Featured Opportunity: Harvard GSD Exhibition: Constructing the Swiss Landscape
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Is encroaching development turning Switzerland’s seemingly pristine Alps into an urban landscape? What is the relationship between designed and cultural landscapes? Is there such thing as a “national landscape?” What are the lessons to be learned from Switzerland’s model of a rural-urban-suburban mosaic against the specter of urban sprawl? These and other compelling questions are the subject of “Constructing the Swiss Landscape,” an exhibition currently underway at the Harvard University School of Design (GSD). The exhibition will run from December 1-January 15, 2007.

The exhibition includes works by Georges Descombes and ADR, Schweingruber Zulauf, Dieter Kienast and Günther Vogt, Rotzler Krebs, Kuhn Truninger, and Vetsch Nipkow among others. Both events are organized by Dorothée Imbert, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The exhibition and symposium received generous support from the Consulate of Switzerland/Swiss House for Advanced Research-Boston, Presence Switzerland, Pro Helvetia, Swiss eform-Eternit and Holcim (US), Inc.

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