Japanese Garden Lecture Series

Thursday, May 17th 7:00pm
Cranbrook Institute of Science Auditorium
39221 Woodward Avenue
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

Shinichiro Abe, ZEN Associates, Boston, MA
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 | 7:00pm

Sadafumi Uchiyama, Portland Japanese Garden, Portland, OR
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 | 7:00pm

Gregory De Vries, Quinn Evans Architects, Ann Arbor, MI
Thursday, May 17, 2018 | 7:00pm

Marc Peter Keane, Ithaca, NY
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 | 7:00pm

Cranbrook Institute of Science Auditorium
$25 for the Series of Four Lectures (with advance online registration only through the form below)
$10 for Individual Lectures (payable at the lectures, space permitting)

The Japanese Garden Lecture Series is sponsored, in part, by the Clannad Foundation and Karen Hagenlocker in association with the Japan America Society of Michigan and Southwestern Ontario.

Presented by the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, the Japanese Garden Lecture Series is part of the Center’s ongoing efforts to shine a spotlight on Cranbrook’s Japanese Garden, including its 100-year heritage and its potential for renewal and growth. Created in 1915 by Cranbrook founder George Gough Booth and his father Henry Wood Booth, the Japanese-style garden is among the oldest in North America. The garden is centered on a pond, which is part of the River Rouge watershed, and features an iconic vermillion Japanese-style bridge. Although the garden remains a place of beauty and inspiration, the garden is in need of rehabilitation—an effort being led by the Cranbrook Center.

The Center’s Japanese Garden Lecture Series will not only include a public presentation of the 2018 Historic Landscape Study of Cranbrook’s Japanese Garden, presented by the study’s lead landscape architect, Gregory De Vries of Quinn Evans Architects, but also will be an opportunity to hear from three of the most respected Japanese garden designers working in North America—Shinichiro Abe, Marc Peter Keane, and Sadafumi Uchiyama. While De Vries’s lecture will focus exclusively on Cranbrook’s Japanese Garden, including an illustrated timeline of its history and documentation of its features and trees that remain extant, the lectures of the three Japanese garden designers will look more broadly at the field of Japanese garden design through the gardens that each of them have created or restored in North America.