JB Jackson Conference

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>Subject: JB Jackson Conference
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>J.B. JACKSON AND AMERICAN LANDSCAPE
>Conference
>
>The University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning will host
>a conference on J.B. Jackson and American Landscape October 1 - 4, 1998 in
>Albuquerque. The conference will provide a unique opportunity for an
>interdisciplinary assessment of the future of cultural landscape studies,
>in addition to an evaluation of Jacksons ideas and impact.
>
>The breadth of Jacksons interests and impacts on a wide variety of fields
>is reflected in the featured conference speakers, who range from
>anthropologist of body language Edward T. Hall and blue highways explorer
>William Least Heat-Moon, to historians Helen Horowitz, Patricia Nelson
>Limerick, and Gwendolyn Wright, and journalists Grady Clay and Joel
>Garreau ; to geographer Peirce Lewis and to landscape architect Robert
>Riley, and architects Denise Scott Brown, Jeffery Limerick, Marc Treib,
>and Antoine
>Predock.
>
>The conference has been structured to provide opportunities for
>participation in open paper sessions, small group and panel discussions.
>
>An optional field trip will visit some of the first cultural landscapes
>Jackson explored, including his home village of La Cienega, as well as the
>kind of exuberant contemporary developments he relished in the
>Intel-driven company boom town of Rio Rancho.
>
>For conference information contact Architecture Program, Attn. JB Jackson
>Conference, School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico,
>Albuquerque, N.M. 87131. E-mail: schreib@xxxxxxx. Phone: (505) 277-2903.
>FAX: (505) 277-0076.
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