Messervy To Give Bracken Lecture On Landscape, Feb. 27 2-25-97

University Park, PA -- Julie Moir Messervy, principal of Messervy Associates, a landscape design consultation firm specializing in the design of contemplative gardens, will be the second speaker in this year's John R. Bracken Lecture Series. The Bracken Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture of the College of Arts and Architecture.

The lecture, "The Inward Garden," is scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in 101 Thomas.

Messervy received her bachelor of arts from Wellesly College and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Architecture, where she received her master's of architecture and master's in city planning. She trained with the eminent Japanese garden master Kinsaku Nakane in Kyoto, Japan, first as a Henry Luce Scholar and later as a Japan Foundation Fellow.

Messervy has built gardens throughout the Boston area for the past 15 years, working with institutions and private individuals. Recent clients include the Arnold Arboretum, the Friends of the Public Garden, Mount Auburn Cemetery and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she designed Tenshin-en, The Garden of the Heart of Heaven with professor Kinsaku Nakane. She has taught in programs at MIT, Harvard, Radcliffe, the New York Botanical Garden and the Arnold Arboretum, and lectured around the country and in Canada.

Messervy's first book, Contemplative Gardens, was published in September 1990 and was called one of the 10 best garden books of 1990 by The New York Times. Little, Brown released Messervy's second book, The Inward Garden, in March, 1995.

Messervy is currently collaborating with internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma in designing a music garden. This will be the first in a series of six artistic collaborations which will be filmed by Rhombus Media Productions of Canada.

A reception and book signing will be held after the lecture. The lecture is free to the public.

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Contact: Christy Rambeau (814)865-7517 office or cmr7@psu.edu