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2024 Spring Lecture Series: Alexandre Champagne, Yufan Gao, and Adam Molinski

Landscape Dialogues at the BAC


Date

April 03, 2024

Time

6:00 p.m.

Location

Cascieri Hall

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Cost

FREE

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Qianyun Wei, BLA'21, thesis project.

Core faculty members of the BAC School of Landscape Architecture, Alexandre Champagne, Yufan Gao, and Adam Molinski, will share the unusual paths that led them to the field of landscape architecture. They will discuss how their backgrounds in film, architecture, textiles, finance, and philosophy have shaped their perspectives and approaches to the field. The presentation seeks to transcend conventional notions of landscape architecture in order to inquire into the very essence of the landscape. By examining landscape architecture from a diverse set of perspectives, this conversation aims to broaden our understanding of what landscape architecture can encompass.

Date

April 03, 2024

Time

6:00 p.m.

Location

Cascieri Hall

For More Info

communications@the-bac.edu

Cost

FREE

Categories

Events   Lecture  

Watch the Lecture Now

Watch the Lecture Now

About Alexandre Champagne

Alexandre Champagne, Ph.D.
Alexandre Champagne, Ph.D.

Alexandre Champagne, Ph.D., is a full-time core faculty member in the School of Landscape Architecture at the BAC.  He holds a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MLA from Cornell University. Before pursuing his education in the United States, he was a financial analyst at the Banque de France in Paris. He interned at Peter Walker and Partners (Berkeley, CA) and worked briefly at Michel Desvigne Paysagiste (Paris, France) before co-founding the firm Aire d’essai (Los Angeles, CA) in 2004. Based on choreographies of tailored individual and collective practices, his projects have been mini laboratories in which to experiment with ideas of communality, wellbeing, and education. His research addresses urban challenges and how professional involvement could have broader impacts on social well-being by relying on an applied-philosophy approach guided by interdisciplinary perspectives.

About Yufan Gao

Yufan Gao.
Yufan Gao, PLA, ASLA.

Yufan Gao, PLA, ASLA, is a full-time core faculty member in the School of Landscape Architecture at the BAC.  She holds an MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Textiles from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Cornell University. Yufan practiced at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and Mikyoung Kim Design before co-founding the independent practice, Studio Gao-Byun. Their studio explores the nuances in the relationships between nature and non-nature, landscape and architecture, with close attention to the trace of time that shapes a place. Her current teaching and research focus on the discourse surrounding landscape aesthetics and how we perceive, interpret, and conceptualize our natural and built environments.

About Adam Molinski

Adam Molinski.
Adam Molinski, PLA, ASLA.

Adam Molinski, PLA, ASLA, is a full-time core faculty member in the School of Landscape Architecture at the BAC.  He teaches planting design, landscape architecture research courses, and design studios. His research and teaching focuses on the role of plants in urban landscapes and how we perceive landscapes from a multi-sensory perspective. Adam has worked across multiple disciplines including art, film, architecture, and landscape architecture. Most recently, he worked for Hargreaves Jones in New York City on large-scale public projects including the recently completed 5.7-acre Carpenter Park in Dallas, TX as project manager. Adam holds an MLA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Film from Boston University.