Philadelphia Designer To Give First 1997-98 Bracken Lecture

8-29-97
University Park, Pa. -- Jon Coe, principal and founder of CLR Design Inc., Philadelphia, and 1997-98 Bracken Fellow, will kick off this year's John R. Bracken Lecture Series. The lecture, "Practice at the Edge," is scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, in the Regency Room at the Atherton Hotel in State College. The Bracken Lecture is sponsored by the College of Arts and Architecture's Department of Landscape Architecture.

A landscape architect with extensive experience in planning, landscape and exhibit design, Coe also is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. With more than 30 years of intense focus on zoo design, he is an expert on animal habitats and related botany. Coe has led many institutions to adopt innovative approaches involving animal behavioral enrichment. He continues to publish numerous articles on exhibit design and theory while designing and building exhibits for zoos and aquariums, nationally and internationally. His worldwide research safaris have yielded an extensive database and in-depth knowledge of natural animal habitats.

The lecture is free to the public.

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Contact: David Johnson (814) 865-1871 (office) dwj4@psu.edu