Designing with Scent: The Xi’an Scent Garden

WORKshop invites you to a lecture at the ROM:

Designing with Scent: The Xi’an Scent Garden
Friday, September 17, 7-8 pm
Signy & Cleophee Eaton Theatre
Royal Ontario Museum, Level 1B

Immersive environments employing scent are being designed by University of Toronto architecture professors Rodolphe el-Khoury and Robert Levit. Their unique public scent garden for the ancient capital of Xi’an, China, is under construction as part of that city’s 2011 World Horticultural Exposition. The Xi’an Scent Garden project and an accompanying “Scent Squadron” (designed by the firm of KHOURY LEVIT FONG and evoking the historic Terracotta Warriors period), are on display at WORKshop, 80 Bloor St. W., to October 2. El-Khoury and Levit reveal how they emphasize olfactory experience as an integrative design element, orchestrating fragrances with buildings, landscapes, and today’s digital technologies.
Following the lecture, you are invited to attend a reception at WORKshop, 80 Bloor St. W., Lower Concourse, 8:30-10 pm.

Speakers:
Rodolphe el-Khoury is an award winning designer and author of critically acclaimed books on the history and theory of architecture. He is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and principal at KHOURY LEVIT FONG.

Robert Levit, whose architecture, urban design, housing projects and critical essays have been recognized internationally, is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and principal at KHOURY LEVIT FONG.

Free event.
Please RSVP to attend the lecture: http://www.rom.on.ca/programs/lectures/index.php?ref=showinfo&program_id...