Great Parks Great Cities lecture May 13, 2008

Galen Cranz

Professor of Architecture,
University of California at Berkeley



Tuesday, May 13

Location: First Congregational Church on the South Park Blocks, 1126 SW Park Ave. Doors open at 6:15 PM; presentation at 7:15 PM.





Professor Cranz teaches courses in the social and cultural bases of architectural and urban design. She studies the body and the near-environment, the office of the future, environmental sociology, and the sociology of parks.



She is the author of The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design and The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America. She is a Kellog National leadership fellow and has received two Graham Foundation grants. She has also been in design teams awarded First Prize in a national competition for an inner-city park for St. Paul, First Prize for Parc La Villette, Paris, and Seventh Place in the Spectacle Island Design Competition, Boston, and has served as juror for several urban design and public art competitions.

Official Website: http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/index.cfm?c=46353