ECOLOGY-MINDED URBAN DESIGNER DIANA BALMORI
TO LECTURE AT U.VA. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 13 -- Diana Balmori, award winning
urban designer and landscape architect who stresses the importance of
ecology and environmental harmony in design, will present a Dean's
Forum Lecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture on
Wednesday, April 2.  The lecture, at 6 p.m. in 153 Campbell Hall, is
free and open to the public.
	Balmori, founder of the landscape and urban design firm
Balmori Associates and a faculty member at the Yale School of
Architecture and Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies,
was one of six finalists in the recent World War II Memorial
competition.  She is co-author of the influential books "Saarinen
Garden: A Total Work of Art," "Redesigning the American Lawn:  A
Search for Environmental Harmony" and "Transitory Gardens, Uprooted
Lives," as well as design guidelines for American Greenways for the
National Rails-to-Trails Organization. 
	Her firm's current projects include the University of Texas
Master Plan; Owens-Corning World Headquarters in Toledo; Kuala Lumpur
City Centre in Malaysia; the Prairie Waterway in Famington, Minn.; and
the Washington National Airport redesign.
	At Yale Balmori teaches interdisciplinary courses including
"Collaboration in Landscape:  Art, Ecology and Architecture" and
"Design Across Disciplines: Ecology and the Arts." She has also
organized a long-range collaborative effort by five graduate schools
at Yale to assist the city of New Haven with innovative planning
strategies. 
	Her widely published work and many honors demonstrate the
breadth of her experience in architecture, urban design, landscape
architecture, ecology and architectural history.
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March 12, 1997
	For additional information please contact the School of
Architecture at (804) 924-3715.  Television reporters should call our
TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.