Recorded Presentations

Mar 4, 2013 ‐ Dec 18, 2017

Residential Design: Blending Aesthetics, Personality, and Place - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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Residential Design: Blending Aesthetics, Personality, and Place - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Oct 23, 2017 12:00pm ‐ Oct 23, 2017 12:00pm

Credits: None available.

Residential garden design offers cultural, environmental, and aesthetic benefits, yet designers struggle with the interpersonal skills required to be truly successful. In this session, three geographically diverse landscape architects each explore three case studies that balance personalities, program, design, and site challenges to create gardens that are beautiful and sustainable.

• Identify means to integrate design, program, stewardship and client personality that achieve beautiful, resilient, low-maintenance gardens on sites varying in architectural style, geographic location, scale, and ecology.
• Learn how to work with residential clients to effectively design living spaces that reflect individual styles and tastes while capturing the genius loci.
• Acquire reliable strategies for marketing residential work and maintaining long-term relationships with clients.
• Determine methods for artistic coalescence of man-made and natural ecosystems. 

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• Mark Boyer, FASLA, ​Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at LSU​
• Eric Groft, FASLA, Oehme, van Sweden & Associates
• Keith LeBlanc, FASLA, LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architects, Inc.
• Susan Van Atta, FASLA, VAI Van Atta Associates, Inc.

Inside the LA Studio with SiteWorks - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Inside the LA Studio with SiteWorks - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm ‐ Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm

Credits: None available.

As a profession, landscape architecture often emphasizes aesthetics at the expense of the practicalities of construction or long-term stewardship. Meet SiteWorks, a specialty practice that helps translate visionary landscape ideas into reality. Hear how we integrate design with science, technology, and building craft to enable the realization of iconic projects.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how design drawings and renderings express a vision of a landscape, while contract documents, construction management, and site stewardship plans enable realization of the vision.
• See how specialized technical expertise can be used to enhance budget planning scheduling, and long-term design performance.
• Discover the importance of “contractor” thinking as a way to improve communication and on-site construction relationships.
• Learn how to integrate and calibrate your design with a client’s maintenance capabilities.

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• Mr. Andrew Lavallee, FASLA, Partner, SiteWorks
• Annette P. Wilkus, FASLA, SiteWorks Landscape
• Laura Solano, ASLA, Principal, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.

Supernatural Shorelines: Innovative Models for Coastal Development, Adaptation, and Habitat Creation - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Supernatural Shorelines: Innovative Models for Coastal Development, Adaptation, and Habitat Creation - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm ‐ Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm

Credits: None available.

Professionals working on waterfront projects face unprecedented changing conditions and are charged with addressing uncertainty and widespread habitat loss through adaptive solutions. This session, presented using stimulating graphics and data, examines varied projects testing innovative solutions for adaptation, habitat creation, and resilience as a new model for coastal development.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the efficacy, impacts, and benefits of living shorelines and supernatural shorelines.
• Explore the trends of living shoreline projects throughout the United States, and how living shorelines can enable coastal adaptation and shoreline resilience.
• Gain insight into the regulatory frameworks and funding mechanisms for living shoreline implementation. 
• Learn about new, innovative models for resilient urban coastal development and adaptation. 

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• Sarah Moos Thompson, ASLA, Bionic
• Marilyn Latta, California State Coastal Conservancy
• Nicole Waguespack, Martin Ecosystems

Homelessness and American Parks and Public Spaces - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Homelessness and American Parks and Public Spaces - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm ‐ Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm

Credits: None available.

Every major city in the United States, large and small, struggles with generating effective dialogues and solutions for homelessness. Through an exploration of national data, as well as successes and challenges from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver, policies, programs and design solutions will be shared.

Learning Objectives:

• Examine an overview of nationwide data about homeless populations, to support better understanding.
• Discover stories of how homelessness is a consideration for parks professionals and designers, and what factors are at play for management, operations, design, and programming.
• Take a deeper dive into successful case studies from multiple cities, ranging from policy to programs to design.
• Learn sources to research for additional data, case studies, and resources.

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• Briana Hensold, Sasaki
• Laura Crescimano, SITELAB urban studio
• Scott Gilmore, City and County of Denver, CO
• Joe Salaices, City of Los Angeles

SITES: Water Cycle Management and Resiliency in the Face of Climate Change - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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SITES: Water Cycle Management and Resiliency in the Face of Climate Change - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm ‐ Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm

Credits: None available.

The SITES v2 Rating System - a performance-based process encourages projects to conserve water, maximize the use of precipitation, and protect water quality, with the goal always being to restore natural systems. Examine and integrate future hydrologic outcomes such as sea-level rise and create resilient designs that satisfy SITES credits.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the prerequisites and credits in Section 3: Site Design–Water and review documentation examples.
• Describe the technical requirements and calculations as well as specialist team members that may be required for fulfillment of SITES v2 water prerequisites and credits.
• Examine projects that demonstrate sustainable practices in water design and integrate climate issues such as prolonged droughts and sea-level rise.
• Learn how to integrate design choices for water and other site attributes to improve performance outcomes and plan for resiliency in the face of future climate events.

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• Linette Straus, ASLA, SITES AP, Professional Practice Manager, American Society of Landscape Architects
• Chris Moyles, ASLA, Reed Hilderbrand
• Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, ASLA, AIA, Associate Professor, City College of New York
• April Philips, FASLA, Founder and Principal, April Philips Design Works

Museums Without Walls: Public Art and the Public Space - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Museums Without Walls: Public Art and the Public Space - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm ‐ Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm

Credits: None available.

