Speakers Biographies
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Charles M. Anderson, FASLA, has been in practice for more than 20 years, crafting numerous award-winning projects that are recognized for their ability to integrate art, architecture, nature, and community needs. His firm grounding and knowledge of natural systems highlights the transformative processes of ecological systems and helps to create socially relevant spaces. His work ranges from numerous high-profile commissions to neighborhood parks, residences, and urban ecological restorations. His projects consistently engage the tensions between built structures and a contemporary notion of nature.
Sadik C. Artunc, FASLA, is currently professor and head of the landscape architecture department at Mississippi State University. He has conducted numerous LARE workshops around the nation and is the chair of the ASLA Preparation Committee, whose highly qualified and experienced members conduct LARE Preparation Sessions at the ASLA annual meeting. Sadik has written more than 100 publications and is a popular speaker at ASLA meetings and conferences and other professional events.
Cheryl L. Barton, FASLA, received a master's degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is a registered landscape architect, and ASLA Fellow, and an ASLA past president. She is a recipient of the prestigious 2003-2004 Prix di Rome. Cheryl is also a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and an accredited LEED professional, and teaches and lectures nationally. Prior to founding the Office of Cheryl Barton, she was a principal and director of the Design Studio at EDAW Inc., in San Francisco.
Charles E. Beveridge, Honorary ASLA, is a recipient of the ASLA Olmsted Medal and a senior editor of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers project. He has lectured widely on Olmsted and landscape architecture and has served as consultant for preservation and restoration of some 50 parks and other sites designed by Olmsted and his firm. He is author of Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape and is co-editor of the eight volumes of the Olmsted Papers completed to date.
Steven Bingler, is the founder of Concordia LLC, a community planning and architectural firm in New Orleans, LA. Under his leadership, Concordia's projects span a wide range of building types including the Jackson Brewery Festival Marketplace, the New Orleans Aquarium of the Americas (with the Bienville Group) and the Henry Ford Academy in Dearborn, Michigan. Current planning projects are underway in Louisiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California. Over the past year, Concordia has served as the coordinator for the Unified New Orleans plan, a comprehensive strategy for the redevelopment of the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Concordia supported the New Orleans Community Support Foundation in leading 12 urban planning firms through more than 54 community planning district meetings and three citywide community congress events involving a combined participation of more than 5,000 citizens.
In recent years, Steven has undertaken projects focused on the planning and design of systemic community living and learning environments. He has served as a special consultant to the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education for policy related to the design of schools as centers of the community. His papers have been published in a wide range of books and journals in the fields of urban planning, architectural design, education, public health and smart growth. Additionally, Steven frequently speaks at national symposia and conferences related to innovations in community-based and education planning and design.
Tina M. Bishop, ASLA, is a landscape architect and partner with Mundus Bishop Design Inc., a Denver-based firm specializing in the design of significant places, particularly those with historic and natural value. Tina frequently lectures on the design of public spaces, park design, urban design, and historic preservation. Her work includes Red Rocks Park, Hot Springs National Park, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. She is the author of the park master plan for Denver's Civic Center and the urban designer for the Denver Justice Center Urban Framework Plan.
Daniel Bucko, ASLA, has over 20 years experience as an urban designer and planner on a wide range of projects including downtown redevelopment, mixed-used, large scale residential and new towns, resorts, parks, and sustainable communities. His projects have embraced a variety of urban environments throughout the USA, Middle East, and Asia. He has also provided project management expertise on a number of large-scale environmental analyses utilizing GIS technology. Current projects include the master plan for Treasure Island, San Francisco, the reuse plan for the Concord Naval Weapons Station, and the Downtown Plan for El Paso, Texas.
Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa, ASLA, is a landscape architect and urban designer whose work is consistently recognized for design innovation. He is a pioneer and leading practitioner of landscape urbanism, an approach to urban design based on the fusion of ecology, community identity, infrastructure, recreation, and public art. A principal of Wallace, Roberts & Todd, LLC which won the ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm Award in 2005—Ignacio continues to develop and refine this practice as he directs the firm’s landscape architecture studio in Philadelphia and of many of the firm's large-scale landscape projects. Ignacio is a Harvard Loeb Fellow and periodically lectures, teaches, writes, and serves on design award juries.
Laura Burnett, ASLA, LEED AP, is a landscape architect with over 20 years of experience in a broad range of projects for civic, state and federal government entities, universities and multi-agency public organizations. Ms. Burnett has led numerous project teams, which have included architects, engineers, public artists and citizen advisory committees. Her work in the planning and design of urban communities, parks, campuses, transit-oriented facilities, and regional open space networks focuses on the cultural, functional and aesthetic interface of human activity and natural systems.
William B. Callaway, FASLA, BLA - University of California, Berkeley, MLA - Harvard University Graduate School of Design, registered landscape architect in nine states.
Jack Carman, FASLA, president of Design for Generations, LLC, specializes in the design and development of therapeutic gardens for senior communities including assisted living and Alzheimer residences, adult day healthcare centers, long-term care residences, continuing care retirement communities, and healthcare facilities. He authored a chapter on therapeutic gardens for the 2006 publication Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Older Adults and is founder of the ASLA Professional Practice Committee on Therapeutic Gardens. Jack holds a Bachelor of Science in landscape architecture from Rutgers University.
Dennis Carmichael, FASLA, is a licensed landscape architect and president of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He has been a design leader at EDAW for the past 25 years and is a member of the ASLA Potomac Chapter.
