Lecture Series
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With guests coming from Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, and the United States, Landscapes of the Americas, SALA Fall 2009 lectures series exposes, from a variety of backgrounds, a fertility of techniques, concepts, and contexts as part of the contemporary reality of our global interdependent world and ultimately, the discipline of landscape architecture. Techniques and concepts which involve varied mapping departures -environmental, demographics, economy, culture, beauty, science, among others- to inform and in the service of the action of designing the landscape. The series offers a collection of contextual approaches which value site specificity while engaging and connecting abroad through blogging, traditional publication, competition, and activism. The series will enlighten the scope and reach of landscape architecture as a discipline which not only articulates with a multiplicity of professions, but also with a heterogeneous, contrasting, and stimulating growth and influence in different parts of our continent. Our guests are Felipe Correa (Harvard, Ecuador), David Tulloch (USA), Carol Franklin / Andropogon (USA), Teresa Moller (Chile), Luis Callejas / Paisajes Emergentes (Colombia), and Tom Oslund (USA).
Paisajes de las Américas:
Con invitados de Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, y los Estados Unidos, Paisajes de las Américas, el ciclo de conferencias de la Escuela de Arquitectura y Arquitectura de Paisaje de Arizona State University en Tempe, Arizona, expone una variedad de orígenes, una fertilidad de técnicas, conceptos, y contextos como parte de la realidad contemporánea de nuestro globalmente interdependiente planeta, y finalmente, la disciplina de la arquitectura de paisaje. Técnicas y conceptos que involucran diversos puntos de partida y mapeo: ambiental, demográfico, económico, cultural, estético, científico, entre otros- para informar y en el servicio del accionar del diseño del paisaje. El ciclo ofrece una colección de aproximaciones contextuales que valoran lo específico del sitio al tiempo que emplean y comunican abiertamente a través del blogging, publicación tradicional, competencias, y activismo. El ciclo iluminará el objetivo y alcance de la arquitectura de paisaje como una disciplina que no sólo articula una multiplicidad de profesiones, sino que también posee un heterogéneo, contrastante pero estimulante y creciente influencia y desarrollo en distintas partes de nuestro continente. Nuestros invitados son Felipe Correa (Harvard, Ecuador), David Tulloch (EEUU), Carol Franklin / Andropogon (EEUU), Teresa Moller (Chile), Luis Callejas / Paisajes Emergentes (Colombia), y Tom Oslund (EEUU).
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
6:00pm-7:00pm
Design North (CDN), Room 60
Felipe Correa
Felipe Correa is an architect based in Quito, Ecuador and Cambridge, MA. He is the founder of Somatic Collaborative, a research based design practice which focuses on a speculative approach to architecture and urbanism, and engages a wide host of material geographies and design procedures. Cutting across multiple scales, from interior furnishings to open territories. Somatic uses the architectural commission, design competitions, and diverse forms of applied research as conduits that facilitate an inventive construction of space.
In addition to his private practice, Felipe is also an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Correa's most recent research initiative, Material Geographies, explores the role of territorial infrastructural systems in relation to "fast paced" forms of urbanization within the North American context. Other recent work has focused on Andean topography and its imprint on the Latin American city, and on New Orleans and its forms of exchange with a much broader riparian system. In association with Joan Busquets, Correa conducted "Cities X Lines", a project-based investigation that documents and evaluates the most significant design actions currently being deployed within the built environment. The investigation has been documented in both a traveling exhibition and a comprehensive publication titled "Cities X Lines: A New Lens for the Urbanistic Project".
