Zube Lecture Series Fall 2023
Thursdays, DB 170 @ 4:00 pm ET
All lectures will be held in 170 Design Building unless otherwise noted.
551 North Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002
All information surrounding Zube dates & times are accurate among this webpage listing.
9/07
The Future of Urbanism is Democratic
Joel Mills
Senior Director for Design Assistance at the Architects Foundation.
9/14
Evolutionary Infrastructure
Christian Gabriel, FASLA
Creative Director + Founder at Public Nature Projects
9/21
Storytelling Ideation and AI: Photomontage as a Creative Catalyst in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
Blake Belanger, PLA, ASLA
Associate Professor, Kansas State University, Landscape Architecture & Regional & Community Planning
9/28
Strategies for Promoting Shared Micromobility to Complement Public Transit
Xiang 'Jacob' Yan
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida
10/05
Concepts in Translation
Simon Bussiere
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Hawaii
*Wednesday, 10/11
Minerva Parker Exhibit Panel Discussion
Molly Lester and Bill Witaker
Reception
10/26
Tough Sites: A Manifesto for Ugly Duckling Landscapes
Julie Bargmann
Founder of D.I.R.T. Studio, Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia
11/02
Housing Justice in the Weeds: The Complications of Reducing Housing Poverty and Insecurity through Subsidized Housing in the Context of Racial Concentration and Exclusion
Revel Sims
Assistant Professor of Housing and Community Development, University of Winsconsin, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture
11/09
Landscape Design:Build:Maintain
Matthew Benzie, ASLA, ISA Certified Arborist ©
Owner, Indigenous Ingenuities
11/16
African Landscape Architecture
Gareth Doherty, ASLA
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
11/30
Developing Local Resilience through Community Production Centers Anchored by Digital Fabrication
Blair Evans
Founder and Director, Incite Focus
The Zube lecture series is named for Erv Zube, former head of LARP from 1974 to 1980. Professor Zube is internationally known for his leadership in developing a culture of academic research in the profession of landscape architecture. His research made numerous seminal contributions to landscape planning theory and practice. Erv left UMass for the University of Arizona, where he continued his renowned research and teaching until he passed away in 2001.
Erv and his wife Margaret endowed at UMass in 2004 to “bring scholars to the department to stimulate and enrich our academic community in landscape architecture and planning." The Zube endowment has been supported generously by alumni, students and faculty.
We honor their leadership and generosity through the lecture series which continues to enrich our community with the thoughts and works of local, national and international academic and professional leaders. The department is pleased to accept donations of any amount to continue to build and enlarge the endowment.
Please check LARP Public Calendar for previous Zube Lecture series.
Fall 2022 Spring 2022 Fall 2021 Spring 2021 Fall 2020 Spring 2020 Fall 2019
Spring 2019 Fall 2018 Spring 2018 Fall 2017 Spring 2017 Fall 2016 Spring 2016
Fall 2015 Spring 2015 Fall 2014 Spring 2014 Fall 2013