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Landscape Architecture in the News
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Nancy C. Somerville
Landscape Architect Salaries Up By 20 Percent
Lawn & Landscape
LandscapeOnline
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) released preliminary results of its 2006 ASLA National Salary Survey and Business Indicators Survey at a press conference in Minneapolis. The event helped kick off the ASLA 2006 Annual Meeting and EXPO. According to the survey, average total compensation for landscape architects is $89,700. This is an increase of 20.2 percent over the reported $74,600 in the 2004 survey… “Both surveys confirm what we’ve been hearing from our members: that it’s a very good time to be a landscape architect,” said Nancy C. Somerville, executive vice president/CEO of ASLA.
ASLA Annual Meeting
2006 ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo and 43rd IFLA World Congress, October 6-10, Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, Minn.
ENR Construction
The American Society of Landscape Architects will host the 43rd IFLA World Congress in conjunction with their annual meeting and expo, making it the largest event held for landscape architects and related professionals. Registrants for the ASLA Annual Meeting and IFLA World Congress will have access to both events, including more than 80 extraordinary education sessions, exciting tours, a large product EXPO, and opportunities to connect with landscape architects from around the world.
ASLA Student Awards
ASLA Annual Meeting
Carrie Van Valenberg, Student ASLA
Local Achievements
Ithaca Journal (Ithaca, NY)
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) recently presented its 2006 Student Awards. The awards were presented during the 2006 ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO and 43rd IFLA World Congress, Oct. 6-10 in Minneapolis, Minn. Locally, Carrie Van Valenberg, a student ASLA attending Cornell University, received the award for Functional Landscape for Solar House.
ASLA Student Awards
Michael Van Valkenburgh
Michael J. Blier
Landworks Studio
Design School Members Nab Awards
Harvard Crimson (Harvard University, MA)
The American Society of Landscape Architects yesterday awarded two Graduate School of Design faculty members with Excellence in General Design, the highest award the society bestows. Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Michael Van Valkenburgh and Design Critic in Landscape Architectire Michael J. Blier each coordinated projects with their design firms to win the two awards of excellence… Blier’s firm, Landworks Studio, was founded in 1996 and is being recognized for its work on Court Square Press Courtyard, a garden for residents of a South Boston condominium.
Patrick Condon, ASLA
ASLA
Tonks and Chipperfield to speak Oct. 13 and 17
Washington University Record (Washington University)
David Chipperfield, architect for the proposed Saint Louis Art Museum expansion, and Nigel Tonks, who is leading building services engineering for the project, both will speak as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' fall Architecture Lecture Series…Subsequent Architecture Lecture Series speakers are listed below…Patrick Condon, ASLA, professor of landscape architecture at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, will discuss "Laying the Foundations for Sustainable 22nd-century Communities: The Importance of Design, the Necessity for Designers" Nov. 27. His talk is sponsored by the American Society of Landscape Architects.
John Tarkany, ASLA
DesignWorks
New Blessed Sacrament School blends with church, area
Charleston Post Courier (Charleston, SC)
The Blessed Sacrament School in West Ashley began life shortly after World War II as a collection of Quonset huts and other temporary buildings that remained on the school's Savannah Highway campus a few decades longer than the school's founders probably ever expected them to… John Tarkany, a landscape architect with DesignWorks and chairman of the building committee, says the building contains four new classrooms, a conference room, a maintenance shop and office and a large common area - about 9,000 square feet. Part of the design trick was to make the new building look small.
Christie Ten Eyck, FASLA
Glamming It Up
BusinessWeek
Having just completed the first iteration of the James Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, you might think architect Deborah Berke would have had a clear road map for a second James property in Chicago… The former property, an architecturally mediocre erstwhile Holiday Inn saddled with parking lots, needed a real design infusion to feel like a resort. Berke transformed the interiors with bold Luis Barragán−inspired colors and sleek lines, and worked with local landscape architect Christie Ten Eyck to turn the paved grounds into a leisure campus of gardens and swimming pools.
Dan Novakovich, ASLA
Southwest Florida Business Briefs: Oct. 2
Naples Daily News
Q. Grady Minor & Associates, P.A., Civil Engineers, Land Surveyors, Planners and Landscape Architects have announced the addition of Dan Novakovich, landscape architect to the firm. Novakovich has local and out of state project experience with master land plans, site planning and landscape architectural projects.
