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Five members of Design Workshop to speak at ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO October 30 – November 218 October 2011 Aspen – Design Workshop, an international landscape architecture, land planning, urban design and strategic services firm with offices in Aspen, Denver, Austin, Salt Lake City, Tahoe, and Asheville, will feature five speakers at the American Society of Landscape Architects annual conference. All speakers will present on a panel of industry experts during the meeting’s education sessions. This year, the 2011 ASLA annual meeting will be held in San Diego from October 30 through November 2. Kurt Culbertson, Aspen-based chairman of Design Workshop, and Denver-based Associate Allyson Mendenhall, will speak at a session titled “Evidence: Toward Performance-Based Design.” Culbertson and Mendenhall will discuss the importance of measuring the sustainability performance of landscapes as well as the methods needed to successfully do so. The session will also focus on which practices should be integrated into certification programs, including economic, community, environment, and aesthetic enhancements. Additionally, Richard Shaw and Mike Albert, Aspen-based principal and associate, respectively, will participate in the panel “Achieving Regional Expression through Planting Design.” The session will focus on how the firm’s landscape architects incorporate plants and patterns native to the Rocky Mountains to ground its residential gardens, parks and urban design projects in the natural environment. The final Design Workshop member to speak will be Suzanne Jackson, Aspen-based associate, in the session “Landscape Architecture Rising in Africa” which will explore how international landscape design work is changing and growing. The panel will discuss key African market areas as well as present case studies of landscape architecture projects executed in several of the continent’s diverse environments. The case studies will focus on ecotourism and protected area planning in Kenya, sustainable resorts in Morocco and designing the new town, Kigali, in Rwanda. The Annual Meeting & EXPO is the largest ASLA event, drawing more than 6,000 landscape architect professionals from across the world. “We are honored to have so many of our team members invited to speak at such a prestigious conference,” said Culbertson. “We are lucky to be so prominently recognized by a leading industry resource.” During the four-day conference, Design Workshop will also receive three prestigious ASLA honor awards for their work on residential gardens, “Snake River Retreat” and “Galisteo Modern,” as well as for their “South Grand Boulevard: Great Streets Initiative” streetscape project. The annual meeting will consist of two general sessions, 127 educational sessions and a large exposition of the latest products and designs in landscape architecture. About Design Workshop About the American Society of Landscape Architects |
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