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BELLINGHAM – Johnpaul Jones, award-winning designer, principal of the Seattle-based Jones and Jones Architects and Landscape Architects and lead architect for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., will be Western Washington University’s first Distinguished Lecture Series speaker of the year. Free tickets are still available for Jones' presentation, "Stand Inside Our Ways and Beliefs." The prominent American Indian architect will speak at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7 in the Performing Arts Center Mainstage at Western. Tickets for community members and Western faculty, staff and students are now available at the WW Box Office, or they can be held at the Box Office by calling (360) -650-6146, noon to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.
lead an effort to diversity Seattle’s architectural and design community in the mid-1980’s. A decade earlier, his architecture helped alter the direction of zoological design by creating natural, cageless environments for zoo animals, blending with the landscape and focusing on animals’ health and safety and public education about the animals. Jones designs with a strong commitment to the Earth – reflecting regional architectural traditions as well as native landscapes. His design philosophy grew out of his Native American four worlds heritage, which connects him to the natural, animal, spirit and human worlds. The architect’s award-winning designs include: the gorilla habitat at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo; Tiger River Trail and Treehouse at the San Diego Zoo; Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat and the Icicle Creek Music Center; the Longhouse Education and Cultural Education Center at the Evergreen State College; and the Grassland Habitat Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. Jones was named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, an honor held by less than three percent of his professional peers. A free shuttle will make continuous trips to the PAC from lot 12A at Fairhaven College beginning at 5:30 p.m. the evening of the lecture. Disability accommodations are available upon request and advance notice is requested. Please contact Special Events at (360) 650-7545. For more information, please visit the Distinguished Lecture Series Web site, www.lectureseries.wwu.edu. |
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