidents and numerous government officials.  His
astute judgement and irrefutable integrity epitomize the
Jeffersonian ideal of the lawyer as public servant that this award
represents."
	McHarg, a native of Scotland who founded the department of
landscape architecture and regional planning at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1954, is now a professor emeritus there.  For his
crusading work in behalf of environmental awareness generally, he
has received a multitude of honors, including a National Medal of
the Arts from President George Bush in 1990.
	McHarg's 1969 landmark book "Design With Nature," which was
reprinted four times in its first year alone, helped inspire the
then-fledgling environmental movement.  Still required reading by
design and planning students, it introduced the scientific method to
land planning, urging careful environmental analysis and protection
of sensitive lands.  The work influenced local land ordinances
throughout the country and helped lead to the use of environmental
impact statements.
	As a result, public agencies now clearly specify that
development projects can't be built on poor soils, erosion-prone
slopes or in other environmentally sensitive areas.  Typical among
the dozens of important projects throughout the world in which
McHarg has applied his own ecological planning methods have been the
Woodlands community design, outside Houston; the Potomac River Task
Force study; the Plan for the Valleys, outside Baltimore; the
Baltimore Inner Harbor Study; and the Lower Manhattan Study, which
helped create a framework for Battery Park City.
	McHarg has served on many U.S. government projects,
including White House task forces on conservation (Kennedy
administration), recreation and natural beauty (Johnson
Administration), children and youth (Nixon administration) and
Energy and Environment (Carter administration).  At 74, he is
currently working on a national environmental inventory and
completing an autobiographical book.
	He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape
Architects and Institute of Landscape Architects (U.K.) and an
honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects and honorary
member of the American Institute of Architects.
	Cutler, whom President Clinton turned to last year to serve
as counsel to the president, also served as President Carter's White
House counsel from 1979 to 1981.  As a trusted senior figure in the
nation's capital, he was regarded by both presidents as not only a
legal adviser but also as a wise political counselor.  He served on
President Bush's Commission on Federal Ethics Reform in 1989.
	A New York City native and alumnus of Yale University and
its law school, Cutler came to Washington during World War II as a
military intelligence specialist.  He has stayed there, blending
private practice with frequent government service, and has long been
a mentor to many younger Washington lawyers.
	A longtime champion of civil liberties, in 1963 Cutler
helped found the LawyersÕ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to
defend Southern blacks.  In 1983 he successfully defended before the
U.S. Supreme Court an NAACP economic boycott, and he has also
represented Common Cause and the American Civil Liberties Union in
important Supreme Court cases. In 1968-69 he served as executive
director of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of
Violence.
	Believing it is a lawyer's duty to represent responsibly
anyone seeking counsel, Cutler has accepted controversy as part of
his work.  The 77-year-old master lawyer is known above all for his
courtly manner and calm, deliberate approach to complex issues.
	Previous winners of the Jefferson architecture medal include
such leading figures as Mies van der Rohe, Lewis Mumford, I.M. Pei,
Ada Louise Huxtable, Philip Johnson, Vincent Scully, Robert Venturi,
Aldo Rossi, Fumihiko Maki and Frank O. Gehry.
	The Jefferson award in law has gone to a wide range of
judges, legal scholars and public servants, including Supreme Court
Justices Lewis F. Powell Jr. and Sandra Day O'Connor, Chief Justices
Warren E. Burger and William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn and
former Sen. Edmund Muskie.
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March 23, 1995