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Three thought-provoking scholars  explore unique aspects of Brazilian modernist Roberto Burle Marx-the visionary landscape architect and conservationist whose bold aesthetic fused nature, culture, history, and art into landscapes he hoped could change cities and society.

After the morning session visit NYBG's major exhibition, Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx.

Speakers
Bruno Carvalho is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, Affiliate Professor at the Graduate School of Design, and co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. His research and teaching interests range from the early modern period to the present, and include literature, culture, and the built environment, with focus on Brazil. He is an award-winning author and has published widely on topics related to poetry, film, architecture, cartography, city planning, environmental justice, race and racism. A Rio de Janeiro native, Carvalho previously taught at Princeton University (2009-2018).

Gareth Doherty is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Programs at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Doherty's research and teaching focus on the intersections between landscape architecture and anthropology. Doherty's recent research projects have centered on landscape-related practices at various sites across the postcolonial and Islamic worlds, specifically in the Arabian peninsula, West Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Doherty's books include Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism (Lars Muller Publishers, 2018), and Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State (University of California Press, 2017).

Luisa Valle is a doctoral candidate in Art History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on Latin American architecture and its implications for art production from the region, with a special interest in the local, national, and global contexts of modernism. She has published articles on Mary Vieira and concretism, Roberto Burle Marx and the synthesis of the arts, and on Thomas Hirschorn's Gramsci Monument. Currently, she is finishing her dissertation entitled "The Beehive, the Favela, the Mangrove, and the Castle: Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1885-1945." She has received several fellowships, including an Avery Foundation/The Bronx Museum of the Arts Curatorial Fellowship, and has taught art and architectural history at the City College of New York and Hunter College.

Presented by The Humanities Institute
Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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Schedule:	Friday, September 13, 2019
Times:	11:00am-12:30pm EDT
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Speaker:	Bruno Carvalho Bruno Carvalho Bruno Carvalho Bruno Carvalho's research and teaching interests range from the early modern period to the present, and include literature, culture, and the built environment, with focus on Brazil. He has published widely on topics related to poetry, film, architecture, cartography, city planning, environmental justice, race and racism. A Rio de Janeiro native, Carvalho received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University (2009) and taught at Princeton University between 2009-2018. His Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro (2013) won the Brazilian Studies Association Roberto Reis Book Award in 2014. Currently, he is working on Partial Enlightenments: Race, Cities, and Nature in the Luso-Brazilian Eighteenth Century, and Imagined Futures: Urban Visions Revisited, on how different designers, writers and artists imagined urban futures. To learn more about Professor Carvalho, read this recent interview. Luisa Valle Luisa Valle Luisa Valle Luisa Valle is a doctoral candidate in Art History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research focuses on Latin American architecture and its implications for art production from the region, with a special interest in the local, national, and global contexts of modernism. She has published articles on Mary Vieira and concretism, Roberto Burle Marx and the synthesis of the arts, and on Thomas Hirschorn's Gramsci Monument. Currently, she is finishing her dissertation entitled "The Beehive, the Favela, the Mangrove, and the Castle: Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1885-1945." She has received several fellowships, including an Avery Foundation/The Bronx Museum of the Arts Curatorial Fellowship, and has taught art and architectural history at the City College of New York and Hunter College. Gareth Doherty Gareth Doherty Gareth Doherty Gareth Doherty, assistant professor of landscape architecture and senior research associate, has been appointed the Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture program. Doherty received a Doctor of Design degree from the GSD in 2010 and received his Master of Landscape Architecture and Certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned masters and undergraduate degrees from University College Dublin. Gareth Doherty's research and teaching focus on the intersections between landscape architecture, urbanism, and anthropology. His newest book, Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State, was published in 2017 by the University of California Press. Previous publications include Is Landscape.? Essays on the Identity of Landscape, edited with Charles Waldheim (Routledge, 2016); and Ecological Urbanism, edited with Mohsen Mostafavi, (Lars M?ller Publishers, 2010, and revised in 2016), which has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese, with Arabic and Persian editions in process. Doherty is a founding editor of the New Geographies journal and editor-in-chief of New Geographies 3: Urbanisms of Color.
Location:	NYBG, Ross Lecture Hall 2900 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10458
Session Number:	201LAN905
Price:	Lecture : $0.00

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