Landscape architecture in China will be the topic of the next lecture and exhibit sponsored by the College of Architecture, Planning and Design at Kansas State University.

A lecture by Judith Major, Ph.D., entitled

Bamboo and Stone Flower:  Images of China

is scheduled for Friday, February 5, 2010, at 3:30 p.m. in Room 212 of the K-State Student Union.

An exhibit by the same name will appear in Seaton Hall’s Chang Gallery from February 1-19, 2010. The Chang Gallery is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Both the lecture and exhibit are open to the public without charge.

Judith K. Major, Ph. D., is a landscape historian and a professor in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Kansas. She teaches first- and second-year design studios, site planning for architects, and a history/theory course in landscape architecture.

She received a grant from KU’s Center for East Asian Studies last spring to travel to China to learn about Chinese gardens. She spent 15 days in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Zhouzhuang and Suzhou visiting and photographing imperial parks and gardens and private gardens. 

Major’s field of specialization is nineteenth-century American landscape architecture. To Live in the New World: A. J. Downing and American Landscape Gardening was published by MIT Press in 1997; she is now working on a book about the art, architecture, and landscape architecture critic Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer to be published by the University of Virginia Press in 2011.

This lecture and exhibit are funded by the K-State Student Fine Arts fee. Attendance at the lecture can be submitted as continuing education credit for design professionals by contacting Diane Potts.

For more information, contact:
Stephanie Rolley, 785.532.5961
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090