Museums are understood as publicly significant spaces. But rarely are they thought of as public spaces. How do we move beyond museums as white cubes and understand them as active players in a discussion about art, community, culture, and politics? This panel will consider museum grounds as unique places where culture, public space, community, and private interests intersect.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how curators, landscape architects, and public art advocates understand the relationship between art and public spaces.
• Review strategies for  designing, managing, and extending art into the museum grounds.
• Explore interactions that are unique to cultural landscape in our cities.
• Gain insight into cultural institutions as a permeable membrane between an institution and the public.

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• Astrid Sykes, ASLA, Mia Lehrer + Associates
• Felicia Filer, City of Los Angeles
• Walter Hood, ASLA, Creative Director, Hood Design Studio, Inc.
• Paul Schimmel, Curator of Contemporary Art

Communicate + Collaborate: Putting Words to Action for Better - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Communicate + Collaborate: Putting Words to Action for Better - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm ‐ Oct 22, 2017 12:00pm

Credits: None available.

Metrics and methods are changing the direction of our work. However, no resulting actions are taken if communication is not effective. Using various focuses of the profession, this panel examines external (clients, community, consultants, etc.) and internal office experience and methodologies, putting collaboration to action.

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate the influence and benefit of effective communication, both internally and externally.
• Share applicable techniques to better engage community, client, and consultants to collaborate for more resilient design.
• Learn to better engage internally for effective project and professional development with emerging staff. 
• Evaluate collaboration and the found and missed opportunities through the various stages of projects.

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• Ryan Sand, ASLA, LEED GA, Design Incite
• Anna Cawrse, ASLA, Sasaki
• Matthew McMahon, ASLA, Snohetta
• Laura E. Stedenfeld, ASLA, DAVID RUBIN Land Collective
• Jessica Pickul, LEED AP, JLA Public Involvement

Inside the LA Studio with Hocker Design Group - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

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Inside the LA Studio with Hocker Design Group - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Oct 21, 2017 12:00pm ‐ Oct 21, 2017 12:00pm

Credits: None available.

David Hocker ventured into business in late 2004 with a clear vision - beautiful articulation of the “spaces between” that exude meaningful connection to region and place for the people who inhabit them. In 13 short years Hocker Design Group (HDG) has grown into a focused design firm with a succinct point of view that responds to architecture, site ecology, and geographic features with appropriately scaled designs of exhibited restraint. A commitment to provide responsible and innovative solutions has earned the small firm 30-plus design awards and accolades in national and international publications.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore how a firm started with a single project, keyed into important relationships, and grew through a strong reputation of collaboration and built work.
• Learn how HDG views residential work as a platform for experimentation from which concept, detailing, and material success can be scaled to the urban or institutional level.
• Understand how HDG integrates reused materials and native or adaptive plants into the design process to produce a sustainable aesthetic in each built project.
• Hear how HDG’s creative approach to problem solving uses logic to steer design decisions throughout all phases of a project.

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• David Hocker, ASLA, Hocker Design Group
• Ashlee Lehmann, ASLA, Hocker Design Group
• Dylan Stewart, ASLA, Hocker Design Group
• Biff Sturgess, ASLA, LEED AP, Hocker Design Group
• Keith LeBlanc, FASLA, LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architects, Inc.

Finding Design: Case Studies in the Creative Process - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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Finding Design: Case Studies in the Creative Process - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Oct 21, 2017 12:00pm ‐ Oct 21, 2017 12:00pm

Credits: None available.

Reaching beyond constraints of their sites, landscape architects often create works that are memorable in concept and realization. This session explores ways in which the creative spirit fuels the design process in the work of three landscape architects known for their inspired designs: James Burnett, Signe Nielsen, and Kongjian Yu.

Learning Objectives:

• Discover the role of creative imagination in the design process of three outstanding landscape architects working today.
• Learn how an unorthodox line of thought, or an unexpected inspiration, can lead to unusual—perhaps magical—design solutions that meet all the criteria of professional work today.
• Understand the ways in which landscape architects find paths to problem solving and design expression by drawing on their personal histories and diverse interests.
• Be inspired to explore and expand your own sources of inspiration.

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• Susan Cohen, FASLA, Principal, Susan Cohen Landscape Architect
• James Burnett, FASLA, OJB Landscape Architecture
• Signe Nielsen, FASLA, MNLA
• Kongjian Yu, FASLA, President and Principal Designer, Turenscape & College of Architecture and Landscape, Peking University

High Performing SITES and the Soils Beneath Them - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

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High Performing SITES and the Soils Beneath Them - 1.5 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Oct 21, 2017 12:00pm ‐ Oct 21, 2017 12:00pm

Credits: None available.

Soil is the living skin of our planet. As we’ve shaped it to our needs, we’ve often forgotten how essential it is for our survival. This session will review the complexity of soil ecosystems and frame the importance of soil in green infrastructure, urban landscapes, and the SITES Rating System

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the fundamental importance of soil in site design.
• Understand the importance of structural soils in ensuring better living conditions and therefore in advancing the development of successful urban landscapes and streetscapes.
• Discuss the soil testing requirements outlined in the SITES v2 Rating System.
• Describe the beneficial relationship between soil, vegetation and hydrology for promoting resilience.

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• Micah Silvey, LEED AP, Green Business Certification Inc.
• Chris Moyles, ASLA, Reed Hilderbrand
• John Swallow, Affil. ASLA, Pine & Swallow Environmental