Martin Segger will talk about the golden years of Victoria as a garden city, 1890-1930. He will focus on those who commissioned and created the great estate gardens, the social rituals they accommodated, and their importance as symbols of social status, wealth, and of horticultural and aesthetic sophistication.

Martin Segger is an architectural historian and urban critic who has written extensively on Victoria’s built environment. He is the author of numerous publications on the architectural history of Victoria and BC including (with Douglas Franklin) the path-breaking Victoria: A Primer for Regional History in Architecture 1843-1929 (1979) and The Buildings of Samuel Maclure: In Search of Appropriate Form (1986). He is also a former City of Victoria councillor and co-chair of the Provincial Capital Commission, and has enjoyed a long career as a gallery curator focusing on BC historic and decorative arts.

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