LA Days 2006

Schedule of Lectures

All presentations begin at 6:00pm

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28 March, Tuesday

Room: 113 Natural Resources

Charles Birnbaum


Mr. Birnbaum is the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative. Prior to joining the NPS in 1992, Mr. Birnbaum spent a decade in private practice with a focus on landscape preservation. His most recent projects include the online series, Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms (with MIT Press), and editing Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture for Spacemaker Press and Pioneers of American Landscape Design: An Encyclopedia for McGraw Hill. In 1995, the ASLA awarded the Historic Landscape Initiative the President's Award and in 1996 inducted Mr. Birnbaum as a Fellow of the Society. He also served as a Loeb Fellow in 1998 at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design during which time he founded The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Mr. Birnbaum is also an instructor for the National Preservation Institute and the Professional Development Program at the Harvard Design School.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation

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29 March, Wednesday

Room: 113 Natural Resources

Laura Burnett

Laura Burnett, ASLA, LEED AP Laura is a landscape architect and urban designer skilled at integrating sophisticated landscape designs with the functional requirements of architectural and engineering projects, resulting in rich and exciting environments where infrastructure, buildings, and landscape work as a coordinated whole. A gifted designer and skilled project manager, Laura brings to her work a strong commitment to the principles of sustainability.

Wallace Roberts & Todd

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30 March, Thursday

Room: 104 Yates

Martin Poirier

Spurlock Poirier has the skills to solve the most challenging landscape design issues. Their strengths in the liberal and fine arts make an essential contribution to their designs.

Andrew Spurlock established the firm in 1988, to provide an innovative,site conditioned approach, to both planning and landscape architectural design.

After collaborating on projects since 1981, Martin Poirier joined Andrew in 1988 and became a partner in 1990. Marty brought a zeal for interdisciplinary collaboration, and a complementary passion for place-making.

Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects

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31 March, Friday

Room: 113 Natural Resources

Topher Delaney

Preceeded by a short presentation by Lynn Moore (Davis Parnership) acknowledging Jane Silverstein Ries and the JSR Foundation, scholarship and award.

Topher Delaney's thirty year career as an environmental artist and builder has encompassed a wide breadth of projects that focus on the exploration of seminal interpretations of landscape architecture, site installation and public art. Her practice, SEAM Studio, has evolved from a landscape contracting corporation into an atelier which serves as a venue for the investigation of cultural, social and artistic narratives "seamed" together to form dynamic physical installations.

T. Delaney / Seam Studio