Abhijeet L. Chavan, ASLA, is the co-founder and co-editor of Planetizen and chief technology officer of Urban Insight, Inc. He previously served as technology coordinator for the East St. Louis Action Research Project, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) initiative for revitalizing distressed urban communities. He also coordinated geographic data visualization projects at UIUC's Imaging Systems Laboratory. As an architect with A.B. Lall Architects, Abhijeet worked on sustainable design projects. He received master's degrees in architecture and landscape architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Frank R. Chow, serves as the co-practice leader of landscape architecture and regional creative director for EDAW's Asia region. His innovative, sustainable, site-specific, and culturally sensitive solutions and interdisciplinary approach have enabled him to create many award-winning projects. He has been instrumental in establishing infrastructure and design standards that have contributed to growth in the region. Frank's work with clients ranges from new town master plans to public and private landscapes. He holds degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Andrea C. Cochran, ASLA, has practiced landscape architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1981. Since starting Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture in 1991, the firm has since grown to 11 people and has received numerous awards for its work, including four national ASLA awards. Andrea holds an MLA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a BS in landscape architecture from Rutgers University. Her work has been published both nationally and internationally. Andrea was a finalist in Landscape Architecture for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards in 2006.
Brad Cownover, ASLA, is director of Scenic Conservation Services for the nonprofit, Scenic America, providing policy leadership and consultation services to communities across the country on matters related scenic byways, context-sensitive transportation design, open space preservation, and design guidelines. He is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences on visual resource stewardship. Prior to joining Scenic America, Brad was the chief landscape architect for the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, and program and policy lead for Scenic Byways and Visual Resources Management.
Kurt Culbertson, ASLA, has an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from Louisiana State University and a MBA in real estate from Southern Methodist University. He joined Design Workshop in 1979 serving as president and CEO from 1990 until 2005.
Kerry J. Dawson, ASLA, is vice president of environment and education at the Hudson River Park Trust, whose park and marine sanctuary encompass five miles along the Manhattan's west side. Kerry has received 26 awards from ASLA and its chapters for his work, has numerous refereed publications, and has worked on seven of ASLA's 100 20th century landscapes. He is a Fulbright Fellow, Beatrix Farrand Fellow from UC Berkeley, and a distinguished alumni of the landscape architecture program at the University of Florida.
Barbara L. Deutsch, ASLA, is a landscape architect and arborist, who has worked on re-greening cities from Hong Kong to Washington, DC. She currently serves as senior director for Casey Trees in Washington, DC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring and protecting the tree canopy of the Nation's Capital, where she leads development of its innovative tree inventory, education programs, and green infrastructure research to facilitate wide-scale implementation, and the first green roof on a commercial building in DC.
Thomas Doolittle, ASLA, is a landscape architect who specializes in large-scale urban transportation projects and in developing comfortable pedestrian environments as part of streetscape, highway, and other infrastructure projects. He also specializes in public involvement processes and has received awards for quality and inclusiveness. He has presented on transportation and pedestrian design issues at the National Pedestrian Conference, Transportation Research Board, Walk21, and other conferences. He serves on the board of WalkBoston, a pedestrian advocacy group.
Beth Dunlop, is an architecture critic and author. She is the architecture critic of The Miami Herald, and is a regular contributor to House & Garden Magazine (where she writes a column entitled House of Worship, as well as other articles) and to Metropolitan Home, among other publications. She is the author of numerous books, including Miami Trends and Traditions, Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture, A House for My Mother: Architects Build for their Families, and Florida’s Vanishing Architecture. Her work has garnered numerous journalism awards. She also wrote the film script for a public television documentary entitled Vanishing Florida, which won a regional Emmy. She is vice chair of Miami Beach’s Historic Preservation Board, acting chair of the Miami Design Preservation League, an advisor to Manitoga/The Russel Wright Design Center, and a member of the International Women’s Forum. Beth is a a graduate of Vassar College and resides in Miami.
Mark Francis, FASLA, has been a professor of landscape architecture at the University of California at Davis for more than 25 years. His specialty is cultural influences on landscape design including social design, behavioral mapping, and garden programming. Mark has won numerous ASLA awards. He has also authored several ASLA LATIS publications and books carried by the ASLA Bookstore, and has served as editor for many other publications and periodicals.
Kathleen A. Garcia, FASLA, LEED AP,
is a landscape architect and planner with over 25 years of experience
in a broad range of design projects with a focus on the environment. Registered
as a landscape architect in both California and Arizona, Ms. Garcia’s
experience extends from waterfront and municipal park projects to those
that are institutional in nature. She has concentrated her career on significant
open space systems; urban infill and redevelopment planning; and university
planning and design. Ms. Garcia serves as director of Wallace Roberts
& Todd, Inc.’s San Diego operations. Wallace Roberts & Todd,
Inc. is an award-winning national multidisciplinary firm of architects,
landscape architects, urban planners and environmental designers. Kathleen
heads up the firm’s Green Council, dedicated to ensuring sustainable
and ecologically sensitive design.
In addition to her professional practice, Ms. Garcia is active in citizen
and professional committees. She has been recently elected as a Fellow
of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Ms. Garcia is
a member of the American Planning Association and serves on the California
Chapter’s Board. She also holds membership in Lambda Alpha International,
a land economics society.
Donald H. Godi, FASLA, is a landscape architect and arborist with more than 38 years experience in design, project management, and construction observation. He provides insight as a expert witness and plant appraiser, drawing on his experience as the chair of the Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado (ALCC) Arbitration Committee. Donald is a registered consulting arborist with the American Society of Consulting Arborists (ASCA). He is a frequent lecturer for seminars in risk management, construction management, and design principles for landscape architects and contractors.
