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2002 ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO
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Tuesday, October 22 Tour Descriptions T14 Participants ride to the starting point via the Pruneyard Towers and shopping mall, and past Campbell with its small shops & outdoor cafes and the restored Ainsley House. The return route is along Highway 17 where you will see the trail along the left side of the road. The first stop is at the water retention basins. Here we have the Pacific Flyway for a variety of ducks, plus geese. There are restrooms and areas for picnicking, windsurfing, and looking at the stream along a relatively level pathway. We walk along the beautiful creek for about one hour with narrative about the plant life. About one hour and four stops along the edge of the Lexington Reservoir take us through picnic areas, across from boating docks, around a restroom, a wildlife habitat island, and over to the miniature train and carousel. Then up to the street to the indoor-outdoor Campo di Bocce Courts of Los Gatos for a two hour lunch with pizza, salad, and a soft drink while playing bocce ball games on five courts. There is seating along the sides of the courts and in the bar, and standing at the ball court ends only. After lunch at the Bocce Ball Courts, we take a bus back to the Convention Center via the downtown shops of Los Gatos. Behind the Old Town Shops, we will briefly look at the trail and stream where the streamside has been steeply concreted a contrasting solution to working with the stream. $75 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, and bocce ball court fees with instructions. Tour led by Mark Beaudoin, and Jackie Schuette, ASLA. T15 $75 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, box lunch, snack, wine & cheese reception. Tour is led by Janne Corneil; Owen Lang, ASLA; Betsy Flack, ASLA, and Education Director of Strybing Arboretum. T16 $65 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, box lunch, and snack. Tour is led by Boris Dramov, FAIA; April Philips, ASLA; and Michael Fotheringham, ASLA. T17 From there travel to the historic 'Cannery Row' district of Monterey. Many historic buildings and renovations are located here along with the famous Monterey Bay Aquarium. Everyone will have a chance to taste the local cuisine for lunch and experience the spectacular bay views. The tour proceeds to the famous 17 Mile Drive. The first stop is Asilomar State Beach and the Spanish Bay Golf Course. Observe long-term public coast restoration by the California State Parks and discuss public access issues to these protected areas. Next, on to some of the most picturesque golfing in the world with a concluding stop at the Pebble Beach Lodge and Club House. Tour involves moderate walking. Participants will be on their own to purchase lunch in the 'Cannery Row' district of Monterey. $55 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, snack, on own for lunch at Cannery Row. Tour led by Todd Bronk, ASLA; Jay Blasi; Rick Marvin - City of Monterey Senior Planner; Mike Bellinger, ASLA; Ross Hunter-Pebble Beach Company Ecology Manager; and Tom Moss - California State Parks Senior Resource Ecologist. T18 Stop one brings you to Cabrillo College, which was a project built to solve formerly insolvable American Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements for an existing hillside campus at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. A new Land Studio design for accessibility corridor goes far beyond a traditional engineered system of switchback ramps. The Community College Board approved Land Studio's use of elevator building corridors as they were designed into the team's earlier Facilities Master Plan and Implementation Plan. As now built, this original design may be the first freestanding ADA elevator building corridors approved and constructed on a college campus. The corridors demonstrate the collaborative process and the trust implicit in a new (and some considered radical) ADA design solution. These constructed corridors, towers and circular pedestrian stairways tie together existing and soon to be built large-scale plazas, amphitheatres, and a hillside orchard for a redesigned campus. Each ADA accessible "full-experience" hillside tower successfully demonstrates how they meet and exceed all current ADA requirements. Stop two is at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), located on a campus of 2,030 acres overlooking Monterey Bay, about 85 miles south of San Francisco. Its spectacular natural setting of sloping meadows and redwood forest is complemented by a national recognized tradition of commitment to good design and high landscape values. The principles guiding UCSC's growth were first set down in its 1963 Long Range Development Plan, prepared by John Carl Warnecke and Associates with architects Anshen and Allen, Theodore C. Bernardi, and Ernest J.Kump and consulting landscape architect Thomas D. Church. Church's observations regarding the campus's setting became guidelines for its development: Stop three is at San Jose State University, which is part of the California State University System and is one of the oldest teaching institutions in California. Founded in 1857, on its present site, it has grown from twenty-five to eighty-eight acres. Enrollment has paralleled physical growth to where the campus now serves over 28,000 students. In the mid-1990s the university was successful in closing all its internal streets, a project hailed as "the most dramatic improvement ever made to the campus." The transformation created a contiguous property joined together by broad, landscaped pedestrian malls. It is this pattern of open spaces that reestablished the campus as a downtown oasis and set the stage for a more