Photographer Claire Takacs and landscape architect and planting design expert Giacomo Guzzon will present their new book, Visionary: Gardens and Landscapes for Our Future. They will share stunning imagery and discuss key themes and findings, highlighting a selection of the book’s eighty gardens and public landscapes from around the world. These featured spaces showcase innovative, inspiring, and beautiful ways to work with our changing climate across diverse scales, climates, applications, and budgets.

About the Speakers:
Claire Takacs is a multi-award winning photographer who, for the last twenty years, has specialized in capturing the world’s best and most beautiful gardens and landscapes. Her work is defined by her use of light and her ability to capture defining moments in gardens, revealing their essence and excellence in design and planting. Her work features regularly in leading international magazines and books.

Giacomo Guzzon is a landscape architect who also lectures in planting design at the University of Greenwich, University of Sheffield, and the KLC School of Design in London. He is a principal landscape architect and head of planting design at the international landscape architecture firm Gillespies in London. Giacomo contributes to a variety of international conferences and publications. He has lectured in Hong Kong, the United States, and Europe.

DATE AND TIME
Thursday, October 31, 2024
2:00 p.m. Eastern

LOCATION
Live on Zoom

REGISTRATION: Click here to register.
$5 for members of the Garden Conservancy
$15 for General Admission