Terry Harkness Plants and Design Lecture at UIUC

Ron Henderson was invited to deliver the Terry Harkness Lecture at the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The modernist history of landscape architecture is deeply rooted in regional and phenomenological sensibility that are central to the work and teaching of Terry Harkness.

The Terry Harkness "Plants and Design" Lecture recognizes the medium of plants as a primary component of the work of landscape architecture. Henderson spoke of several topics, including: planting design typologies that are a foundation of the plants course he teaches at IIT, recent work of LIRIO Landscape Architecture, and ongoing work on tree conservation with Japanese master gardener Kurato Fujimoto. The lecture included an exhibition of Henderson’s orihon sketchbooks.

CULTIVATING SPACE. Delivering the Terry Harkness Lecture with a projected image from my sketchbook of Tokyo Imperial Palace black pines.