urban and metropolitan vision for the university. The resulting design called for the new open space corridors to have a distinct palette of plant materials, reinforcing the idea of the campus as an arboretum and teaching resource. The design received an award from the Northern California Chapter in 2001. $45 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, box lunch on UCSC Campus, and snack. Tour led by Kris Fox, ASLA; Dean Fitch, UCSC; Joni L. Janecki, ASLA; and Richard Macias, ASLA. T19 First visit Derby Park (built in 1973) in the city of Santa Cruz. Utilizing input from local skaters for the design, a plan was created and the park was built. Today Derby Park is still heavily used, and is considered one of the nations oldest public skate parks. The park has been in continuous use since the mid seventies. Designed by Ken Wormhoudt, ASLA, Derby Park has a strange roundedness - which affords no corners. Nonetheless, it has charm--it exists, it is open and free. Next see the "Fun Spot"- City of Santa Cruz. As a result of a recent court ruling that defeated the chances for a proposed, permanent concrete skate park, the City of Santa Cruz developed an alternative plan to get a "temporary" skate facility implemented immediately. Adjacent the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and Municipal Wharf, numerous restuarants await participants for lunch on own. Follow with a visit to Jose Avenue County Park Skate Park is in itself
a three thousand square foot attraction. This skate park was constructed
as an element of a new neighborhood park. Site constraints included close
proximity to single family and senior residential housing. Heavily used
by younger and older skaters alike, tour participants will learn of the
challenges faced and lessons learned during the establishment of this
site. $25 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, lunch on own. Tour led by Zachary Wormhoudt; John Akeman, ASLA; and Michael Scheele, ASLA. T20 $55 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, box lunch, and snack. Tour led by Jay Beals. T21 See the Edible School Yard at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School, a large garden whose development and operation are incorporated into the curriculum. Classes of students cook and eat together in a specially equipped kitchen and dining area. Project presented by program coordinator Marsha Guerrero and head gardener Kelsey Siegel. Next, visit Berkely Youth Alternatives, a community garden that provides training and employment opportunities for youth, who sell their crops at local farmers' markets and are contracted by the city of Berkeley to maintain local parks. Presentation of this project made by Jason Uribe, coordinator. See a combination of neighborhood sweat equity, city funding, and support from local businesses transformed a twenty-eight-space parking lot into this public green space called Halcyon Commons, which includes a mini-playground, a community herb and flower garden, and community bulletin board. This project is presented by co-coordinators, environmental planner John Thelen Steere and editor Nancy Carleton. Finally, see a schoolyard at Malcom X Elementary School that has been converted into an outdoor learning environment supporting school curriculum, which includes, performance space, school garden, art and science outdoor classrooms, a student gathering place, turfed play area, paved courts, and play structures all included in this natural learning environment. Presentation of this project made by project manager Susan McKay, MIG, Inc.. Interested participants see session 3B1. $55 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, box lunch, and snack. Tour led by Karl Linn, FASLA and Larry Wight, ASLA, MIG, Inc. T22 Next the tour passes through the heart of what was described as "the worst fire in California history". In 1991, twenty-five people lost their lives and more than 3,300 homes perished in this urban disaster. Learn how ASLA volunteers provided immediate assistance to homeowners and a myriad of public agencies that responded. The local ASLA chapter collaborated with AIA on a California Emergency Design Assistance Team (CEDAT). Tour leader, Chris Pattillo was one of several who participated and went on to lead a team of professionals that prepared the "East Bay Vegetation Management Plan". Meet with fire department personnel who will discuss their on-going efforts to prevent a repeat of the Oakland Firestorm. A short drive to downtown Oakland takes the group to the Kaiser Roof Garden designed by Ted Osmundson, FASLA. These luxurious gardens atop one of Oakland's landmark buildings provide the perfect setting for lunch. Constructed in the 1950s, this garden represented cutting-edge technology of the time. Ted Osmundson, FASLA, meets with the group during lunch to describe the innovative techniques he devised for the garden, which continues to serve as a model for on-structure projects. Next, tour Oakland's newly designed civic center, which underwent a complete renovation as a result of the damage caused by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Oakland's historic City Hall was seismically stabilized and completely renovated and two new city administration buildings were constructed to replace the 1960s era structure destroyed during the quake. The new Elihu M. Harris State Office Building and C.L. Dellums Federal Building are all linked by a new plaza designed by architects Y.H. Lee and Pyatok & Associates in association with Robert Larocca and Pattillo & Garrett Associates, Landscape Architects. Walk through the plaza to Oakland's new Federal Building and plaza designed by Anthony Gazzardo, Landscape Architects. Proceed to Preservation Park, a successful old town development that includes an assemblage of mostly Victorian-era homes