Description

As society changes and cities evolve, the fate of cultural and historic landscapes increasingly comes into question. This panel, with expertise representing different aspects of the profession, will lead a frank discussion about complex and controversial issues associated with the stewardship, maintenance, restoration, preservation, and redesign of historically significant landscapes.

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Learning Objectives:

• Understand the various ways in which landscape architects influence the inevitable change that occurs with cultural and historic landscapes.
• Learn the importance of embedding landscape stewardship, as an ethic, into the professional goals of students and emerging landscape architects.
• Recognize the challenges and strategies involved in stewarding the integrity of historic designed landscapes.
• Understand how effectively managing conflicting motivations and values can help achieve best-case results.

Speaker(s):

• Mark Hough, FASLA, University Landscape Architect, Duke University
• Thaisa Way, FASLA, Professor, Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
• Thomas Woltz, FASLA, Owner and Principal, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects