Associate Professor Georges Farhat was awarded the 2013 David R. Coffin Publication Grant last month by the Foundation for Landscape Studies in New York. He received the grant for his forthcoming book The French Formal Garden (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2013).

The David R. Coffin Publication Grant is awarded to an author or publisher of a book-in-progress on a landscape subject. Award recipients are selected by a jury composed of members of the board of directors of the Foundation for Landscape Studies and such non-board members as they may wish to appoint. Books based on original research and those that break new ground in method or interpretation are considered. The purpose of this prize is to reward contributors to the intellectual vitality of garden history and landscape studies. The jury considers each application on the basis of its potential for expanding the field to new areas and for increasing knowledge within an existing branch of the discipline.