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Visit the Smart Policies for a Changing Climate Exhibition
Open to the public Monday through Friday, 10AM to 4PM
636 I Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20001
The exhibition features 20 case studies demonstrating how landscape architecture helps communities become more resilient to climate change. The exhibition also features solutions, recommendations, and principles from the Smart Policies for a Changing Climate report. Learn more.
Past Events
Responsive Landscapes | Intelligent Wilds
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Bradley Cantrell, ASLA, the chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, in conversation with Bradford McKee, Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018, at 7:00 p.m.
ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture
636 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
$15 General Admission
Free for students with valid student ID.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Registration is required: http://bit.ly/LL4Cantrell
Registration closes on March 12, 2018. No tickets will be available at the door.
1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
The interface between anthropogenic and evolved systems requires dissolving boundaries and erasing hierarchies within human and nonhuman agents. To do this, landscape architects must develop new tools and methodologies that engage computation and construction to form tighter connections between culture and biology. This talk will explore these boundaries and hierarchies through the physical and cultural definitions of wilderness in the context of new technologies that enable local and remote sensing, long-term monitoring, and machine intelligence.
Recognized as one of the leading researchers working in the areas of computation and environmental and ecological design, Bradley Cantrell brings together emergent technologies and landscape processes. His work in the area of Intelligent Wilds was recently featured in “Ecology on Autopilot,” in the June 2017 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. His books include Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture, Modeling the Environment, and, with Justine Holzman, Associate ASLA, Responsive Landscapes.
For questions, please contact Jennifer Reut, Senior Editor, at jreut@asla.org.
The Landscape Architecture Magazine Lecture Series brings together design professionals, educators, and thinkers in conversation around provocative issues in the field of landscape architecture.
The Landscape Architecture Magazine Lecture Series is supported by Victor Stanley.
Landscapes as Chromatic Relationships
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Gareth Doherty is an assistant professor of landscape architecture and senior research associate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he is also director of the master in landscape architecture program. He is the author of Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State, published in 2017 by the University of California Press. Previous publications include Is Landscape…? Essays on the Identity of Landscape, edited with Charles Waldheim (Routledge, 2016), and Ecological Urbanism, edited with Mohsen Mostafavi (Lars Müller Publishers, 2010, revised in 2016). Doherty is a founding editor of the New Geographies journal and editor-in-chief of New Geographies 3: Urbanisms of Color. His latest book, Landscape as Art and Ecology: Lectures by Roberto Burle Marx, is forthcoming from Lars Müller Publishers.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017, at 7:00 p.m.
ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture
636 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
$15 General Admission
Free for students with valid student ID.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Registration is required: bit.ly/LAMLectureSeries3.
1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
For questions, please contact Jennifer Reut, Senior Editor, at jreut@asla.org.
The Landscape Architecture Magazine Lecture Series brings together design professionals, educators, and thinkers in conversation around provocative issues in the field of landscape architecture.
The Landscape Architecture Magazine Lecture Series is supported by Victor Stanley.
The Ecologies of Resource Management: Water as a Development Tool in Rural India
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Alpa Nawre is Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at University of Florida, and Partner at her design practice, Alpa Nawre Design. She is a recipient of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Award for Excellence in Design Studio Teaching, the Dumbarton Oaks Mellon Fellowship in Urban Landscape Studies, and is a current Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Fellow for Innovation and Leadership. She holds a Masters degree in Urban Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University, and a Bachelor in Architecture from NIT, Raipur, India. She has worked internationally in design offices in India, USA, UAE and Switzerland and serves on the editorial board of JAE, the Journal of Architectural Education.
Thursday, September 7, 2017, at 7:00 p.m.
ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture
636 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
$15 General Admission
Free for students with valid student ID for 2016–17 or 2017–2018.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided.
Registration is required: bit.ly/LAMLectureSeries2.
1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
For questions, please contact Jennifer Reut, Senior Editor, at jreut@asla.org.
The Landscape Architecture Magazine Lecture Series brings together design professionals, educators, and thinkers in conversation around provocative issues in the field of landscape architecture.
The Landscape Architecture Magazine Lecture Series is supported by Victor Stanley.
Beyond Sustaining Beauty: Aesthetic Entanglements with Climate Change Science
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Elizabeth Meyer, FASLA, the Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, in conversation with Bradford McKee, Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Professor Elizabeth Meyer’s decade-long reflection on sustainable design practices has challenged landscape architects to place aesthetics and cultural value on equal footing with ecological performance. In this talk, Meyer will consider the ways in which conversation and debate with her students and colleagues over time have informed and extended her critique.
Thursday, March 9, 2017, at 7:00 p.m.
ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture
636 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
$15 General Admission
Free for students with valid student ID for 2016–17 or 2017–2018.
Doors open at 6:30. Light refreshments will be provided.
Registration is required: bit.ly/LAMLectureSeries.
1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)
Taylor Cullity Lethlean, The Australian Garden, Royal Botanical Gardens, Cranborne, Victoria (2012 completion)
For questions, please contact Jennifer Reut, Senior Editor, at jreut@asla.org.
The Landscape Architecture Magazine Lecture Series brings together design professionals, educators, and thinkers in conversation around provocative issues in the field of landscape architecture.
The Landscape Architecture Magazine Lecture Series is supported by Victor Stanley.
ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture Open House and Lecture
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On May 17, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) will officially open the ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture on 636 Eye Street NW, Washington, D.C. The public may tour the Center from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. To mark the opening of the Center, a lecture on the building will take place from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. The presenters will include staff from ASLA, architecture firm Gensler, and landscape architecture firm Oehme van Sweden. Reservations are required for the lecture. Click here to RSVP. For more information, contact Karen Grajales at ktgrajales@asla.org or (202) 216-2371.
1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)