The Gardens Trust lectures: landscape design and development in the Americas

This four-part lecture series on American Moderns will explore key landscapes which pushed the boundaries of the profession by pioneering new approaches, reflecting new philosophies and challenging assumptions about the form, use and meaning of landscape. The lectures explore how designers like Roberto Burle Max used gardens to promote national identity, the use of the natural world as inspiration for garden landscapes and design contemporary art movements and the pioneering and radical movement of Land Art that created extraordinary landscapes pushing the frontiers of landscape design. The talks will be delivered by Katie Campbell, a garden historian who has taught at various universities in the UK and written various publications like Icons of Twentieth Century Landscape Design and British Gardens in Time.

The first lecture will be held on 14 November, and the subsequent three lectures every subsequent Tuesday with the last lecture being held on 5 December. They are recorded and available for a week, so they can be viewed at leisure from anywhere in the world. Tickets are available individually at £5, or just £16 for all four lectures.

To book tickets, please go directly to Eventbrite here. You can also find out more about The Gardens Trust here. Please let me know if you have any queries or would like more information.