Japanese Garden Lecture Series
Join us throughout the year for our 2010 Japanese Garden Lecture Series, featuring top experts in the fields of gardening, horticulture, and Japanese garden design and architecture. All lectures will be held in the Garden Pavilion.
Botond Bognar — New Currents in Japanese Architecture
Botond Bognar: New Currents in Japanese Architecture
Botond Bognar
Thursday, October 21
5:30pm in the Garden Pavilion
$10 for members, $15 for non-members
Reserve online or Call (503) 542-0280
The Garden is honored to present a lecture on new directions in Japanese architecture by Professor Botand Bognar, the Edgar A. Tafel Chair in Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Born in Budapest, he is the pre-eminent international scholar on the history and theories of contemporary Japanese architecture and urbanism. A licensed architect, Professor Bognar is the author of numerous authoritative books on Japan’s top 20th and 21st century architects, architectural history and Japanese aesthetics.
A booksigning will follow the lecture.
