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| 2003 ASLA Annual
Meeting & EXPO
October 30 - November 3, 2003 New Orleans, Louisiana EDUCATION SESSIONS Friday, October 31 A1 There are many publications about smart growth. However, few weave together all the multifaceted issues and literally bring them to life. PennSCAPEs (Pennsylvania Strategies, Codes And People Environments) is a richly illustrative multimedia program for neighborhood planning and design, created to educate and empower citizens, developers, and municipal officials about strategies that promote smart growth. PennSCAPE’s multidisciplinary team will discuss and demonstrate the program’s details, and participants will get a hands-on opportunity to try it out. A follow-up session is offered in the LandTech Pavilion on the EXPO floor: Sunday, November 2, at 11:15am-12:15pm. For more information regarding this session, please contact kxf15@psu.edu. Learning Outcomes: Kelleann Foster, ASLA, RLA, is an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Pennsylvania State University. Her expertise includes community design and planning, with emphasis on the relationship between policies and the impact of their implementation, especially in regard to the public’s understanding of the process and its products. Her work focuses on using computer technologies and dynamic graphics to communicate alternative scenarios to citizens. This work has received national and international recognition. She is also managing partner for the VICgroup, a landscape architecture firm that helps communities transform land use regulations into multimedia communication. Panelists include Timothy P. Johnson, associate professor of landscape architecture, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Rios, director, Hamer Center for Community Design Assistance, Pennsylvania State University; Scott Wing, assistant professor of architecture, Pennsylvania State University; and Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who is a pediatrician and epidemiologist and has become a leader in environmental health and its connection to the built environment. A2 The emerging green roof movement offers landscape architects new technologies for an old idea: a vegetated roof. This session presents an introduction to the green roof movement, definitions and descriptions of green roof technologies, and an understanding of the cultural and environmental benefits of using green roof technologies. The session concludes with a presentation of a model green roof design and installation process. This model will be presented through examples of the design and installation of two case studies. For more information regarding this session, please contact bdvorak@cdfinc.com. Learning Outcomes: Bruce Dvorak, ASLA, is an associate with the Conservation Design Forum and has contributed to the design and management of several green roof projects in the Chicago area including the Chicago City Hall Green Roof Pilot Project, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum green roofs, and a green roof research and monitoring station at Conservation Design Forum. Over the past two years Dvorak has presented at several green roof conferences in the Midwest. Dvorak holds a BLA from the University of Minnesota and an MLA from the University of Illinois. Marcus de la fleur is an associate with Conservation Design Forum. A3 This session will explore the interface between design and historic preservation in the nation’s commercial areas. Representative examples will range from pastiche solutions to innovative rehabilitation projects. As part of this discourse, early modernist endeavors for "recycling" building complexes and pedestrian malls and the implications of design guidelines in historic districts will be explored. Examples will include Havana, Cuba; New Orleans; and Philadelphia's Society Hill in addition to pioneering works by Lawrence Halprin and Garrett Eckbo. For more information regarding this session, please contact charles_birnbaum@nps.gov. Learning Outcomes: Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, is the coordinator for the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative, which received ASLA’s President’s Award in 1995. Prior to joining the NPS in 1992, he spent a decade in private practice with a focus on landscape preservation. Birnbaum’s most recent projects include the online series Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms: Editing Landscape Preservation in Context from the University Press of Virginia; Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture from Spacemaker Press; and Pioneers of American Landscape Design: An Encyclopedia from McGraw Hill. Patricia Stone Pitzer is the director and state coordinator of the Louisiana Main Street Program for the State of Louisiana, Division of Historic Preservation, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism. A4 By exposing landscape architects to the various systems at work in river environments, it is hoped they will become more inclusive designers. This session introduces practitioners to the principles and considerations of sustainable riverfront design and addresses the challenge of creating socially and biologically dynamic riverfront environments. In the true application of “form follows function,” presenters will demonstrate how geomorphology and physics shape natural rivers and how this knowledge can be used in riverfront development projects. Examples will illustrate how the environmental and socioeconomic aspects of riverfront land development can be resolved to meet ecological, aesthetic, and societal goals. For more information regarding this session, please contact groznikfg@bv.com. Learning Outcome: Frank Groznik, ASLA, AICP, is a senior landscape architect with more than 24 years of experience providing comprehensive analysis and design solutions for complex natural resource projects based on the principles of sustainable development. Groznik’s experience includes river and stream restoration, habitat restoration, bioengineering bank stabilization, park planning, and design. He is a recognized expert in river and stream restoration and president of the nonprofit River Restoration Northwest organization (www.rrnw.org) and has worked on river restoration projects throughout the United States, including Florida’s intercoastal waterway, the South Platte and Arkansas Rivers in Colorado, and the Snake and Columbia Rivers in the northwest. Panelists include Janine M. Castro, PhD, geomorphologist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and Pete Klingeman, professor emeritus of civil engineering at Oregon State University. A5 The successful completion of projects in the public or private sector necessitates meetings. Productive meetings have the power to bring together diverse people to work on common visions, goals, and plans, while mismanaged meetings can actually increase division and mistrust among colleagues and community members. Planners and designers, community leaders, city administrators, visionaries—anyone who needs to manage teams—will find this session useful for learning processes and tools that help make meetings more dynamic, effective, and successful. Session topics include group dynamics, facilitator roles and responsibilities, group process design, meeting