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| | Between Nature and Culture |
 | | As part of a celebration of a century of the teaching of landscape architecture at Harvard, a large gathering at the School of Design considered how Holliston, Massachusetts, deals with its wastewater. |
 | | Consideration of such matters was perfectly appropriate as part of the centennial because landscape architecture is not some sort of elevated gardening, but a discipline that mediates between nature and culture, as John Beardsley '74, a senior lecturer in landscape architecture, puts it. |
 | | The history of landscape architecture at Harvard "cannot be categorized by a simple snapshot or a single encapsulating phrase," notes George Hargreaves, M.L.A. '79, the San Francisco-based chair of the department, for it requires "tracing the ebbs and flows of taste, ideology, economics, even global politics." That history involves some firsts. |
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