Myles H. Thaler Lecture
Myles H. Thaler (LArch, '73) was a member of the first graduating class of the department of landscape architecture at the School of Architecture. A native of Baltimore, at the time of his death in 1992, Mr. Thaler directed the buildings and grounds division of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. For much of his career, he had been administrator of the Naval Observatory, as well as maintained a private practice.
In 1990, Mr. Thaler endowed a perpetual lecture fund with the following intent: "The purpose of the fund is to bring to the School of Architecture nationally prominent scholars and practitioners to give public presentations on the subject of 'the meaning of the garden,' in order to expand public awareness of the cultural significance throughout history of gardens both public and private."
He also designed and built a meditation garden at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center.
Lecturers
| 2008 | · | Tomas Saxgård and Ingbritt Liljekvist, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2008 | · | Christophe Girot, Switzerland |
| 2006 | · | Kongjian Yu, Peking, China |
| 2005 | · | Craig Verzone and Cristina Woods, Switzerland and Barcelona, Spain |
| 2004 | · | Michael Van Valkenburgh, New York, New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 2003 | · | Denis Cosgrove, Los Angeles, California |
| 2002 | · | Ken Smith, New York, New York |
| 2001 | · | Beth Gali, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2000 | · | Cornelia Oberlander, Vancouver, British Columbia |
| 1999 | · | Kathryn Gustafson, Seattle, Washington and London, England |
| 1998 | · | Peter and Anneliese Latz, Munich, Germany |
| 1997 | · | Mario Schjetnan, Colonia Condesa, Mexico |
| 1996 | · | Adriaan Geuze, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 1994 | · | Martha Schwartz, Cambridge, Massachussetts |
| 1992 | · | Roberto Burle-Marx, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 1990 | · | Ian McHarg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |