Palladium Musicum, Inc., a Greenwich-based non-profit, will present the second of four events of its 2017-2018 series: “The Quest for Peace in the Middle East through Sacred Music, Poetry and the Ancient Gardens of Persia,” on Saturday, April 21 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
In a lecture titled “Persian Paradise Gardens: Water, Architecture and Planting Design,” Dr. James L. Wescoat, Jr. will combine historic sites and paintings to retrace the millennia-long trajectory of Persian garden history, noting major breakthroughs in garden design, scholarship, and influence in other regions, most notably the gardens of Mughal India.
Wescoat is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture at MIT, where his teaching and research expertise includes garden history, cultural landscape design, and water resources. He directs the Master of Science program on Urbanism and co-directs the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism.
The lecture will conclude with a reception. Tickets are $65 general admission and are available at palladiummusicum.org or 203-661-6856.
