Category: conferences
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Tonight: Habitats/Veg.itecture
integrating habitats defining veg.itecture asla oregon – mt. hood section lecture 1515 SE Water Street – Suite 100 April 14, 2008 – 5:30pm Two current trends that offer myriad opportunities for landscape architecture include trends towards truly integrated habitats and definitions of veg.itecture, the insertion of vegetation into architectural form. Jason King, ASLA LEED and…
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Fungi Perfecti
Greetings… after a short pause from posting due to conference presentations and work (both paid and yard) – a breather to drop a few lines as a retrospective on the Soak it Up conference from last week. More to post in coming days, but a chance to rave about a pioneer and his book related…
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Soak it Up
I’m currently working away on an upcoming presentation for a conference happening next week down at the beautiful Oregon Garden. Sponsored by Sprout (Sustainable Plant Research and Outreach), the conference “Soak It Up: Phytotechnology Solutions for Water Challenges” focuses on some fo the functional aspects of plants as vital components in addressing small and large-scale…
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The 21st Century Park & The Contemporary City
Via ASLA’s blog The Dirt, an announcement of an upcoming event that resonates with recent resurgence in thinking and discussion about the role of large civic parks. Happening in New York City and sponsored by The Forum For Urban Design some info from the Forum’s website: “In the past few years, there has been huge…
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Ecological Urbanism at the GSD
An upcoming must-see conference entitled Ecological Urbanism: Alternative and Sustainable Cities of the Future will take place at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on April 3-5, 2009. The event will “…bring together design practitioners and theorists, economists, engineers, environmental scientists, politicians and public health specialists, with the goal of reaching a more robust understanding…
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Alsop v. Schwartz
A very interesting debate that came via a link from World Landscape Architect features a throw-down between Architect Will Alsop and Martha Schwartz over the role of landscape architects in public space. The video is featured on Wallpaper (alas no embedded video, so the link is here). It seems Mr. Alsop (left) made some comments…
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Exporting Sustainability
A shameless plug for a fantastic upcoming workshop/summit this summer. If you want to travel and learn from the lessons of the Portland region, get some credit, and interact with other professionals around sustainability – this is not one to miss. Oh, and you get to hang out with me, too… 🙂Sustainability in the Urban…
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Auroville
I previously focused on the work of Ecocity World Summit 2008 speaker Ken Yeang with this history of bioclimatic design and vegetated architecture. From this post, I recently recieved a heads up about another of the conference speakers, Lalit Bhati, and the community of Auroville – a perhaps too-good-to-be-true but still evolving along slice of…
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Bat-Yam = Landscape Urbanism
A recent reference reminded me to post something about the Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, beginning April 13th, 2008. A summary via Archinect: “This international event will present 30 outdoor rooms in the public domain. All sites will be open to the public and introduce innovative ways for using urban open spaces, integrating community…