Peter Schaudt Lecture in Landscape Architecture at IIT Chicago
The Peter Schaudt Lecture announces its inaugural lecture, to be given by Laurie Olin, RLA, FASLA, on Wednesday, November 16 at 6:00pm in Crown Hall at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). A founding partner of OLIN, he is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Medal of the Arts in 2013, and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
The lecture series is named in honor of former IIT campus landscape architect, Peter Schaudt, FASLA (1959-2015). With the exception of Mies van der Rohe, no other person has contributed as much to the design of the IIT campus. Schaudt’s work also extended beyond IIT, designing works of national and international significance as a founding partner of Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture, and, subsequently, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects. He was a tireless advocate for landscape architects in the city of Chicago and throughout the country.
The Peter Schaudt Lecture invites a landscape architect who has served as an influential mentor of subsequent generations of designers through their professional and academic practices, and has an outstanding reputation working in collaboration with other disciplines. These are characteristics for which Peter Schaudt was widely admired, and it is the mission of the lecture series to celebrate and perpetuate these qualities in the field of landscape architecture. Schaudt viewed Olin as a mentor throughout his career, and so it is fitting that he delivers the inaugural Peter Schaudt Lecture.