David E. Goldberg, ASLA, is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Chatham College, where he teaches computer technology courses including graphic communication, computer-aided design, geographic information systems, interactive multimedia design, and stormwater management. He has practiced at the university, multi-disciplinary office, and landscape architectural design firm levels, planning and deploying various information technological solutions. David has been recognized by the ASLA Awards Program for both his academic and professional work.
Christopher Guillard, is a founding principal with CMG landscape architecture. In addition to the award winning and nationally recognized work of CMG, his project experience includes work with the internationally acclaimed firm of Hargreaves Associates. Chris' open approach, empathy with users and focus on issues of public open space, sustainability and urbanism guides his work as a leader and collaborator. In 2001, he received the outstanding alumni award from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech and he frequently lectures and teaches on landscape urbanism and design.
Eric Harrison, is a director of development for Redwood City Industrial Saltworks. Eric's responsibilities include land development activities (preparing the site for vertical development) including off-site improvements. In addition, Eric will work with the entitlement team to assist in gaining the required approvals through the various governmental agencies. Prior to joining the DMB team, Eric was with Signature Properties, a Bay Area based developer and home builder. His responsibilities included property acquisition including due diligence, developing and implementing entitlement strategies and preparation of budgets. He was responsible for managing infill developments within the bay area, ranging in size from a 125 unit mixed use development to reuse of a manufacturing site creating a 3,000 unit mixed use transit-oriented community in San Jose. Eric received an undergraduate and a graduate degree from California State University Long Beach.
Judith Heintz, ASLA, is a landscape architect with over 30 years of experience. She has been active in the public landscapes of New York and the Tri-state area since 1980. Her work includes master planning and large- and small-scale design, ranging from landscape restoration at the 2,400 acre Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island to the design of neighborhood parks and playgrounds. She began her work in New York in the multi-disciplinary design office of the Central Park Conservancy, managing a large and complex team of consultants charged with the restoration and management of the Park. She was a coauthor of the plan for rebuilding the Park (published by MIT Press). From her earliest projects at Battery Park City, Judith has promoted sustainable design, integrating storm-water management, materials re-use, and low-maintenance xeriscape plantings. Working with site specific environmental, cultural, programmatic and aesthetic qualities, and with an eye toward sustainability, she develops designs that use a minimum of management and natural resources, yet provide places for community, contemplation, and civic expression.
Jeff Hebert, is a senior planner and manages Concordia’s planning portfolio. Currently, he is spending the bulk of his time managing the Educational Facilities Master Plan for the rebuilding of New Orleans’ public schools. Other projects include neighborhood plans in New Orleans and community development and educational facilities consulting in Philadelphia and Camden, NJ. Formerly, Jeff served as director of community planning for the Louisiana Recovery Authority. At the LRA, Jeff co-managed the Louisiana Speaks Planning process and served as the state’s representative to the Unified New Orleans Plan (UNOP) leadership team. Jeff created the $75 mil Louisiana “Katrina Cottage” Housing Program and managed the $200 mil Long Term Community Recovery Program targeted to finance community-driven local recovery plans. In addition, Jeff created the $3 mil Planning Capacity Building Program to fund additional planning staff in communities affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Prior to joining the LRA, Jeff was manager of Sustainable Redevelopment Programs for the Pennsylvania Environmental Council in Philadelphia and was a project manager for the Downtown Brooklyn Redevelopment Plan in New York City. Other experience includes two years at the Neighborhood Preservation Center in New York City and project internships with the New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Endangered Buildings Initiative and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Metropolitan Capacity Building Program. A native Louisianian, Jeff received a bachelor’s degree in urban design & architecture Studies from New York University and a master’s degree in city planning from M.I.T.
Gary R. Hilderbrand, FASLA, is principal of Reed Hilderbrand Associates, Inc. He is also widely published as an author and critic on twentieth century landscape architecture practice, contributing essays in numerous books and journals and serving on the editorial board of Harvard Design Magazine. His monograph Making a Landscape of Continuity: The Practice of Innocenti & Webel was recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects and its Boston Chapter and also won the AIGA Award for Outstanding Book Design. His monograph The Miller Garden: Icon of Modernism, published with photographer Alan Ward and architectural critic David Dillon, was part of a series awarded the ASLA President’s Honor Award in 2000. His firm has won numerous awards, including three national design awards in one year from the ASLA (2003).
Gary holds degrees from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he has taught
since 1990. He was inducted into the ALSA Council of Fellows in 2001.
Currently, Gary is an adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture
at Harvard and is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome (FAAR).
Dean Hill, ASLA, is the president and lead designer for Terratecture, a design studio in Indianapolis, which specializes in high-end residential and subdivision site development landscape architectural services. He has over 15 years experience in the design/build and landscape construction sector. He can also be seen as co-host/landscape architect on “Grounds For Improvement”, a landscape cable show broadcast on the DIY Network. Hill also is a weekly landscape/home improvement segment contributor to Indianapolis NBC affiliate WTHR-TV. Hill is very active at both the national and local levels of ASLA. He currently sits on the 2006 Annual Meeting Steering Committee and has recently completed a two-year term on the ASLA Policy Committee. During Hill’s tenure as INASLA president, he sat on various Chapter Presidents Council subcommittees and was nominated for CPC chair-elect. Dean holds a master’s of landscape architecture degree from the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Hill also completed his undergraduate studies in telecommunications at Ball State University.
