The event is free and open to the public.
Green joined the URI faculty in 1992 and has focused his research and teaching on sustainable design practices. In his senior design studios, he advises students on sustainable design projects for communities and non-profit agencies, including those for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, Knowles Mill Park in Richmond, and a sustainable transportation corridor in South Kingstown.
He spent a sabbatical in 2009 exploring sustainable design in South Africa and Australia, which he will discuss in his lecture.
“It was while visiting sites and speaking with designers that I realized how important culture and social conditions were as determinants of what was appropriate and achievable,” Green said. “Sustainable design does not come in one flavor.”
Green has won awards from the Rhode Island chapters of the American Planning Association and the American Society of Landscape Architects. He serves on the URI Master Plan Technical Advisory Committee and the URI President’s Council on Sustainability.
The final speaker in the Landscape Architecture Lecture Series is Barbara Faga of the international design firm AECOM on April 22 at 7 p.m.
The URI Landscape Architecture series is co-sponsored by the College of the Environment and Life Sciences, the Rhode Island chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association, and Gates Leighton & Associates. For more information about the series, contact the URI Department of Landscape Architecture at 874-2983 or Professor Will Green at wagre@uri.edu.