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| 2003 ASLA Annual
Meeting & EXPO
October 30 - November 3, 2003 New Orleans, Louisiana EDUCATION SESSIONS Friday, October 31 C1 You may have grown tired of hearing this expression since 9-11. The truth of the matter is that life has changed, and design professionals need to recognize and respond to that change. Landscape architects create livable and secure environments where people live, work, and play. Since a great deal of security design focuses on the design of open space around buildings, this area is the design responsibility of the landscape architect. Responding to the need for heightened security by redesigning domestic “battlegrounds” gives the tactical edge while taking away every advantage from those seeking to do harm. That security design should claim attention is not surprising, not only because the terrorist attacks revealed numerous vulnerabilities to further threats, but also because the way security is achieved has everything to do with how the environment is experienced and how the future is perceived. The session will include examples of good implementations as well as proposals for the future. For more information regarding this session, please contact elhoppo@aol.com. Learning Outcomes: 1. Look at “temporary” responses to the need for security
design and understand why there should be concern
that these measures not become permanent and learn the strategies and
objectives of good, permanent security design. Leonard J. Hopper, FASLA, is the chief landscape architect and head of the New York City Housing Authority’s Landscape Architecture Division. He is responsible for approximately 2,600 acres of open space at over 350 housing developments throughout the city. Hopper has developed concepts and design guidelines that associate site design with social concerns and resident security. He received his BSLA from the City College of New York in 1974 and his master’s degree in Urban Design from the City University of New York in 1991. Martha J. Droge, Associate ASLA, served for over seven years as a special agent in the United States Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service where she conducted criminal investigations and implemented physical security, personal security, and counter-terrorism programs domestically and at US embassies abroad. Roger Courtenay, ASLA, is vice president and principal of EDAW, Inc., and recently served as an expert advisor for the General Services Administration on urban site security issues as well as working on numerous security design and planning projects in the Washington, DC area. Ted Wolff, ASLA, is a principal with Wolff Clements and Associates, Ltd. C2 As natural landscapes shrink in response to increasing development, how can designers protect restored landscapes from adverse human impacts while encouraging people to interact with these landscapes? How can positive connections between communities and the natural environment be promoted? Landscape architects designing restoration projects can use principles from landscape ecology to connect projects with the surrounding landscape and community. Learning sensitive treatment of patches, edges, and corridors will enhance the design of ecological restoration projects. For more information regarding this session, please contact cparker@jonesandjones.com. Learning Outcomes: Cory A. Parker, ASLA, is a licensed landscape architect working for Jones & Jones in Seattle, WA. Parker specializes in wetland and stream restoration, interpretive sites, and landscape ecology. Currently, he is part of the U.S. Highway 93 design team at Jones & Jones, developing innovative designs for wildlife crossings, stormwater, and wetlands. Panelists include Jan L. Cassin, PhD, a wetland ecologist/botanist who focuses on invasive plant species and wetland restoration for Parametrix, Inc., and Robert E. Snieckus, ASLA, a landscape architect for USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. C3 This session will discuss the design process for parkways using Canal Parkway as a model. Canal Parkway is a roadway in western Maryland that parallels the historic Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The session, led by landscape architects and representatives from Maryland State Highways, will discuss the collaboration between landscape architects, engineers, and other disciplines necessary for a successful design. Also addressed are the history, theory, and design principles of the American parkway. For more information regarding this session, please contact DPatterson@mahanrykiel.com. Learning Outcomes: David L. Patterson, ASLA, holds a MLA degree from the Technical University of Berlin and a BLA from Louisiana State University. An associate principal at Mahan Rykiel, his portfolio includes campuses, streetscapes, and commercial designs. He is currently working on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge project, which has been dubbed the most complicated transportation project in the country. Recently, Patterson won a United States Department of Transportation award for “Thinking Beyond the Pavement,” a set of guidelines for streetscapes in Maryland. David W. Wallace, PE, Affiliate ASLA, is a partner in the 490-person consulting engineering firm of Rummel, Kleper & Kahl, LLP, whose career has focused on planning and design services for transportation and site development projects including Canal Parkway. John G. Parsons, FASLA, has served as associate regional director with the National Park Service for 25 years representing the Secretary of Interior on the National Capital Planning Commission and the District of Columbia Zoning Commission, and serving as chairman of the National Capital Memorial Commission for 20 years. C4 Long buried under pipes adjacent to the New England Patriots’ old football stadium, the Neponset River has risen to daylight with the rising of the Patriots’ new stadium (opened 2002). From concept to reality in just one year, thanks to an exemplary public-private cooperation effort, the relocation and reconnection of the Neponset corridor has brought new life to one of metropolitan Boston’s major rivers. The rapidly establishing corridor features innovative bioengineering techniques. For more information regarding this session, please contact tbenjamin@rizzo.com. Learning Outcomes: Thomas S. Benjamin, ASLA, senior project landscape architect with Rizzo Associates, Inc., A Tetra Tech Company, in Framingham, MA, has over 16 years’ experience in environmental design, planning, and wetlands work, including assessment, design, and construction of wetland creation and restoration projects and bioengineered bank/shoreline stabilization projects. He also has ecological design, site planning, and land use regulatory experience. His projects include urban wilds/forest restoration and natural stormwater remediation. His chapter on natural resource stewardship appears in the Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design (Lewis Publishers, 2002). C5 Where does the time go? The stress is driving me crazy! Sound familiar? This humorous and informative presentation talks about setting realistic goals, learning the reasons for time problems, doing it right the first time, reducing workload, setting up time allocations for jobs, gaining solutions to paperwork, dealing with interruptions and distractions, working smarter, doing the important tasks during your peak energy levels, solving problems effectively, improving communications, managing stress, and making positive stress work for you. There will be opportunities for each attendee to share his or her ideas on time and stress management during the presentation. For more information regarding this session, please contact Tomhudgin@earthlink.net. Learning Outcomes: After 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry as one of the founders of Glaxo, a pharmaceutical firm in Raleigh, NC, Thomas L. Hudgin retired in 1991 and formed his own company, Wilmington Quality Associates. He specializes in business management training and consulting with a focus on helping companies improve their performance through effective leadership, competitiveness, motivation, and creating delighted customers. He has an MBA in marketing, over 200 clients, three books, and 20 to 30 speaking engagements a year. He also sailed across the Atlantic in a 38-foot ketch and is a pilot. He and his wife live on a farm along the southeast coast of North Carolina and raise llamas…just for fun. C6 LARE candidates and review session providers will hear firsthand from CLARB and the LARE Preparation Committee about changes to the exam and its creation and evaluation, and they will also learn important strategies for successful completion of the LARE. This session will focus on demystifying the LARE and preparing entry-level landscape architects for this important step in their professional-development process. Participants will hear from landscape architects who have recently taken and passed the exam, including former LAM writer Heather Hammatt, as well as speakers with many years of experience in helping candidates prepare for the LARE. For more information regarding this session, please contact virginia.russell@uc.edu. Learning Outcomes: Virginia L. Russell, FASLA, was ASLA vice president of membership when she created the ASLA LARE Preparation Committee and is immediate past chair of the LARE preparation committee. She has taught LARE review sessions and advised LARE candidates all over the United States since 1989. She is the editor and coauthor of the ASLA book, LARE: A Guide for Professional Development. Panelists include Sara Katherine Williams, FASLA, an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Florida and coauthor of the ASLA book, LARE: A Guide for Professional Development; Jim T. Penrod, ASLA, director of examinations for the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB); C. Edward Curtin, ASLA, assistant director for the Columbus Parks and Recreation Department in Indiana and currently ASLA vice president of finance; and Heather S. Hammatt, ASLA, SMPS, the marketing coordinator for the SmithGroup, Inc., and former LAM writer. C7 The session will discuss intertwining issues of preservation, ethnography, interpretation, and resource management at the Chalmette Battlefield and National Cemetery Site, located in the heavily industrialized Mississippi River corridor east of New Orleans. The park, which was the site of the Battle of New Orleans, has a richly layered land use history that presents many complexities to interpreting and managing the site today. Panel members will present findings from a 1999 cultural landscape report and a recent rehabilitation planting plan for Chalmette National Cemetery. For more information regarding this session, please contact jrisk1@lsu.edu. Learning Outcomes: Kevin Risk is an assistant professor of landscape architecture with Louisiana State University. Risk teaches coursework in western landscape history, conceptual design, and regional landscape studies and conducts research on the transmission of garden forms and ideology from France to Louisiana. He has recently completed a Cultural Landscape Report on the Valcour Aime Plantation Garden, “Le Petit Versailles,” for the state of Louisiana. From 1997 to 2000, he worked as a historical landscape architect for the Southeast Regional Office of the National Park Service in Atlanta. His Cultural Landscape Report for Chalmette Battlefield was published in 1999. Panelists include John L. Harper, assistant professor, School of Landscape Architecture, Louisiana State University; Allison Pena, cultural anthropologist; and David Muth, chief of resource management, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve. C8 The purchase, management, and application of technology are becoming more complex for offices. Often technology decisions are driven by marketing and IT staff rather than by the planning and design processes. This panel will discuss the changes in and myths surrounding technology and will offer strategies to better assess how technology can fit into what landscape architects do. For more information regarding this session, please contact wbremer@calpoly.edu. Learning Outcomes: Walter D. Bremer, ASLA, is a professor in the department of Landscape
Architecture at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
He is responsible for courses using computer technologies and is currently
involved in various university and departmental computing activities.
He directs the department's geographic information system research unit
(GIST - http://landarch.calpoly.edu/gislab). In addition to regional assessment,
his teaching responsibilities include landscape architectural design.
Panelists include James L. Sipes, ASLA, senior associate, Jones &
Jones; Madis Pihlak, ASLA, associate professor, Cornell University; Roger
T. Trancik, FASLA, professor, Cornell University; and Mark Lindhult, FASLA,
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