Before the naked city and joyless streets was the garden. This is its plot. Originally it was a "pleasant place," beyond which, in space and time, sprouted thorn and thistle. Later, much later, perhaps when it was already too late, came landscape (is it a noun or a verb, or both?). We do not necessarily ask where landscape came from—surely a better place, like a garden—but where it is going. This lecture series traces a serpentine path across the field(s) of landscape architecture and design, with occasional and revealing vistas to and from literature, the arts, and the sciences. "Down the Garden Path" suggests being taken in, willingly falling prey to the ruses that await us in the garden, and which are masked by its pleasures. - Ed Eigen This lecture series is organized by Edward Eigen, Assistant Professor, and Stan Allen, Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University.