Don Miskell of Boffa Miskell in New Zealand gives this annual Landscape Architecture address Nov. 12 at 5 p.m., in Room 1040 of the Dana Building. He will explore plans for the redesign and rebuilding of Christchurch, New Zealand's second-laregest urban area.
On Nov. 9, M. Elen Deming will deliver the Clarence Roy/JJR lecture, also part of the Dean's Speaker Series. "This talk is for anyone who is struggling with a thesis," she said. A few years ago, M. Elen Deming and Simon Swaffield, both professors of landscape architecture, found themselves editing two of only four English-language scholarly peer-reviewed journals in the field of landscape architecture. The two found themselves playing the role of gatekeeper for the discipline and, in working with a range of peer reviewers, found widely varying standards for evaluating research. Some reviewers championed deductive investigations, others inductive; some only accepted objective work, while others favored subjective artistic work.