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“Little beauty spots”

William Smith Clarke Memorial Site (photo by Ben Barnhart) DURING THE PAST COUPLE OF decades, professors and students in the department of landscape architecture and regional planning have used their drawing boards, shovels and muscle to create what Emeritus Professor Hal Mosher ’42, ’57G calls “little spots.” Of course, in their dreams, the department’s designers and planners imagine remaking the entire campus. Yet, so far even their muscles aren’t quite that powerful. Taken together, though, the impact of all the little beauty spots isn’t so little after all. Hampden Court Sculpture Garden – Located outside Hampden Gallery, the perennial garden designed by Todd Richardson ’87G in the late 1980’s hosts changing sculpture exhibits.* William Smith Clark Memorial Site – An award-winning memorial, located on the hilltop site of Clark’s former house, designed in 1991 by Todd Richardson ’87G. Consisting of two outdoor “rooms,” one of which forms a circle enclosed by silhouettes of buildings at Hokkaido University and UMass Amherst, both of which Clark founded.* Durfee Garden – Award-winning design featuring stone walls, patios and rocks adjoining Durfee Conservatory, with pink trellises covered with vines. Designed by Professor Dean Cardasis MLA ’81 and completed in 1995. Bartlett Hall Courtyard – A sunken entrance courtyard designed by Cardasis and completed by landscape construction students in 1997, it won an award and provides a site for the sculpture “Playfully Nodding to its Fall.”* Oswald Tippo Library Courtyard – In 1998 Professor Jack Ahern ’74 and Mike Davidsohn ’86S, ’92G worked with a university team on this garden at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library which commemorates the former chancellor and professor of botany. Fletcher Garden – Sitting area designed in memory of Stevenson Fletcher hotel, restaurant and travel administration professor, and constructed by instructor Mike Davidsohn and landscape contracting students next to Flint Laboratory in 1999. Davidsohn and his crews also built several other sitting areas, including one next to Clark Hall and another near Du Bois Library. * In collaboration with the UMass Arts Council. Construction services crews from Physical Plant helped build these projects.

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The Landscape Beautiful

“Little beauty spots”

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