March 21, 2017 – Shannon Nichol is the 2017 John R. Bracken Lecturer and Exhibitor at the Penn State Department of Landscape Architecture.
The exhibit of Shannon’s process drawings, titled “Repair Works,” is open today, March 21 at the Stuckeman School's Rouse Gallery. The exhibit features two projects, Lower Rainier Vista & Pedestrian Land Bridge at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA and the Lurie Garden at Millennium Park in Chicago, IL. Free to the public, the gallery is open from 9am – 4pm each weekday, and the exhibit will run through the end of May.
The lecture, to be delivered on Wednesday, March 22 from 6:00 – 8:00pm at the Stuckeman Jury Space, will build on the “Repair Works” theme of the exhibit. “GGN is particularly interested in design work that does not bestow a novel layer of design onto a clean-slate site, but, instead, strategically repairs a ‘messy and broken’ transitional space in a city,” says Shannon. “Novel solutions can be found by fixing the old, in situ systems and designs of a highly altered site.”
The Penn State Department of Landscape Architecture lecture series, which began in the spring of 1982, honors Dr. Bracken, who was among the first to graduate from Penn State with an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture. Dr. Bracken served as department head from 1924 to 1957 and active professor emeritus until 1979.
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