Dr. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor of Landscape History at the University of Illinois, explores how the Alhambra’s flourishing landscape was previously abandoned and left to the elements, then valued once again in the 19th century by travellers, designers, and world-renowned architects.
This lecture took place on August 10, 2016 in the Aga Khan Museum auditorium.
About
D. FAIRCHILD RUGGLES, PH.D.
Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
An historian of Islamic art and architecture, Dr. Ruggles’ research examines the medieval landscape of Islamic Spain and South Asia and the complex interrelationship of Islamic culture with Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism and the precise ways that religion and culture are often conflated in the study of these. She is the author of two award-winning books on gardens: Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain (2000), and Islamic Gardens and Landscapes (2008). Additionally she has edited or co-edited numerous works, including Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies (2000), the award-winning Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision (2007), Cultural Heritage and Human Rights (2007), Intangible Heritage Embodied (2009), On Location (2012), and Islamic Art and Visual Culture: An Anthology of Sources (2011).
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