If you are in Boston on Wednesday, April 19, here's an interesting garden-landscape lecture at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Part of their landscape lecture series.

LANDSCAPE VISIONS LECTURE SERIES

Exploring the garden traditions that influenced Isabella GardnerÂs world

April 19, 1:30PM

Change, Continuity, and Civic Ambition in the Cultural Landscape

Charles Birnbaum, landscape historian

Sampling landscapes from Italian villas to BostonÂs Emerald Necklace, Birnbaum reveals the challenges of historic preservation though an exploration of significance, integrity, authenticity, and holistic stewardship of cultural landscapes.

Charles Birnbaum is the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative. Prior to joining the NPS in 1992, Birnbaum spent a decade in private practice with a focus on landscape preservation. Representative preservation planning projects include the Emerald Necklace Parks in Boston, Massachusetts and Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. His most recent projects include the online series, Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms (with MIT Press), and editing Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture for Spacemaker Press and Pioneers of American Landscape Design: An Encyclopedia for McGraw Hill. In 1995, the ASLA awarded the Historic Landscape Initiative the President's Award and in 1996 inducted Mr. Birnbaum as a Fellow of the Society. He also served as a Loeb Fellow in 1998 at HarvardÂs Graduate School of Design during which time he founded The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Mr. Birnbaum is also an instructor for the National Preservation Institute and the Professional Development Program at the Harvard Design School.

TICKETS:

$7 General Public; $5 Members; FREE Students

Please call 617-278-5156 to purchase or online at www.gardnermuseum.org

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