ASLA Student Awards
Michael Van Valkenburgh
Michael J. Blier
Landworks Studio
Design School Members Nab Awards
Harvard Crimson (Harvard University, MA)
The American Society of Landscape Architects yesterday awarded two Graduate School of Design faculty members with Excellence in General Design, the highest award the society bestows. Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Michael Van Valkenburgh and Design Critic in Landscape Architectire Michael J. Blier each coordinated projects with their design firms to win the two awards of excellence… Blier’s firm, Landworks Studio, was founded in 1996 and is being recognized for its work on Court Square Press Courtyard, a garden for residents of a South Boston condominium.
James Corner, ASLA
Field Operations
Park along shoreline could be `spectacular'
Toronto Star (Canada)
Though it doesn't occupy much space in the public consciousness, when Lake Ontario Park is completed it will be largest place of its kind in the city. At just less than 1,000 acres, it will stretch from the magnificent R.C. Harris Filtration Plant in the east all the way to Cherry Beach and the tip of the Leslie Street Spit in the west. But as landscape architect James Corner points out, "It's all edge. It doesn't really have an interior."… Field Operations, a highly regarded landscape architectural practice based in Manhattan, has come to international prominence for a series of projects in locales as diverse as Singapore and New York. "This is a great time for public space," says Corner. "We're building large parks in post-industrial cities everywhere. They bring new utility and new identity to the city."
John Ormsbee Simonds, FASLA
Barry W. Starke, FASLA
American Society of Landscape Architects
ASLA Medal
Classic update
Fauquier Times-Democrat (Warrenton, VA)
He pores over the fat and generously illustrated book like a monk, each page for him charged with the "eye-opening" power of revelation about an art form he wants to master. The college sophomore had never encountered anything like John Ormsbee Simonds' "Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design." It's Friday, Nov. 22, 1963. Barry W. Starke is 19 years old and sits at a small wooden table in the Bancroft Library reading room at the University of California, Berkeley, cast in back lighting from the autumn sun…In years to come, Starke's and Simonds' professional paths crossed at American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) meetings… In 1999, Starke headed ASLA's centennial celebration and helped assemble a book marking the event. He called Simonds at his home near Pittsburgh and asked him to write a prologue for the publication. In his late 80s and in poor health, Simonds declined. (Simonds, a recipient of the ASLA Medal, the organization's highest honor, got its one-time Centennial President's Medal.)
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Newest Gates Center designs released
CMU The Tartan Online (Carnegie Mellon University, PA)
Obscured by mounds of soil and a steep slope, behind the Purnell Center for the Arts lies a valley with a nearly 75-foot drop. This difficult terrain will be the birthplace of the Gates Center for Computer Science three years from now…According to Horgan, the landscape architect has exceeded the planning committee’s expectations. Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the site makes the building easily accessible to the community while still maintaining its privacy exclusive to academic institutions.
Robey Willis, ASLA
Hotel, upscale food store part of Ocotillo project
Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
A 175-room hotel and one of Arizona's first locations for Tesco, a new type of upscale food store, are among several details developers have confirmed for a piece of property that could become Ocotillo's new downtown….Robey Willis, a landscape architect on the Chandler project, said the landscaping will be a driving factor of the whole development. "The architecture is responding to the landscape," Willis said. The xeriscape used in many Arizona developments won't be part of this development. "Because we have access to a lot of (recycled) water, we're able to get away from the standard Arizona-style landscape and get more lush and very green," Willis said.
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
Carol R. Johnson Associates
Crosby Schlessinger Smallridge
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Copley Wolff Design Group
Ken Smith Landscape Architects
Field Operations
Public Domain: The Next Generation of American Public Spaces
Good Magazine
In the summer of 1855, a thin volume of poetry called Leaves of Grass appeared in New York… Today, the designers of a new generation of American public spaces draw inspiration from Olmsted and Vaux… Brooklyn Bridge Park, Location: Brooklyn, New York, Designer: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates…Rose Kennedy Greenway, Location: Boston, Massachusetts, Designer: Carol R. Johnson Associates, May Sun, Crosby Schlessinger Smallridge, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Copley Wolff Design Group…Orange County Great Park, Location: Irvine, California, Designer: Ken Smith Landscape Architect…The High Line, Location: Manhattan, New York, Designer: Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Phred Bartholomaei, ASLAA
Blue Mesa Studios
Roof makes you green with envy
Arizona Daily Star Tucson, AZ
Carole Hunter and Bil Taylor's roof is green, but not because they have an odd sense of style.
