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Graduate School of Design
48 Quincy Street
Gund Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138

Past Exhibitions

One Hundred Years of Landscape Architecture   1 2 3 4

April 3 - April 27, 2000

Organized in conjunction with the celebration of the centennial of the nation’s first department of landscape architecture, these two concurrent exhibitions addressed the department’s illustrious past and the profession’s promise for the future. “Our Heritage,” organized by George Hargreaves, chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Eric Kramer, MLA ’99, is based on the research of Melanie Simo and charted significant moments in the department’s history, which were often directly linked to significant developments for landscape architecture as a profession. “Imagining Futures,” organized by John Beardsley, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, focused on the work of artists and landscape architects who are looking at the landscape in new and interesting ways. For the exhibition, Beardsley commissioned two site-specific installations for the GSD grounds. Mara Scrupe installed three solar-heated self-sustaining “minivan greenhouses” in the GSD garden and the Detroit-based artist Tyree Guyton worked with local middle- and high- school students to create a new urban landscape around Gund Hall and the Cambridge and Quincy Street intersection. The landscape centennial and its related exhibitions received extensive press coverage nationwide.