Joseph M. Howard, ASLA, is a registered landscape architect in California and currently heads the landscape architecture group within the Restoration Division of H.T. Harvey & Associates, a San Francisco Bay area ecological consulting firm. His work focuses solely on restoration-oriented planning and design primarily related to sensitive species. Joe is active in the ASLA Restoration and Reclamation Professional Practice Network. He has taught at the UC Berkeley Extension and is a frequent guest lecturer at local colleges. He completed his MLA at the University of Michigan.
Richard Jackson, MD, is adjunct professor of environmental health and of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in many leadership positions with the California Health Department, including State Health Officer. For nine years he was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta, GA. In 2005, he was recognized with the highest civilian award for U.S. government service, the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award.
Todd Johnson, ASLA, maintains that, in his practice, his goal is to attract and nurture smart people to become great leaders of landscape architecture. "My greatest accomplishment," he offers, "is to make my colleagues more capable than I was." Others may demur on that point, citing the distinctive built work that has been one of Johnson's trademarks throughout a career in which he has led the design efforts behind many award-winning projects that have earned recognition from ASLA, the American Institute of Architects, Urban Land Institute, Congress for the New Urbanism, and Progressive Architecture Magazine.
Projects like Larimer Square, the Denver Riverfront Commons, 16th Street
Mall Extension, and Jefferson County Government Center have become major
destinations, attracting thousands of visitors and enriching multiple
lives. His enthusiasm for the profession has created public awareness
of landscape architecture as key to shaping urban and natural landscapes,
exerting a positive influence on communities and the environment. His
leadership in the profession has been guided by three principles that
define the essence of his work: maintaining stewardship of the land, creating
distinctive built works, and enlightening young people and colleagues
about the responsibility and power of the profession his work has embraced
and enhanced.
Barrett L. Kays, ASLA, is a nationally recognized landscape architect and environmental and soil scientist with specialties in sustainable environmental design, soil, groundwater, and surficial hydrologic science. Barrett consults on agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional development projects across the United States. He serves as an expert in soil science and urban soil management.
P. Annie Kirk, ASLA, has cross-discipline training in landscape architecture, social work, and biomedical research, which compliments her specialty in the design and advocacy of therapeutic landscapes and healing gardens. She is a recognized expert in the field and strives to bridge professional divide through communication, design stewardship, and the steadfast application of current research findings. She is the founder and director of the Acer Institute, principal of Red Bird Design, and chair of special programs for the ASLA Healthcare and Therapeutic Design Professional Practice Network.
G. Mathias (Matt) Kondolf, is a fluvial geomorphologist specializing in environmental river management and restoration of rivers/streams. An associate professor at UC-Berkeley, he is a principal investigator in the National River Restoration Science Synthesis project, a member of the Environmental Advisory Board to the Chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and a member of the National Research Council Committee on Hydrology, Ecology, and Fishes of the Klamath River Basin. He co-authored the report, ReEnvisioning the Delta, and organized a symposium discussing urbanization of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, its potential impacts, and alternative futures.
Helen S. Kuykendall, is a landscape architect for Denver Parks and Recreation, with primary responsibilities for revitalizating Denver's Civic Center and its largest and oldest regional park, City Park. Her work includes overseeing millions of dollars of restoration and rehabilitation projects and implementing a strategic approach to better manage Denver's historic parks and parkways. Prior to joining the city of Denver in 1999, Helen was a landscape architect for 14 years at the National Park Service (NPS), Denver Service Center.
Andrew R. Lavallee, ASLA, RLA, CSI is a senior associate at Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects located in New York, NY. Over the past 17 years, he has designed a broad range public, private and institutional landscapes throughout the United States and abroad. Currently, Andrew is collaborating on the design of two large-scale public projects in New York City: the South Bronx Greenway and Hudson River Park.
Hui-Li Lee, ASLA, BLA -Tunghai University, Taiwan, MLA - University of Pennsylvania, is a registered landscape architect in California.
Mark Lindhult, FASLA, is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a partner with The Berkshire Design Group, Inc. of Northampton, MA. Since 1978, Mark has been active in the application of computers to landscape architectural problems. He was the first computer editor for Landscape Architecture magazine and chair of ASLA's computer committee for four years. In 2007, he co-authored Digital Land: Integrating Digital Technology into the Land Planning Process.
Elizabeth Macdonald, is an assistant professor of city planning and urban design at the University of California at Berkeley. She is a partner in the San Francisco-based urban design firm Cityworks. Elizabeth's recent books include The Boulevard Book and The Urban Design Reader. She received a bachelor's degree in architecture, a master's in city planning, and a Ph.D. in city planning and landscape architecture from UC Berkeley.
José L. Magán, Associate ASLA, studied architecture at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, and worked as an architect for five years. He successfully completed master's degrees in architecture and in landscape architecture at Ball State University and has subsequently developed academic programs as a university professor in Mexico and in Colombia. In 1999, he settled in the Chicago area, where he now works in urban design and landscape architecture in public and private projects in the United States and abroad.