structure, and management of difficult people. For more information regarding this session, please contact daniel@migcom.com. Learning Outcomes: Daniel Iacofano, ASLA, is a founding principal of MIG with over 25 years of experience in facilitation, public outreach and information, and urban planning. He is an expert in managing multidisciplinary projects, developing and implementing public and stakeholder outreach strategies, and building consensus among multiple interests. He has been a visiting lecturer at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California at Davis, teaching courses in urban planning, urban and environmental conflict management, group process management, and advanced communications. He has authored several publications, including Public Involvement as an Organizational Development Process (Garland Publishing, 1990), Meeting of the Minds (MIG Communications, 2001), and many articles on facilitation, organizational development, participatory planning, and urban planning. A5a After a decade long period of growth and prosperity, firms are adapting to a marketplace influenced by world events, a wavering economy, client reorganizations, new funding programs, and technology advances. Flexibility, adaptability, and efficiency seem to be critical characteristics for future sustainability and success. Change is good. Change is mandatory. Many firms are reorganizing or dramatically refocusing their business plans. Client groups are experiencing many of the same pressures to evolve. Is all this brilliant decision making what will assure long-term growth and stability or merely knee-jerk reactions to the shaken economy? The leaders of several diverse companies and one federal agency will discuss how each is carefully responding to the many external influences on their organization. For more information regarding this session, please contact: cdimond@hntb.com. Learning Outcomes: F. Chris Dimond, FASLA, the chairman of Urban Design and Planning Services with HNTB Corporation in Kansas City, MO, will moderate this session. Other panelists include Martha Schwartz, ASLA, president of Martha Schwartz, Inc., in Cambridge, MA; Daniel Wenk, ASLA, director of the National Park Service Denver Service Center in Denver, CO; Thomas Papandrew, FASLA, chairman of Belt Collins Hawaii in Honolulu, HI; and Debra Mitchell, FASLA, senior vice president of SmithGroup JJR Incorporated in Chicago, IL. A6 Specifications are an important part of contract documents for most landscape architecture projects. Specifications are best prepared in tandem with drawings but are often left to the last possible moment before contract documentation is completed. A firm foundation in specification fundamentals and familiarity with specification editing, coordination checklists, and specification software will make the task easier and more satisfying and will result in fewer mistakes and problems on the job site. Available software assists in product selection, saves time, and reduces effort and mistakes in editing, formatting, and producing office master and project specifications. For more information regarding this session, please contact PBrosnahan@arcomnet.com or EFSmith@arcomnet.com. Learning Outcomes: Paul Brosnahan, AIA, CCS, CSI, is ARCOM's director of architectural specifications, coordinator of the MASTERSPEC Landscape Architecture Library, and ARCOM liaison to ASLA. Brosnahan was instrumental in developing the Landscape Architecture Library in collaboration with ASLA and is responsible for the maintenance and updating of the library. He has 28 years’ experience as a registered architect, project manager, and specification writer. Edward F. Smith, DArch, FAIA, CSI, is the founder and president of ARCOM, a registered architect with 20 years’ practice experience, and a professor emeritus of architecture with 28 years’ teaching experience. ARCOM is the publisher of MASTERSPEC Master Specification System. Phillip McDade, FCSI, CCS, FASLA, has been vice president of Weatherford/McDade, Ltd., in Jackson, MS, for over 20 years and currently serving as president of the Construction Specifications Institute, the first landscape architect to hold this office. A7 Crescent City! The Big Easy!! The city “that care forgot!” New Orleans goes by many names, but they all refer to a city that is rich in history, culture, and enjoyment. This session will discuss the evolution of the city’s physical form from the beginning in 1718 with the arrival of the French, which includes growth patterns, why and how this fabled city evolved because of the Mississippi River, subtropical climate, and below city-level location. The session will trace the cultural development of New Orleans and how it related to its "French" colonial roots, indigenous water, landscape, and climatic influences. The traditions, lingo, food, music, and diversity all reflect what New Orleans is today. AndreNeff will illustrate the city at its best and liveliest using images from his personal collection and commentary from his vast knowledge of New Orleans. Learning Outcomes: Andre Neff has a BLA from Louisiana State University and has been a senior city planner for the City Planning Commission, New Orleans, LA, since 1997. Neff was chief of urban design/senior city planner for the Commission and is the onetime director of public utilities for the city of New Orleans. He is licensed in Louisiana and is former chairman of the Louisiana Landscape Architects Selection Board. He has extensive knowledge of New Orleans and has led many tours of the city for both international and national planning groups such as the American Planning Association and Institute for Smart Growth. A8 Using modern CAD software tools to create 3-D models of landscape requires special knowledge and techniques. The principal elements of landscape—terrain, vegetation, water, and atmosphere—each present special challenges. Some systems come with “off-the-shelf” tools of value to landscape architects, from the "Make Terrain" button to a library of tree forms. This survey of the current state of the art will highlight basic techniques and special functionality in a variety of software packages including AutoCAD, 3Dstudio Max and VIZ, FormZ, VectorWorks, Maya, Rhino, and ArcGIS. A follow-up session is offered in the LandTech Pavilion on the EXPO floor: Saturday, November 1, at 11:15am-12:15pm. For more information regarding this session, please contact servin@gsd.harvard.edu. Learning Outcomes: Stephen M. Ervin, MLA, PhD, Associate ASLA, is the director of computer
resources and assistant dean for information technology at the Harvard
University Design School and is a lecturer in the Department of Landscape
Architecture. Ervin teaches and conducts research in the areas of design,
computing, media, and technology, with a special interest in landscape
modeling and visualization and the integration of CAD and GIS. He is the
coauthor with Hope Hasbrouck of Landscape Modeling: Digital Techniques
for Landscape Visualization (published by McGraw Hill), an ASLA Merit
Award winner in 2002. The founding chairman of the ASLA's Professional
Interest Group on Computers in Landscape Architecture, he holds a master's
degree in landscape architecture from the University of Massachusetts
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