Past Lectures

11/13/2024
The Seventh Bardo
Beth Lilly
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10/16/2024
The Power of Perception: Understanding Urban Design and the Human Mind Through Virtual Reality
Jessica Fernandez
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09/25/2024
How Conservation Horticulture Has Helped Preserve Imperiled Plant Species in the Southeastern United States
Jennifer Cruse-Sanders
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04/17/2024
Work in Progress: Aerials of Construction Sites in Atlanta
Peter Essick
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03/27/2024
The Guiding Principles: Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Influence on Federal Architecture
Katie Marages
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03/20/2024
Future Memories of Place
Kofi Boone
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03/19/2024
Can Fashion Be Sustainable?
Sanni Baumgärtner
Coming Soon

03/13/2024
Insights from the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice
Cari Goetcheus, James Reap, Liz Sargent
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02/27/2024
The Ethical Considerations of Permanent Land Protection
Steffney R. Thompson, Christine McCauley Watts
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02/21/2024
Worlding Through Urbanism: Tourist Guidebooks, Urban Projects, and the Global City
Brent Ryan
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11/20/2023
In Search of Identity: Bulgarian Postwar and Postsocialist Architecture
Aneta Vasileva
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11/14/2023
Rivercane: Cultural Workhorse and Ecological Powerhouse
David Cozzo
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10/24/2023
Rebirth of the American Chestnut as a Dominant Forest Species in Eastern North America
Scott Merkle
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10/12/2023
Architecture of the Last Colony
Mark McDonald
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10/11/2023
Georgia’s Fallen Giants: Celebrating American Chestnuts Through Scale, Sculpture, and Whimsy
Cameron Berglund
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10/04/2023
Making Humanity Urban: The Second Urban Revolution
Robert Fishman
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10/02/2023
Sustainability in the Built Environment
Joe Rozza
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09/27/2023
Landscape and Memory
Sierra Bainbridge
Coming Soon

09/15/2023
How to get an Article Published in a Top Journal
Dr. John Drake, Dr. Galen Newman, Dr. Jeff Hepinstall-Cymerman, Dr. Stephen Ramos, Dr. Marshall Shepherd
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04/12/2023
A World Cast in Concrete: How the US Built its Empire
Vyta Pivo
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04/05/2023
From Pathways to Partnership – Public Health and Landscape Architecture
Donnie Longenecker
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03/27/2023
Valuing Water, Culture, and Heritage
Carola Hein
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03/22/2023
Vegetated Roof Adoption in an Urbanizing World
James Schulte
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02/28/2023
Young People’s Right to the City
Adina Cox, Mariela Fernandez, Sarah Little, Katherine Melcher, Juan Torres
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02/16/2023
From Mobility to Accessibility: Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning
Jonathan Levine
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02/08/2023
The Infrastructure of Design: Reflections on the Creative Process
Matt Cherry
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01/25/2023
Ship Sounding: Waterway, Port City and Hinterland
Stephen Ramos
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11/15/2022
Land Rights and Climate Change in Cities of the Global South
Ellen Bassett
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11/01/2022
Forests as Fuel: Energy, Landscape, Race, and Climate in the U.S. South
Sarah Hitchner, John Schelhas
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10/24/2022
Thinking Big? On Size and Scale in (Geo)design
Carl Steinitz
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10/19/2022
Cultural Landscapes and the Role of African Design Philosophy in the Built Environment
Nmadili Okwumabua
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10/14/2022
How to Publish a Book with a Reputable Press: A Panel on Academic Publishing
Beth Clevenger, Nate Holly, Michael McGandy, Tim Mennel
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09/20/2022
Learning to LEED: Ecolabels, Innovation, and Green Market Transformation
Daniel Matisoff
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08/31/2022
Ruins and the Role of Water in Creating and Preserving the Anatolian Urban Landscape, 100-600 AD
Ron Sawhill
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04/18/2022
On the Swamp: Indigenous Erasure, Environmental Justice, and the Transformation of North Carolina’s Coastal Plain
Ryan Emmanuel
N/A

04/12/2022
Collaboratively Creating an Illustrated Storybook About Indigenous Wounaan and Birds: Storying, Weaving, and Polishing
Julie Velasquez Runk, Frankie Grin
N/A

04/08/2022
The Meaning of Olmsted – A Bicentennial Conversation
Lucy Lawliss, Spencer Tunnell, Bill Mann
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04/06/2022
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Reconstruction South
Scott Nesbit
N/A

03/29/2022
Designing and Planning Cities to Foster Inclusion
Diane Davis
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03/24/2022
Design for a Living World: Reconnecting Planning, Design and Public Health for Resilient Cities
Joyce Klein Rosenthal
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03/22/2022
Human Impacts on Wildlife Populations
James Beasley
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03/01/2022
Writing About Unique Landscapes and Places Through Immersion, Reporting, and Research
Holly Haworth
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02/09/2022
Geospatial Technologies in Environmental Planning and Design: Past, Present and Future
Rosanna Rivero
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02/08/2022
Socio-ecological Implications of Aging and Obsolete Wastewater Infrastructure
Krista Capps
N/A

