Marc Treib, Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, will present a free public lecture at the University of Melbourne this Friday evening titled “The Landscapes of Isamu Noguchi: The Garden as Sculpture.”
According to Treib, “Probably no figure in modern American landscape architecture has been more influential, yet more ambiguously regarded, than the sculptor Isamu Noguchi.”
“Noguchi took landscape design primarily as a spatial and formal art, and from his earliest projects in the 1930s to the works of later maturity, he succeeded in conceiving and constructing a series of remarkable places.”
Treib is a landscape and architectural historian who has published widely on modern and historical subjects in the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia. He is the author of Noguchi in Paris: Isamu Noguchi and the Unesco Garden; his most recent books are Austere Gardens and Pietro Porcinai and the Landscape of Modern Italy (co-edited with Luigi Latini), both published in 2016.
When: 6pm - 7pm, 14th October
Where: B117 Theatre, basement level, MSD