Bill Marken, Honorary ASLA, is editor-in-chief of Garden Design, the leading magazine of stylish gardening, innovative landscape design, and gracious outdoor living. Marken has spent his professional career in magazine and book publishing. He served for 15 years as editor-in-chief of Sunset Magazine, the Western regional lifestyle magazine with a circulation of 1,500,000 and an emphasis on home and landscape design, travel, and entertaining. He was founding editor-in-chief of Rebecca’s Garden Magazine, based on the popular syndicated television show, published by Hearst Corp. As editor-n-chief of eHow.com, he led the contextual commerce site to the Nielsen/Net Ratings’ top 10 information sites; he is the author of How to Fix Just About Everything, which grew out of eHow.com. He also was co-author of Gardening for Dummies (second edition), editorial director of Williams Sonoma’s Taste magazine, and consulting editor and columnist for Garden.com. Marken received a National Magazine Award for Service to the Individual and the American Horticultural Society’s Horticultural Communication Award. Marken is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Christopher M. Marlow, ASLA, is a licensed landscape architect and assistant professor at the Ball State University Department of Landscape Architecture. Following several years as a site planner for Flad & Associates, he spent three years as an assistant professor at LSU's School of Landscape Architecture. Chris teaches site engineering, computer applications, and site design. Among his creative interests and scholarly pursuits are site grading and drainage (digital landform design, modeling, and construction documentation), and designing visualization tools and other teaching aids.
Steve Martino, FASLA, has earned a national reputation for consistent design excellence. Martino’s pioneering work with native plant material and the development of a desert-derived design aesthetic is widely recognized. A recurring theme of his work has been the dramatic juxtaposition of man-made elements with ecological processes. Celebrating the special characteristics of the desert has always been a passion. Built projects consistently addressed the difficult conflicts of contemporary expectations in an environment whose foundation is a fragile desert landscape. His designs strive to make evident the positive aspects of our relation to history and the landscape and inspire people to live in ways that promote the health of the natural world.
His works have been published nationally and internationally in over 80 books and 280 periodicals. The extensive publication of his work has generated a greater public awareness of the unique qualities of the Southwest’s desert environment. He is the recipient of ASLA’s Award of Excellence for the 2006 Professional Design Awards. He is also the recipient of the 2006 ASLA Design Medal.
Brice Maryman, ASLA, is a landscape designer for Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture and a lecturer at University of Washington's Department of Landscape Architecture. He serves on the board of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, the Friends of Seattle's Olmsted Parks, and the Seattle Great City Initiative. Brice co-directed Open Space Seattle 2100.
Richard McPherson, is a San Francisco Bay Area based landscape architect specializing residential gardens and commercial landscapes. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, and for many years was an instructor in the university's extension division. He has taught extensive field study courses and is a frequent speaker on the legacy of Thomas Church and the modernist garden. His Bay Area gardens and articles have appeared in many books and magazines, including Pacific Horticulture, Fine Gardening, and Better Homes and Garden, and books by Taunton Press.
Michael Mehaffy, is executive director of the recently formed Sustasis Foundation, a research and development nonprofit, and president of Structura Naturalis Inc., an urban planning consultancy in Portland, Oregon. He was a consultant on three Hurricane Katrina recovery planning teams in Mississippi and Louisiana. He served with the Duany Plater-Zyberk team in the citizen-led Gentilly Community Charrette, and later served in the Unified New Orleans Plan for District 6, where he spearheaded the planning for neighborhood rebuilding centers. He is a well-known author and educator, and former director of education for the Prince's Foundation in London. He is a long-time associate of the architect and mathematician Christopher Alexander, and he shares an interest in effective new bottom-up and emergent tools in planning and design.
Margaret E. Mori, FASLA, more than organized over 130 professional events in regional, national, and international arenas. More than 10,000 people have benefited from her efforts. In 2005, Margaret was elected as an ASLA Fellow.
Amy Neches, is a senior project manager for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. She directs the Agency's efforts in the Mission Bay, Yerba Buena and Rincon Point-South Beach Redevelopment Areas, overseeing large-scale urban redevelopment planning and implementation efforts. She was the Redevelopment Agency's manager and one of the City's lead negotiators for the 1998 development entitlements for the 303-acre master planned Mission Bay project. She joined the Redevelopment Agency in 1995, following three years in affordable housing development and finance. Her previous experience includes six years in investment banking in New York, including two years as a vice president at Solomon Smith Barney, concentrating in mortgage and asset-backed securities. Amy holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from Yale University. She is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), the San Francisco District Council Executive Committee, and Lambda Alpha International, an honorary land economics society.
Douglas M. Nelson, ASLA, is a partner with the landscape architecture firm of Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey. He is the co-author of the Golden Gate Park Master Plan and was responsible for the park's listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Since the completion of the park's master plan, Doug has been involved in several design projects in the park including the reconstruction of the music concourse and several of the park's lakes.
Andrew Nothstine, is a planner for Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin in Orlando, FL, where he works primarily with private development clients. Andrew has become the firm's affordable housing expert and recently published a widely distributed report, New Directions in Affordable Housing. Prior to joining Glatting Jackson in 2005, Andrew was a presidential management fellow with the Federal Transit Administration in Washington, D.C. Andrew has a master's degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was awarded the AICP Outstanding Student Award.
Laurie D. Olin, FASLA,
is among America’s most distinguished landscape architects practicing
today. His projects include Bryant Park and Battery Park City in New York,
The J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles, new squares in London, housing
in Frankfurt, commercial development in Barcelona, and major planning
and design projects at academic institutions including the University
of Pennsylvania, Yale University, Stanford University, MIT, and the University
of Virginia. His design for replacing the temporary security barriers
at the Washington Monument with a permanent, secure, yet attractive, solution
is currently under construction and being hailed as a demonstration that
security design and good design need not be mutually exclusive.
Olin is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, an American Academy of Rome Fellow,
an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 1999 Wyck-Strickland Award
recipient, and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Olin won the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture in 1974 and was the
recipient of the 1998 Award in Architecture from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters. He is currently a trustee of the American Academy
in Rome.
