Session #1: Thursday, April 19th, 9:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.
Bob Berkebile, FAIA
Partner, BNIM Architects
Presentation: Designing for the Future: Saving our Natural Resources by Encouraging Sustainable Development.
Any list of accomplished, influential environmentalists and preservationists includes Bob Berkebile. Highly regarded by fellow professionals and recipient of numerous awards, Bob focuses on improving the quality of life in our society with the integrity and spirit of his firm’s work. He is a founding Principal of BNIM Architects and brings over 44 years of experience to the architectural profession.
As one of the nation’s leading authorities in the field of sustainable design, Bob was the founding chairman of the AIA’s National Committee on the Environment. He has conducted numerous sustainable design charrettes and workshops for the White House, National Park Service, the US Department of Energy, the Federal Emergency Management Administration, and the Canadian Provincial Architects. He has been particularly effective in assisting opponents with diverse attitudes to identify their common interest and collectively apply their resources for the common good. For this reason, local municipalities, national organizations, universities, governors, U.S. Senators and Representatives, and organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, and the Urban Land Institute seek his advice and participation.
Session #2: Thursday, April 19th, 10:30 A.M. - 11:30 A.M.
Richard Hansen
Sculptor and Landscape Architect
Professor of Art, Colorado State University
Presentation: Finding the Poetic within the Pragmatic
Richard Hansen is a landscape architect who creates sculptural elements and shapes landscape spaces, Richard views his form poems as intensifications of energy drawn from the natural and cultural systems that flow through the site.
The expressive design opportunities that exist within emerging ecological technologies will be explored in this presentation. Through a series of water-based projects, the potential of design details to reveal the flow of larger natural systems will be shared. The challenge for the landscape architect to be both expressive form giver and effective environmental steward will hopefully be central to the follow up discussion.
Session #3: Thursday, April 19th, 12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.
William Wenk, FASLA
Founder/Principal, Wenk Associates
Presentation: Design Beyond the Garden Wall: landscape architects as leaders in reinventing the city
Bill Wenk is founder and President of Wenk Associates, Inc. For over 20 years he has been involved in the restoration and redevelopment of urban river and stream corridors, the transformation of derelict urban land, and the design of public parks and open spaces. He is recognized nationally for utilizing stormwater as a resource.
Storm water management, river rehabilitation, the redevelopment of Brownfield sites, and the reuse of outmoded infrastructure are all important to the revitalization of our cities. Landscape architects’ involvement often comes late in the design process when the opportunity to bring our diverse talents to an important project is limited. The presentation will describe a series of projects that illustrate how landscape architects can lead teams in order to address complex environmental, ecological, and social issues involved in reinventing our cities.
Session #5: Friday, April 20th, 8:30 A.M. - 9:30 A.M.
Tom Price, P.E.
Director, Water Resource Engineering
Presentation: Alternative approaches to conventional wastewater treatment solutions.
Tom is a civil engineer specializing in hydrologic analysis and design, watershed planning and restoration, and non-point source pollution mitigation. Tom received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mr. Price joined Conservation Design Forum in September, 2000, after having been employed by the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC) for the past ten years, where he devoted his career to identifying and implementing techniques to prevent and mitigate the water resource impacts of urban development. Mr. Price has a wide range of project experience including hydrologic analysis and design, urban best management practice design, and stormwater and watershed planning.
Session #6: Friday, April 20th, 10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.
David J. Yocca, RLA, AICP, LEED AP
Director, Landscape Architecture & Planning
Presentation: Emerging Culture of Green Roof Technology
David Yocca is a landscape architect and planner noted for his experience in sustainable community planning and design. He currently serves as Director of Landscape Architecture & Planning for CDF. With twenty years of professional experience, David is passionate about the creative integration of cultural and natural environments with the design and development of both public and private sector projects at a range of scales and contexts.
Awards Ceremony: Friday, April 20th, 11:45 A.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Dennis B. Carmichael, FASLA
Principal, EDAW
Immediate Past President, ASLA
Presentation: Central States Awards Luncheon
Dennis Carmichael, FASLA, is a licensed landscape architect who received his degree from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse. His work incorporates narrative landscape strategies to connect people to place for projects ranging from small gardens to urban parks to new communities. He is interested in creating places that reveal their unique qualities of history, culture, and ecology.
Over the past 25 years, he has been a design leader at EDAW, creating dozens of implemented works around the country. Noteworthy projects under his direction include Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta; Sallie Mae Headquarters in Reston; West Main Street Arts District in Louisville; Celebration new community in Florida; and Ross’s Landing in Chattanooga. These works and others have been published in Landscape Architecture, Architectural Record, Southern Living, and Process Architecture. He has been the recipient of twelve ASLA awards and dozens more from AIA, APA, ULI, and AAN.
