Landscape architect Peter Walker will be presenting a lecture on landscape architecture and urban design as part of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts’ John Yeon Lecture Series in November. The public lecture will take place in Portland at noon on Nov. 9 in the fourth floor review room in the UO Portland Center. The address is 722 SW 2nd Avenue.

Peter Walker has wielded significant influence in the field of landscape architecture over a five-decade career, crystallizing what is known as the American corporate multidisciplinary office. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Walker has taught, lectured, written, and served as an advisor to numerous public agencies, while exerting personal control over the design of his own projects. Walker’s firm, Peter Walker and Partners Landscape Architecture, located in Berkeley, CA, is currently working on a variety of national and international projects, including the World Trade Center Memorial in New York.

The scope of Walker’s landscape inquiries is expansive as well as deep. Projects range from small gardens to new cities, from urban plazas to corporate headquarters and academic campuses. With a dedicated concern for urban and environmental issues, his designs shape the landscape in a variety of geographic and cultural contexts, from the United States to Japan, China, Australia, and Europe. Walker is also the founder of Spacemaker Press, and his work has been extensively published in Europe and Asia as well as the United States. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and of the Institute for Urban Design and has been granted the Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects, Harvard’s Centennial Medal, the University of Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson Medal, the ASLA Medal, and the IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Gold Medal.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, click here.