ASLA-NCC Lunch with Leaders – Industry Icons A Landscape Architect is a Landscape Architect but…
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ASLA-NCC Walking Tour of Salesforce Park: San Francisco’s Urban Forest and Botanical Garden in the Sky
In July ASLA-NCC along with PWP lead designers of Salesforce Park, Adam Greenspan and Cornelia Roppel, for a tour of the 5.4 acre park located on top of the Salesforce Transit Center in downtown San Francisco. The integrated park has become the central public open space in a new [...]
ASLA-NCC Presidio Tunnel Tops Tour
Thank you to those that joined us in April for a walking tour of San Francisco’s newest park – the Presidio Tunnel Tops – before it opened to the public. The $120 million project is the final step in the two decades long transformation of the Presidio’s northern [...]
Lunch with Leaders – Industry Icons Olmsted 200: Planning and Design of the Stanford Campus with Cathy Blake
In this year of honoring Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday, this presentation will focus on how Stanford University is building on the Olmsted legacy in historic and contemporary design.
Lunch with Leaders – Industry Icons The Making of Barangaroo with David Walker
Named for an influential Aboriginal woman of colonial Sydney, Barangaroo is a globally-significant, 22-hectare waterfront renewal project that redefines Sydney Harbour and its Central Business District. Barangaroo is made up of three precincts: Barangaroo South, a mix of office and residential; Barangaroo Central, a mixed-use/recreational space with large [...]
Lunch with Leaders – Industry Icons Design Matters, Nature Matters, Humanity Matters: Seventh Generational Thinking with April Philips
Dreaming. Thinking. Taking Action. Creating. Testing. Leading. Teaching. April Philips will focus on lessons she has gleaned from her multi-dimensional career and why embedding seventh generational thinking into landscape architecture design is the path forward in shaping a more equitable, healthier, and nourished world for people and planet. [...]
Lunch with Leaders – Industry Icons Creating a National Park for All at the Golden Gate with Michael Boland
Since 1994, the Presidio Trust has worked with its partners the National Park Service and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, community partners, and thousands of community volunteers to transform the historic Presidio of San Francisco into our country's first financially self-sufficient urban national park site. To achieve [...]
Lunch with Leaders – Industry IconsAdvocacy By Design: Urgency To Act Nowwith Mia Lehrer
In her lecture, “Advocacy By Design: Urgency to Act Now,” Mia Lehrer, FASLA will discuss how, in recent decades, accelerating numbers of people are sounding the alarm about global climate shifts, human and wildlife migration, and worldwide socioeconomic inequity. The root causes are many–including colonialization, systemic racism, [...]
Lunch with Leaders – Insights from a 40-year Career in Landscape Architecture with Andrea Cochran
Landscape Architecture Foundation Board members Jim Stickley, ASLA (Principal, WRT) and Brian Jencek, ASLA (Senior VP, HOK) will present the LAF's New Landscape Declaration and conduct a discussion with leading thinkers in the academic and practice fields of landscape architecture. Join our panelists in examining issues of [...]
Lunch with Leaders – Industry Icons Embracing Change by Expanding the role of the Landscape Architect and Leveraging the Power of Cultural Landscapes with Charles A. Birnbaum
This conversation will begin with a 20-minute presentation, putting forth the idea that change with continuity is essential. Opening remarks will examine the planning, design and stewardship opportunities (and constraints) frequently encountered when dealing with cultural landscapes. These remarks will address personal and foundational principles, while [...]