Correa has lectured and exhibited at many universities and conferences, including Columbia University, tulane University, University of Pennsylvania, Pointiticia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, The National Arts Club, and the Pan-American Architecture Biennale, among others. his work, research and writings have been published in journals including Architectural Design, Architectural Record, and Topos. Correa received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Tulane University, and his Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the GSD.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
6:00-7:00pm
Design North (CDN), Room 60
David Tulloch- Bits of Landscapes: The Internet and Geospatial Information in a New Era of Planning and Design
David Tulloch is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in Rutgers' School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. He also serves as Associate Director of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (http://www.crssa.rutgers.edu/) as well as the Undergraduate Program Director for Environmental Planning and Design. Dr. Tulloch is a graduate of the University of Kentucky (BSLA), Louisiana State University (MLA) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD in Land Resources). His research and teaching address the relationship between the practice of landscape architecture and the utilization of geospatial tools that have become so integral to managing American landscapes. His Places and Spaces blog (http://epd372.blogspot.com/) was recently featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Recent innovations in geospatial technology are credited with democratizing the field; they also confound many applications. One example is found in studies of non-profit applications of GIS as part of a growing movement of Public Participatory GIS (PPGIS), where competing groups are making surprise appearances at planning commission meetings with spatial data that can’t be easily verified. With the advent of more interactive online applications and more accessible GPS technology, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has become an empowering tool for citizen scientists and community advocates. In NJ citizens are using a web interface to help the state confirm the location of vernal pools. Complicating the matter further, some are populist applications while others remain obscure and inaccessible. The ubiquitous Google Earth has been downloaded over 400 million times while many practitioners remain unaware that the NRCS maintains current soils data online.
Dr. Tulloch is investigating how both traditional GIS and relatively new technologies, like PPGIS and VGI, will change the space within which planning and design practice occurs. While early GIS may have allowed landscape architects to reach into the world of geography, today's technology is allowing untrained neogeographers to tinker in landscape architecture risking a new potential form of marginalization both for already at-risk populations and well-equipped practitioners.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
6:00-7:00pm
Design North (CDN), Room 60
Carol Franklin / Andropogon
Carol Franklin is a founding principal of Andropogon Associates and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. She is a nationally recognized expert in sustainable design and has been a leader in exploring sustainable landscape initiatives since 1975. As an ecological landscape architect, she has worked for more than three decades to develop sustainable communities and institutions, bringing to each project the ability to see the broader picture and to generate solutions that integrate historical, cultural, economic, and environmental concerns. Carol’s work exemplifies a lifelong interest in restoring natural and cultural landscapes and re-establishing the essential connection between the two. She thrives on recapturing and reengaging the landscape to open new opportunities for focusing community identity and creating exciting venues for public life. By establishing strong, appropriate themes, her work creates captivating and memorable experiences for the visitor out of the special qualities of the site.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
6:00-7:00pm
Design North (CDN), Room 60
Teresa Moller
Teresa Moller is one of the leading designers of Latin American Landscape Architecture. Moller began her career as a protégé of the well-known Chilean landscape architect Juan Grimm, through whom she learned about the extensive native flora of Chile and its particular geography. After studying garden design at the New York Botanical Gardens she returned to Chile and set up her own office, which is now one of the most prominent in Latin America. In 2005, British landscape magazine Garden Illustrator chose her, along with nine other landscape architects from different parts of the world, as one of the most interesting current designers. The range of projects her office, Estudio del Paisaje, develops ranges from residential, to urban design, and public spaces. Among her most outstanding works is Punta Pite a “geographical” work in the Chilean Pacific coast which has been extensively celebrated.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
6:00-7:00pm
Design North (CDN), Room 60
Luis Callejas / Paisajes Emergentes
Luis Callejas is a principal of Paisajes Emergentes, a landscape architecture and architecture studio operating from Medellín, Colombia. Founded in 2007 by Architects Luis Callejas, Edgar Mazo, and Sebastian Mejia, the studio currently mainly focuses on public space projects in Colombia. They’re interested in the emerging aspects of Nature. Their projects intend to become systems to reveal what is not evident, those manifestations of the landscape which can be violent, slow or simply don’t arise at all. Their design work admits the limitations of architecture to predict the behavior of nature through time. They admit the risk and allow it to be part of the project. Paisajes Emergentes has won numerous prizes in public design competitions in Colombia and abroad. They are widely regarded as one of the most promising young architecture and landscape architecture firms of Latin America.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
6:00-7:00pm
Design North (CDN), Room 60
Tom Oslund
Tom Oslund is one of the leading design landscape architects in the USA. His work has been recognized by the ASLA, the AIA, and in 1992 he was awarded the prestigious Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. As founder and design director of Oslund and Associates his role is highly interactive to ensure that the functional, practical and aesthetic elements of the design are achieved. Tom brings over 20 years of experience at a variety of project scales from 800-acre master planning efforts to a 5000-square foot rooftop garden. His belief in the collaborative process of working closely with clients, architects, engineers, fabricators and artists have yielded positive results and international recognition as an innovator when it comes to solving complex site design challenges. Tom holds a BLA from the University of Minnesota and a MLA from Harvard University.
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