He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and has served as chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University and the Thomas Jefferson professor of architecture at the University of Virginia. Since 1998, he has been professor of practice in landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
Christopher Overdorf, ASLA, is a principal with Jones & Jones with nearly 20 years of experience in a broad range of land use projects including visual impact assessment, transportation planning, zoological design, environmental art, park planning, and recreation design. He specializes in advanced GIS-based planning and design technologies, and recently managed the development of the award-winning Intrinsic Landscape Aesthetic Resource Information System (ILARIS) cataloging and modeling tool. He studied computer science and remote sensing at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and landscape architecture at Washington State University.
Christine G. Pattillo, ASLA, is the founding partner of PGA design, a 12-person landscape architecture firm practicing in Oakland, CA, and specializing in historic landscape preservation. Chris is co-chair of the Northern California chapter of HALS and co-vice chair of the ASLA Historic Preservation Professional Practice Network. She has recently completed work on the Victorian Stanford Mansion in Sacramento and the adobe-walled garden at Casa Amsti in Monterey.
Steven Peck, Honorary ASLA, is executive director for Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. He has written extensively on the topic of green roof design, policy, and research and has spoken on the subject at conferences throughout North America and internationally. Steven is currently leading the organization of a World Green Roof Network that will encourage the formation of green roof industry associations throughout the world.
Kevin R. Perry, ASLA, is a nationally recognized leader in successfully integrating sustainable storm water management with high-quality urban design. He has designed and managed nearly a dozen of Portland's most prominent green street and rain garden projects. Kevin's ability to meld the concepts of art, education, and ecological function has earned him several design awards including a 2006 ASLA Design Award of Honor for the SW 12th Avenue Green Street. His work has also been featured in both Landscape Architecture Magazine and Storm water Magazine. Kevin is a green street specialist with the Portland-based landscape architecture firm Nevue Ngan Associates.
April Philips, ASLA, is founder and president of the award winning April Philips Design Works, Inc., a landscape architecture and planning firm located in Sausalito, CA. The firm's focus is on creating environments that reconcile the complex relationships between built and natural systems, a process she calls a fusion of art, sustainability, and technology.
Deborah Poodry, has led strategic program management, planning, and design teams on institutional and public facility projects totaling more than $5 billion and provided capital planning/design programs for institutional facility portfolios. She served as MIT's director of campus planning, design, and capital project development and has served as principal and director of large multi-disciplinary design firms. She led architecture, planning, and participation efforts on Boston's Central Artery Project. She holds degrees in architecture and city planning from MIT and Rice University.
Mark W. Rios, FASLA, has been the leader of both the design and the business direction of Rios Clementi Hale Studios since establishing the firm in 1985. He has built a practice that has an award-winning tradition across an unprecedented range of design disciplines. Mark is an associate professor at the USC School of Architecture and Director of the Landscape Architecture Department. His continued focus is on the quality of the design work, as the scale and complexity of the firm’s projects grow.
Nancy Rottle, ASLA, has been a practicing landscape architect for more than 15 years and is currently an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Washington. She has worked with and published about the Mountains to Sound Greenway and co-directed Open Space Seattle 2100.
Margie Ruddick, ASLA, through nearly 20 years of practice, authorship and teaching, Margie has pioneered an approach to landscape design that blends a distinct aesthetic expression with ecological purpose. Each of her projects arises from its particular context, addressing clients' objectives hand-in-hand with a site's natural systems and its social, architectural, historical, cultural and economic frameworks. She works with clients to create memorable places that tread lightly on the earth. Her design gives voice to the spirit of a place, while working in concert with its ecological systems. Margie has been recognized for integrating the highest level of design with an intense focus on natural systems, even in the most urban projects. Her designs for Shillim Eco-Resort in Maharashtra, India, and the Living Water Park in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, have successfully bridged gaps between ecology and design, between different disciplines such as engineering, science and art, and between international communities. Her transformative design for Queens Plaza in New York City has been recognized for its ambition in bringing a new idea of nature to the city, where storm water, wind, sun , and habitat are integrated using low-tech methods to create a more sustainable vision of urban life.
Margie has always combined practice with teaching. At Harvard Design School in 1995 and 2006, at Yale University, The University of Pennsylvania’s Design School, Parsons School of Design, and she has been invited back to teach in 2007 at Schumacher College, in Devon, UK, in their internationally recognized sustainable design program. In November of 2004, Margie merged her practice with Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC, where she currently serves as a principal.
Scott C. Scarfone, ASLA, is a landscape architect and certified professional horticulturist. Scott is the principal and founder of Oasis Design Group based in Baltimore. He practices nationally on private and corporate gardens, public gardens, campuses, and in our great cities. Recently, he completed a Fellowship at Chanticleer-a pleasure garden in Wayne, PA. During the fellowship he traveled the world studying gardens and urban parks. He lectures and teaches a broad range of topics across the country. Scott has recently published with John Wiley & Sons a book titled, 'Professional Planting Design - An Architectural and Horticultural Approach to Creating Mixed Bed Plantings.'
Peter Lindsay Schaudt, FASLA, FAAR, president/design principal, of Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture, Inc., Chicago, IL, since 1991. Peter is an accomplished landscape architect who has won numerous design awards including six ASLA national and state awards and the coveted Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture. He has helped to enhance Chicago's lakefront green spaces by adding 17 new acres of parkland and using innovative green roof techniques. Peter has worked on the design of three NFL stadium landscapes, advancing the "stadium in a park" theme.
Pam C. Schooley, ASLA, is a landscape architect and project manager with the Parks and Recreation Department of the city and county of Denver in Colorado. Pam's expertise in working with cultural landscapes has earned her a planning position with responsibilities for many of Denver's architecturally and historically significant parks. Currently, she is managing the park assessment and park master plan for Cheesman Park, a regional park in Denver's densest and most diverse neighborhoods, and developing citywide master plans for key recreation amenities such as playgrounds.
