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Mark Laird Senior Lecturer Department of Landscape Architecture |
Profile
| Mark Laird is Senior Lecturer in the History of Landscape Architecture. He teaches courses and seminars in landscape architectural history, including: History of Modern Gardens and Public Landscapes:1700-1950 and The History of Horticulture in Landscape Architecture. Laird lives in Toronto, Canada. As a consultant in historic landscape preservation, he advises on sites in Europe and North America. Recent projects include: Hestercome and Gibside in England, Fürst-Pückler Park in Germany, the Belvederegarten and SchloßHof in Austria, Rideau Hall, Parkwood, and the Halifax Public Gardens in Canada. For his replanting work at Painshill Park, where he is Associate Director, Laird was joint recipient of a 1998 Europa Nostra medal for exemplary restoration. Inspired by his practice, his research on eighteenth-century planting culminated in the publication of The Flowering of the Landscape Garden (1999). Using watercolor reconstructions to complement textual analysis, Laird has also published extensively in the Journal of Garden History and Die Gartenkunst. The essays span the history of horticulture from the Baroque to the Picturesque, as well as preservation philosophy and practice. Laird was educated at the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, and York. Twice a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, he has worked as a historian at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London and he has taught at the University of Toronto. |