12/02/2021
Readings from “Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans”
Janisse Ray
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11/17/2021
Catching the Bullet: The Mystery of Mastery
Adam Gopnik
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11/16/2021
Local and Regional Policy Efforts for Equitable Sea Level Rise Adaptation
Tybee Island Local Government Leadership Panel
Shirley Sessions
Shawn Gillen
Alan Robertson
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11/10/2021
Aesthetic Confessions: Questioning Taste in Landscape Architecture
Katherine Melcher
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10/26/2021
History and Transformation of Athens’ Hot Corner
Scott Nesbit
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09/29/2021
Teaching Design Thinking
Madlen Simon
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09/28/2021
Environmental Leadership: Hope, Women Workers, and Small Business in Haiti
Christine Cuomo
N/A

09/15/2021
Book Release: “Beauty of the Wild” by Darrel Morrison
A Talk and Book-Signing by the Author
Darrel Morrison
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09/14/2021
Designed Landscapes Inspired by Native Plant Communities
Darrel Morrison
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08/25/2021
The Place to Be: Evaluating People and the Environment through Social Media Data
Dr. Jessica Fernandez
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04/20/2021
Advancing Locally-Led Climate Adaptation through Collective Impact Water Management
Jenny Hoffner
N/A

04/14/2021
Learning from Jane Jacobs’s “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” Sixty Years Later
Sonia Hirt
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04/13/2021
Virtual screening and conversation with Dorinda Dallmeyer, Producer of Cultivating the Wild: William Bartram’s Travels
Dorinda Dallmeyer
Link coming soon

03/30/2021
The Montology of Community-Based Conservation: Earth Ethics in Tropandean Mountainscapes
Fausto Sarmiento
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03/17/2021
Environmental Issues of Cultural Heritage
Cari Goetcheus
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03/09/2021
Future Beyond Refining
Bethany Wiggin
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03/03/2021
Why Old Places Matter: Heritage, Belonging, and Place
Tom Mayes
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02/23/2021
From the Everglades to Regenerative Organic Agriculture, the Need for Stakeholder Involvement in Conservation
Kristie Wendelberger
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02/03/2021
Learning from Robert Venturi’s “Learning from Las Vegas”
José Buitrago
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12/02/2020
Roberto Burle Marx: Landscape as Art and Urbanism
Book Presentation and Lecture Panel Discussants: Darrel Morrison and Ian Firth; Moderator: Stephen Ramos
Gareth Doherty
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11/11/2020
Delicious Terror! Gothic Landscapes in Literature, the Arts and Popular Culture
Shelley Cannady
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11/10/2020
CSI: Dixie – Investigating the Environmental and Social Justice of Death in the Nineteenth Century South
Stephen Berry
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10/27/2020
The Ethics of Rare Plant Conservation
Jennifer Ceska
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10/14/2020
Georgia’s Equalization Schools, 1950-70
Dan Nadenicek
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10/13/2020
Aldo Leopold: Manager or Moralist?
Piers Stephens
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03/04/2020
The Art of Conservation
Philip Juras
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02/26/2020
Biophilic Cities: Design for Planetary Health and Human Flourishing
Tim Beatley
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02/12/2020
American Land Use Regulation in Comparative Perspective
Sonia Hirt
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01/15/2020
The Sustainable University Campus: Experiences from Honduras
Jack Crowley
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11/13/2019
Landscape and Urban Design for People of All Ages and Abilities
Jack Carman
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11/12/2019
Science-Enabled Policy and Disaster Response – Lessons from the Deepwater Herizon
Samantha Joye
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10/25/2019
Kodachrome Commerce Symposium: “1950s-70s Downtown Commercial Revitalization: The Physical Imprint and Legacy”
Adrian Scott Fine
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10/25/2019
Kodachrome Commerce Symposium: “The Bold and the Exaggerated: Roadside Architecture of Route 66 in California”
Chad Moffett and Liz Boye
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10/25/2019
Kodachrome Commerce Symposium: “Roadside Landscapes: Effective Connections & Interpretation”
Aaron Marcavitch
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10/25/2019
Kodachrome Commerce Symposium: “Fillin’ Up Your Tank: Mid-Century Service Stations”
Jamee Fiore
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10/25/2019
Kodachrome Commerce Symposium: “The Open Front: Midcentury Commercial Design, Assemblies, & Materials”
Carol Dyson
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10/25/2019
Kodachrome Commerce Symposium: “Surveying Modernist Architecture in Charlotte, North Carolina”
Susan V. Mayer
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10/25/2019
“Dipped Cones, Sundaes, and Mix-Ins: Ice Cream Stands of the Postwar Era”
Emily Pettis and Tim Smith
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10/25/2019
Kodachrome Commerce Symposium: “3M Center: The Idea Factory”
Sebastian Renfield
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10/25/2019
Kodachrome Commerce Symposium: “Form Follows Function: The Innovative Architecture of Jack in the Box”
Margaret Roderick
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10/17/2019
Urban Soil Design and Climate Change in the Southeast
Barrett Kays
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10/01/2019
Preserving Global Cultural Heritage in Times of War and Conflict
Irina Bokova
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08/28/2019
Ecological Planting Design: Strategies for Southeastern Landscapes
Brad Davis
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04/24/2019
Wellsprings of Design Thinking in Landscape Architecture
Marianne Cramer
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04/10/2019
The Reconstruction of Southern Landscape
Scott Nesbit
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04/09/2019
Port City Features
Carola Hein
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03/28/2019
Field Forest Flora: Exhibit Opening and Gallery Talk
Susan McAlister
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03/27/2019
Collecting Streets
David Spooner
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03/25/2019
Ten Newish Things in Digital Design
Stephen Ervin
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03/07/2019
Restoring the Future
Keith Bowers
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02/27/2019
Seeking Sacred Spaces: The Influence of Landscape Architects on the American University Campus
John Anderson
N/A