Their roof is home to an environment-friendly, thriving desert garden. "It's unique, and people are always surprised when they see it," Hunter said... Phred Bartholomaei, from the Blue Mesa Studios landscape architectural office, helped design the roof's landscape and irrigation. He said the biggest limitation in creating the project was the extreme environmental conditions on the roof.
Diana Balmori, ASLA
View From the Bridge
Metropolis magazine
Long Island City, just across the East River from Manhattan, has been one of those up-and-coming neighborhoods for more than a quarter-century. Despite its proximity to midtown, the once heavily industrial area has been slow to transform itself. …In 2002 landscape architect Diana Balmori conducted a study of the city’s rooftops to identify the best area where green-roof construction could have an impact not just on an individual building but an entire neighborhood. The study revealed that Long Island City would be the most promising neighborhood for clustering these environmentally friendly roofs, which help clean the air, reduce storm-water runoff, lower energy consumption, and ultimately reduce the heat caused by urban congestion.
Mayor Richard Daley, Hon. ASLA
Peter Schaudt, ASLA
It's how, not where
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Frederick Law Olmsted was America's greatest landscape architect, a poet of dirt and rocks and trees who saw urban parks not just as spaces of soothing beauty but as public places that would hold together an industrializing nation divided along class lines. Among his greatest works: New York City's Central Park and Chicago's Washington Park, which Mayor Richard Daley proposed last week as the site for a 95,000-seat stadium for the 2016 Olympics. …"If [the amphitheater] is completely an oval filled with concrete bleachers, 360 degrees around, it would be a huge imposition on the meadow," said Chicago landscape architect Peter Schaudt, whose works include the parkland around Soldier Field and the refurbished campus core at the Illinois Institute of Technology. But, Schaudt added, if the project consists of U-shaped seating restricted to one end, the Olympic track in the middle and the rest of the sunken area given over to grass, "it could be very poetic, almost like a Greek amphitheater in the hillside."
Cornell Solar House
ASLA Student Awards
Natalie Bower, Student ASLA
Jessy Schultz, Student ASLA
Carrie Van Valkenberg, Student ASLA
Linda Ciesielski, Associate ASLA
Alison Endl, Associate ASLA
Ted Haffner, Associate Student ASLA
Marc Miller, Associate ASLA
Peter Trowbridge, FASLA
Cornell's solar house landscaping wins national award
Ithaca Journal (Ithaca, NY)
The Cornell student-designed and -built solar house that earned second place in the 2005 Solar Decathlon Competition now has won a student "Award of Honor" from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for its functional landscape. The solar house landscaping covered 1,400 square feet with 1,500 edible plants and 240 square feet of tall fescue lawn. "At the simplest level, the design and display aimed to illustrate concepts of permaculture, creating an entirely edible garden that could be ornamental and aesthetic in both form and function," says ASLA's summary description. "Beyond this, the project demonstrated that sustainability could be achieved through this cohesive indoor/outdoor connection of house and landscape."…Team members include current and former students Natalie Bower, MLA '07, Jessy Schultz, MLA '06, Carrie Van Valkenberg, MLA '07, Linda Ciesielski, B.S. '06, Alison Endl, MLA '06, Ted Haffner, MLA '05, and Marc Miller, MLA' 05. Peter Trowbridge, Cornell professor of landscape architecture and department chair, served as their adviser.
George Dark, ASLA
Building Better Commissions: Leveraging Design Opportunities ...
Canadian Architect (Canada)
On Friday, September 29, 2006, a panel discussion sponsored by Canadian Architect magazine will take place from 2:00pm-4:00pm at the IIDEX/NeoCon show in Toronto… Speakers include…George Dark, FCSLA, ASLA, is a partner at Urban Strategies in Toronto. He is an urban designer, landscape architect and Fellow with the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects and a full member of the American Association of Landscape Architects.
American Society of Landscape Architects
Business Briefcase
Aspen Times (Aspen, CO)
Local project published in Architectural Record
Aspen-based Willis Pember Architects Inc.'s Wagner Park Edge project was featured in the September issue of Architectural Record, in a piece called "Selling the Light of Day" by Russell Fortmeyer. The Wagner Park Edge project has received previous state and regional awards from the American institute of Architects, American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Council of Engineering Companies. The current publication of the project is a national overview of the building-integrated photovoltaic industry and coverage of exceptional demonstration projects.
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