Martha Schwartz, ASLA, is a landscape architect and artist with a major interest in urban projects and the exploration of new design expression in the landscape. Her background is in both fine arts and landscape architecture. As principal of Martha Schwartz Partners in Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, UK, her goal is to find opportunities where landscape design solutions can enhance the social, environmental, and economic sustainability of a place and raise them to a level of fine art. She has over 29 years of experience as a landscape architect and artist collaborating with a variety of world-renowned architects on a diverse portfolio of projects. Ms. Schwartz is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum National Design Award for her body of work in landscape architecture, a fellowship from the Urban Design Institute, an honorary fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects, several design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and visiting residencies at Radcliffe College and the American Academy in Rome. Ms. Schwartz is also a professor of landscape architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where she has taught since 1992. She has lectured both nationally and internationally about landscape. Her work has been featured widely in publications as well as gallery exhibitions. Recent projects include the Mesa Center for the Arts in Arizona,a Master Plan for Lulu Island in the United Arab Emirates, the Swiss Re Headquarters in Munich, Germany, and Barclay's Bank headquarters in London, UK.
Kevin M. Shanley, ASLA, president of SWA, has repeatedly been honored by ASLA, its Texas Chapter, various AIA chapters, and landscape construction and environmental organizations for his national and international work. He has received six ASLA national awards and led his firm to win the ASLA Firm Award in 2005. He has worked on significant natural systems projects, planned communities and town centers, large commercial projects, and innovative transportation projects. He is particularly talented at solving three-dimensional site planning puzzles, whether in complex natural landforms or in urban environments.
Stephen R. J. Sheppard, ASLA , teaches landscape planning, aesthetics, and visualization in landscape architecture and forestry at UBC. He has degrees from Oxford and UBC, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley. He directs the Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP) which uses visualization and perception-testing to support public communications and collaborative planning on sustainability. He has 30 years of experience in visual analysis, environmental assessment and public participation internationally. He has written/co-written three books on visual simulation and linking sustainability and aesthetics. His research focuses on visualization ethics, making stewardship visible in the landscape, and public perceptions of climate change.
Troy Sibelius, CIC, ASLA is vice president of Keller-Lowry Insurance in Denver, CO.
James L. Sipes, ASLA, is an award-winning landscape architect with more than 25 years of experience including environmental planning and design, watershed management, park and recreation design, urban design, natural and cultural resource management, and community-based design. He has extensive experience with integrating digital technology into design and planning. He has written more than 300 articles for a variety of magazines, has been featured in the "Shared Wisdom" section of Landscape Architecture magazine, and has received numerous planning, design, and communication awards.
Ken Smith, ASLA, is a landscape architect who has worked on a wide variety of national and international projects, in both private and public practice. His background and training is in landscape architecture and the fine arts. In 20 years of practice he has participated in many team endeavors and worked with a wide range of consultants and groups. His interests include landscape design of varying scale with a particular emphasis on projects, which explore the symbolic content and expressive power of landscape as an art form. He is committed to creating landscapes, especially parks and other public spaces, with vision and meaning as a way of improving the quality of urban life. Smith is licensed to practice in New York, California, and other states, and has lectured and been published widely. Educated at Iowa State University and Harvard University Graduate School of Design, his practice is based in New York City. He is active as an educator and serves as a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His breadth of experience, understanding of landscape issues and capacity to undertake complex problems and difficult sites qualify him for a wide variety and scale of projects.
Nancy Somerville, joined ASLA in 2000 after 18 years with the American Institute of Architects as executive vice president and CEO. She directs the Society’s 50-person staff in raising the visibility of the landscape architecture profession and on positioning it at the forefront of environmental design issues. In 2006, Nancy proposed that ASLA replace the conventional roof on its downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters with a green roof, a project that has been a resounding success in terms of performance, esthetics, and public relations. She is a much sought-after author and speaker on this topic. A native of the Washington, D.C. area, Nancy received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her master’s from Stanford University. She resides in Kensington, Maryland, with her son Andrew, age 14.
Jeff Speck, AICP, LEED, is a city planner and urban designer who is known for helping civic leaders make their communities more livable. He currently works as a private consultant offering design and advisory services to public officials and to the real estate industry.
As director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, Jeff was responsible for all NEA grant-making in the many fields that constitute design. He directed two NEA leadership initiatives, the Mayors' Institute on City Design and Your Town, both of which teach design skills to community leaders nationwide. He also created and ran a new initiative, the Governors' Institute on Community Design, which is bringing smart growth principles and techniques to state leadership.
Prior to joining the Endowment, he spent ten years as director of town planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk and Co., Architects and Town Planners. DPZ is a leader in the international movement called the New Urbanism, which promotes alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment.
Jeff was recently named a contributing editor of Metropolis magazine. With Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, he is the co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, which the Wall Street Journal calls "the urbanist's bible.”
Nancy Stack, has spent more than 20 years working for state and municipal organizations and leading planning and design processes for building and site development projects. For Boston's Central Artery Project, she served as the owner's representative for the development of streetscape design in downtown Boston. Nancy was design team project manager for the reconstruction of Vassar Street on the MIT campus. Currently, she serves on the owner's representative team for the streetscape component of Harvard University's Allston campus development project.