02/13/2019
Landscapes of Postmodernity: Changes in the Fabric of Central-East European Cities 1990-2000
Sonia Hirt
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01/23/2019
Reconstructing Historic Landmarks: Fabrication, Negotiation, and the Past
Wayde Brown
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01/16/2019
The New American Garden – The Landscape Architecture of Oehme, van Sweden
Eric Groft
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11/14/2018
Using GeoDesign to Tame Wicked Problems
Brian Orland
N/A

10/24/2018
Who Owns the Past? Competing Cleims for Antiquities from the Holy Land
Morag Kersel
N/A

10/17/2018
Panel Discussion on Affordable Housing Supported by HGOR; Panelists: Casey Dawkins, John Goff, Cecil Philips, Matt Samuelson, Denise Starling
Moderator: Bob Hughes
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10/05/2018
The Ray
Allie Kelly
N/A

09/07/2018
Neel Reid Memorial Lecture – When the Garden Club of America Comes to Town: Atlanta 1932
Spencer Tunnell
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03/07/2018
James Rose, a Voice Offstage
Dean Cardasis
N/A

10/11/2017
HGOR Lecture – Values and Process: The Evolving Work of Nelson Byrd Woltz
Warren Byrd and Thomas Woltz
N/A

09/13/2017
Vincent Ferguson Lecture – Resilience
Stephanie Stuckey Benfield
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05/2017
Graduation
Steve Nygren
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04/21/2017
Annual Neel Reid Lecture – Sponsored by the Peachtree Garden Club
Allan Armitage
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03/23/2017
Landscape, Remembrance, and Healing
Rich Panico
N/A

02/16/2017
Cities, Nature, and Health: How Can Biophilic Design Build Human Well-Being?
Jenny Roe
N/A

02/02/2017
Planting in a Post-Wild World
Thomas Rainer
N/A

01/19/2017
Movie and Lecture on Frederick Law Olmsted
Laurence Cotton
N/A

01/12/2017
State of the College Address
Dan Nadenicek
N/A

10/27/2016
Vincent Ferguson Lecture
Angel David Nieves
N/A

09/29/2016
President-elect of the ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects)
Vaughn Rinner
N/A

03/16/2016
Alumnae Leaders in Landscape Architecture
Missy Madden, Katherine Bridges, Chris Hite, Anne Daigh
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02/25/2016
Vincent Ferguson Lecture – Now Urbanism: Design with the Present City
Jeffrey Hou
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10/22/2015
Vincent Ferguson Lecture – Vision and Meaning on Medieval Iberia’s Frontier: Multiple-scale Modeling of Contested Spaces
Ed Triplett
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10/10/2015
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession
Andrea Wulf
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09/25/2015
The Ecology, Design, and Management of Sustainable Meadow and Praire Plantings
James Hitchmough
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09/04/2015
Student Involvement in ASLA and GSLA
K. Richard (Dick) Zweifel
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09/03/2015
The City is a Landscape: Empathy, Design, and the Space Between Buildings
David Rubin
N/A

03/01/2013
Landscape as Infrastructure: Towards an Ecological Urbanism
Nina-Marie Lister
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02/21/2013
The Poetics and Politics of Infrastructure
Brian Larkin
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01/23/2013
The Changing Role of Planting Design in Chinese Landscape Architecture
Li Dong
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11/14/2012
Ecological Infrastructure: Framing the World as a Work of Art
Patricia Johanson
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10/04/2012
Beautiful Big Feet: Toward a New Landscape Aesthetic
Kongjian Yu
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08/30/2012
Memory Infrastructure
Randal Mason
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03/10/2011
Cultural Reinvention in Germany’s Ruhr District: The Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord / Co-Sponsored by UGA Germanic and Slavic Studies
Kagel and Hemmings
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02/03/2011
Dean Hill
Dean Hill
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11/11/2010
Witold Rybczynski
Witold Rybczynski
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10/12/2010
Global Trends in Heritage Conservation: Adapting to a New Reality
Gustavo Araoz
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09/15/2010
Sample Works
Vladimir Djurovic
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