| Thursday, October 21
10:00 a.m.
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| Mr. Bergmann’s lecture will be based on two Chinese garden study trips he took in 2007 and 2008. He observed that while westerners plant their gardens, the Chinese build them.
The Chinese garden is usually taken up by structures such as bridges, walkways and viewing pavilions, with no sense of ending as in the western gardens. Chinese landscape utilizes techniques of manipulating space and light, revealing and concealing. With its tight spaces, sudden angles and cutout vistas; The Chinese garden is between architecture and landscape painting. These are some of the lessons Dick Bergmann learned from Chinese gardens in shaping spatial illusions to create a varied landscape in the residential suburban garden.
Mr. Bergmann is trained in both architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Illinois, Cornell and the New York Botanical Gardens where he has been an on-going lecturer as well. |
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