displaced by the adjacent freeway construction and now home to several non-profit organizations. Preservation Park designed by CHNMB. Finally, the tour visits the Oakland Museum of California designed by Dan Kiley in association with famed plants-woman and landscape architect, Geraldine Knight Scott. Built in 1960, these gardens have been likened to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Both of our tour guides have been engaged in different phases of the museum's renovation, driven by the need to correct drainage problems. $60 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, box lunch, and snack. Tour led by Chris Pattillo. T23 (full) Half a century ago, Thomas Church recognized, gardens can and should become extensions of people's homes serving as an oasis in a hectic and harried world. This struck a cord with other landscape architects and designers, nearly 50 years ago when Thomas Church first published Gardens are for People. Find out how those themes are resonating today. Visit several residences in the Silicon Valley region, featuring Landscape Architects and designers, Bernard Trainor, Lisa Moulton, Ron Wigginton, ASLA, and Ron Herman, ASLA. The group will have the opportunity to speak with some of the architects and designers responsible for the projects. During the lunch hour, the tour visits the Sunset Western Garden Magazine Demonstration Garden. The Sunset Garden was designed by Thomas Church and was recently renovated. The stop should serve as a reference point for the group, a living example of Church's philosophy, and an opportunity to meet with the designers involved in the renovation. (Sunset magazine is a staple for Western gardeners, and their reference materials serve as a tremendous resource for landscape architects, nurserymen, contractors and home gardeners alike.) $45 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, boxed lunch, and snack. Tour led by Elizabeth Pulver, ASLA. T24 $55 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, box lunch, and snack. Tour led by Cathy Blake, ASLA, Stanford University; Ron Wigginton, ASLA, Land Studio; April Phillips, ASLA, April Phillips Design Works; and Dan Tuttle, ASLA, the SWA Group. T25 Interested participants see session's 4A1 and 1C1. $25 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation to starting point of walking tour, and morning snack. Tour led by Cordy Hill, ASLA; Jimmy Chan, ASLA; and presentation at River Street Gardens by Alrie Middlebrook. T26 $10 per person. Fee includes handouts and beverage. Tour led by Evan Rose; Matthew Myers, Prakash Pinto; and Benjamin Grant, SMWM Architecture and Planning; and T. Tran, RLA, ASLA, San Jose Redevelopment Agency. T27 Filoli is the only remaining example of an early twentieth century Country Estate garden in California. In 1917 renowned architect Willis J. Polk built the modified Georgian-style house-now filled with 17th and 18th century furnishings-for William and Agnes Bourn, owners of the Empire Gold Mine and Spring Valley Water Company. Landscape designer Bruce Porter planned Filoli's famed 16 acres of intricate formal gardens to represent a series of outdoor rooms, where visitors can enjoy a significant collection of plants and two large European herb knot gardens. Now operated by Filoli Center, the estate represents an excellent example of architecture and garden design from the first part of the twentieth century. The house is furnished with some of the original owner's furnishings, the Martin collection, and other pieces. During the blooming season, exquisite specimens of orchids are displayed in the rooms. In addition to the house and garden tour, lunch is included, and a guided Nature Hike covering roughly 3 miles of trails that will take approximately 2 1/2 hours. The Nature Docents describe wildlife, plants, endangered species and the historical background of the area. Points of interest include the Ohlone Indian habitation site and the San Andreas earthquake fault. The Nature Center holds exhibits of Indian artifacts, birds and wildlife indigenous to the area. $55 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, box lunch at Fioli, and snack. Tour led by Jan Palajac, ASLA and Kristine Iverson. T28 Next visit Los Lagos Golf Course where over 100 acres of parkland adjacent to Coyote Creek was converted to a golf course and sensitively integrated into the native environment. Discuss project planning, design, and construction as well as what environmental resource agency permits were required. Attendees learn different approaches for current habitat mitigation techniques, and gain a stronger understanding of environmental permit requirements. Participants are on their own for lunch and refreshments at the golf course restaurant where the entire surrounding landscape consists solely of native plant materials. Project designers will be on hand to answer any questions and lead informal tours. In downtown San Jose, the focus is on urban creek restoration. Visit the Guadalupe River and discuss the planning for urban rivers, which involves balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders. Attendees are expected to gain a stronger understanding of the challenges between project design/construction and habitat mitigation requirements. Interested participants see session 2F1. $55 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, people are on own for lunch at clubhouse, and snack. Tour led by Matthew Smeltzer; William Halleck; and Pat Reynolds. T29 $60 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, box lunch at Mirassou Winery, and snack. Tour led by Laurel Prevetti. T30 $75 per person. Fee includes handouts, transportation, tasting fees and hors d'ouerves. Tour led by Dan Graham and representatives of the Mountain Winery. |
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