Hosted by the Southern California Chapter | Presented as Part of the Bunny Mellon Curricula at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art
Please join us in welcoming Wade Graham for the lecture "Classical Gardens in Arid Climates."
Wade will explore the roots of classical gardens in the Ancient World, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, before looking at more recent historical examples, especially in the Americas. Classical garden design evolved in good part as a practical response to arid and semiarid climates. By teasing out this climate-derived design DNA, we can chart new directions and opportunities for garden-making in dry regions in the era of climate change.
Wade Graham is a historian, journalist, and landscape designer based in Los Angeles. He has three decades’ experience designing gardens, throughout California, as well as in Hawaii, New York, Florida, and Mexico. He is the author of American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to our Back Yards, What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are, a cultural history of gardens in America (HarperCollins, 2011), Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World, a global history of visionary urbanism (HarperCollins, 2016), Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii, an environmental history of Hawaii (Univ. of California Press, 2018), and the upcoming Southland: An Atlas and Almanac of Los Angeles County (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024). He writes a monthly environment column, “Walden,” for the UK magazine Perspective, and has written on the environment, landscape, urbanism, and the arts for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Los Angeles Times, Outside and other publications.
Thank you to Mulligan's and Hoffman & Ospina for graciously hosting this event.
This event is hosted by an ICAA Chapter. Please check the Chapter website or contact the Chapter directly for the most up-to-date details including dates, times, and pricing.
Presented as part of the Bunny Mellon Curricula at the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. The ICAA is very grateful to the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation for its generous support of this program, along with the Curricula's Lead Sponsor Hollander Design Landscape Architects and Continuing Education and Public Programs Sponsor Charlotte Moss.