{"id":62953,"date":"2010-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-landscape-architecture-lecture-series-continues-april-1\/"},"modified":"2010-03-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T00:00:00","slug":"uri-landscape-architecture-lecture-series-continues-april-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/uri-landscape-architecture-lecture-series-continues-april-1\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Landscape Architecture Lecture Series continues April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 25, 2010 \u2013 The University of Rhode Island\u2019s Landscape Architecture Lecture Series continues on April 1 with a lecture by Will Green, URI professor of landscape architecture.  His talk on \u201cContext and Sustainability: The Role Context Plays in Determining Opportunities, Expectations and Outcomes in South Africa and Australia\u201d begins at 7 p.m. in Weaver Auditorium in the Coastal Institute building on the URI Kingston campus.  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nGreen joined the URI faculty in 1992 and has focused his research and teaching on sustainable design practices.  In his senior design studios, he advises students on sustainable design projects for communities and non-profit agencies, including those for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Knowles Mill Park in Richmond, and a sustainable transportation corridor in South Kingstown.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHe spent a sabbatical in 2009 exploring sustainable design in South Africa and Australia, which he will discuss in his lecture.  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cIt was while visiting sites and speaking with designers that I realized how important culture and social conditions were as determinants of what was appropriate and achievable,\u201d Green said.  \u201cSustainable design does not come in one flavor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nGreen has won awards from the Rhode Island chapters of the American Planning Association and the American Society of Landscape Architects.  He serves on the URI Master Plan Technical Advisory Committee and the URI President\u2019s Council on Sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe final speaker in the Landscape Architecture Lecture Series is Barbara Faga of the international design firm AECOM on April 22 at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe URI Landscape Architecture series is co-sponsored by the College of the Environment and Life Sciences, the Rhode Island chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association, and Gates Leighton &amp; Associates.  For more information about the series, contact the URI Department of Landscape Architecture at 874-2983 or Professor Will Green at wagre@uri.edu.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 25, 2010 \u2013 The University of Rhode Island\u2019s Landscape Architecture Lecture Series continues on April 1 with a lecture by Will Green, URI professor of landscape architecture. His talk on \u201cContext and Sustainability: The Role Context Plays in Determining Opportunities, Expectations and Outcomes in South Africa and Australia\u201d begins at 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}