James K. Stickley, ASLA, is a landscape architect and urban designer with over 25 years experience in urban design, community design and planning, and landscape architecture. His experience on a number of complex projects domestically and internationally has spanned the full spectrum from large scale planning to detailed design and implementation. Jim has extensive experience in developing plans to enhance urban areas and public space including complex projects involving community interaction where cultural and ecological expressions are at the forefront. Jim serves as director of WRT's San Francisco office and oversees landscape architecture and urban design projects in that office.
Lee R. Skabelund, ASLA, is anassistant professor in landscape architecture and regional and community planning at Kansas State University. He has taught courses in landscape ecology, land analysis and site planning, environmental issues and ethics, landscape planning, and management. He has worked in both public and private practice, led a team on the Sustainable Development of Forestlands project, and initiated the community-supported Tom's Creek Riparian Restoration project. He is currently co-chair of ASLA's Reclamation and Restoration Professional Practice Network.
Susan Szenasy, Honorary ASLA, has served as editor-in-chief of Metropolis, the New York City-based magazine of architecture, culture, and design, since 1986. Szenasy’s training in design journalism was on the job, beginning with Interiors magazine, where she rose from a junior position of editorial assistant to senior editor. She was then named chief editor of Residential Interiors, the short-lived offspring of Interiors. Szenasy is the author of several books on design, including The Home and Light. She holds an MA degree in Modern European History from Rutgers University and teaches design history and ethics at New York’s Parsons School of Design. In 2003, Szenasy received an honorary doctorate of arts from Kendall College of Art & Design. She is a frequent lecturer and panel moderator on broad-ranging design topics, and the guiding light behind Metropolis Conferences, which she also facilitates. She is the co-founder of R.Dot (Rebuild Downtown Our Town), a coalition of New Yorkers who came together after the 9/11 tragedies to contribute their expertise to building the 21st century metropolis at the site of the former World Trade Center.
Elizabeth "Boo" Thomas, is the president and CEO of the Center for Planning Excellence in Baton Rouge. Elizabeth is very well versed in local community planning activities. Since obtaining her master's degree in landscape architecture from LSU, she has led neighborhood redevelopment efforts in Baton Rouge and has been a strong advocate for smart growth planning while serving on many boards. She has been recognized by the Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA, Business Report, LSU and the Louisiana Architecture Foundation. Recently, she has been involved with the rebuilding after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by assisting with model plans for recovering communities.
Joachim (Toby) Tourbier, was an adjunct professor and research director at the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1993 he has been a profession of landscape architecture and construction and chairman of the landscape architecture department at the Dresden University of Technology in Germany. His main focus in research and teaching is water resources management in landscape architecture with emphasis on stormwater management and river restoration. Joachim has authored numerous publications and holds a landscape architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Suzanne Turner, FASLA, is a consultant for historic and cultural landscapes, particularly those of the South. Recent projects that she has collaborated on include Drayton Hall in Charleston, South Carolina; Oakland Plantation in Natchitoches, Louisiana; Ragdale House in Lake Forest, Illinois; and Mepkin Abbey in South Carolina. Turner is co-author of The Gardens of Louisiana: Places of Work and Wonder, and numerous book chapters and articles on the history, preservation, and interpretation of the cultural landscapes of the South.
Turner recently retired as professor emerita from Louisiana State University where during her 25 year tenure she served as interim director of the School of Landscape Architecture, coordinator of its graduate program, and associate dean of the College of Design. Turner is co-founder and board president of the Baton Rouge Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance, which runs a farmers’ market, a public market, and provides outreach to low-resource small farmers.
Roger Ulrich, Honorary ASLA , is a fellow and director of the Center for Health Systems and Design and a professor at Texas A&M University. He conducts research on the effects of healthcare gardens within medical buildings on patient clinical outcomes. Roger has published extensively and is the most cited researcher internationally in the area of evidenced-based healthcare environmental design. He has been a reviewer for more than 15 journals, including Environment and Behavior, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Journal of Environmental Psychology, and Landscape Journal.
James R. Urban, FASLA, nationally recognized landscape architect involved in integration of landscape architecture and soil site investigations. James has been a frequent presenter at ASLA meetings. He is particularly well known for his skill in area of urban arboriculture and soils including the preservation and installation of trees in the urban environment and the development and installation of specialized planting soils for green roof, roof gardens and urban landscape plantings. Urban Trees + Soil works on commercial projects in Chicago, New York, Kansas City and Washington D.C.
Annette P. Wilkus, ASLA, is a registered landscape architect and LEEDT accredited professional with more than 26 years of experience in design, construction documentation, and construction management. She holds landscape architecture degrees from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Pennsylvania as well as a construction management certificate from New York University. Her firm, SiteWorks LLC, focuses on construction management and provides both site and landscape implementation expertise on construction sites. SiteWorks is currently working on projects designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Olin Partnership, and Field Operations.
Brenda W. Williams, ASLA, is a landscape architect and an associate with Quinn Evans | Architects, a firm committed to the preservation of historic structures and cultural landscapes. Brenda's work includes significant public landscapes such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, Hot Springs National Park, Apostle Islands National Park, U.S. Grant National Historic Site, Springhill Ranch at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, South Manitou Island at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Ferry Hill at C&O Canal National Historical Park, and Chellberg Farm at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
Jack Williams, graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in ornamental horticulture and floriculture in 1979. From 1979 to 1984, he managed a specialty propagation nursery focusing on production of liners of various flowering potted plants. In 1984, he joined the horticultural staff of the Eke Ranch in California, the world's premier breeder of poinsettia and other Euphorbia. Currently, Jack is working with breeders of flowering crops from around the world to evaluate new genetics and introduce these innovative new plants based on nursery and field performance.