Cultivating Space: Two New Books about Architecture and Landscape

Two Chicago authors and educators will offer new perspectives about trees and buildings: Ron Henderson will present his 30 Trees: And Why Landscape Architects Love Them (2024) and Riverside resident Michelangelo Sabatino will present his The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture (2024). Together, the authors reflect on the ongoing and sometimes challenging dialogue between nature and the built environment.

Books will be for sale and signed during the event.

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Ron Henderson is Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism at Illinois Institute of Technology where he also serves as Director of Research for the Alphawood Arboretum. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, a National Park Service Artist-in-Residence, a Japan-US Friendship Commission Creative Artist Fellow, and a former Senior Fellow of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.

Michelangelo Sabatino is a publicly engaged educator, historian, curator, and preservationist whose research and writing focuses primarily on the built environment of the twentieth century. In addition to having served as the Interim Dean (2017-19) he currently directs the PhD Program in Architecture and is the Inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow. Sabatino’s research has been supported by a range of funding agencies and institutions such as SSHRC, Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Graham Foundation.

Ron Henderson

Michelangelo Sabatino