Bracken Lecture In Landscape Architecture, April 3

3-27-97

University Park, Pa. -- Carol R. Johnson, chairman and president of Carol R. Johnson Associates Inc., Cambridge, Mass., and 1996-97 Bracken Fellow, will conclude this year's John R. Bracken Lecture Series. The lecture, "Variety in Landscape Architecture," is scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the Colonial Room at the Nittany Lion Inn. The Bracken Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture of the College of Arts and Architecture.

For the past 37 years, Johnson has maintained a diversified professional practice in the areas of landscape architecture and site planning. The firm specializes in site development, open space and recreation planning, master planning and urban development for municipalities, schools, colleges and universities, corporations and public agencies.

Under Johnson's supervision, firm design projects have received a number of design awards. Johnson received her bachelor of arts from Wellesley College and attended Harvard University, where she received her master in landscape architecture. Between 1966 and 1973, Johnson taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

A reception and the presentation of the Bracken medal will be held after the lecture. The lecture is free to the public.

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Contacts: Alan Janesch (814) 865-7517 (office) axj12@psu.edu
Christy Rambeau (814) 865-7517 (office) cmr7@psu.edu