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Graduate School of Design professor Michael Van Valkenburgh—who specializes in landscape architecture—will be honored this coming May with the American Academy of Arts and Letters’s 2010 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture...
...Van Valkenburgh is the only living GSD Landscape Architecture professor to have received this award, which is rarely awarded to a landscape architect...
...Van Valkenburgh’s work has included landscape designs for Pennsylvania Avenue, the American Museum of Natural History, and Cornell and Princeton Universities. He has also spearheaded efforts to restore Harvard Yard over the past twenty years...
Most recently, Van Valkenburgh designed the newly opened Brooklyn Bridge Park at Pier 1 in New York City, which Ethan Carr, an associate professor of landscape history at the University of Virginia, said will likely be one of the “most successful of this new generation of municipal park projects...
Etruscan, Greek, Chinese, and Islamic vases find a place among the vast collection of the Harvard Art Museum alongside the work of European masters like Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso. Only a few blocks away, Pueblo ceramics from the American Southwest and pottery from the Moche civilization in Peru reside in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. While the few blocks that separate the museums are rather small, the assumptions motivating the division between art objects and ethnographic objects are significant. Recently, though, steps have been taken both on and off campus to complicate the division between fine...