Find us at TCLF Oberlander Prize Forum – Re:Search Symposium

RE: SEARCH: This full day symposium on October 29 explores how landscape architects are reclaiming and redefining their relationship between research and design. It is bracketed by a plenary keynote reception the evening prior (October 28) and mobile workshops the day following (October 30). 

The depth of research that informs the design work of Oberlander Prize laureate Mario Schjetnan and his firm Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU), is the impetus for the event. At Longwood Gardens, the recent transformation and reconstruction of Roberto Burle Marx’s Cascade Garden by landscape architects Reed Hilderbrand and architects Weiss and Manfredi is a prime example of a holistic research-driven design process that values both natural/ecological and historic/cultural systems. Surveying the work and measuring the success at Longwood, and elsewhere in North America—the focus of this symposium and related events—provides the ideal opportunity to explore how today’s practitioners are building and sharing knowledge with the joint quest of revealing, honoring, and integrating cultural systems and lifeways in the face of inevitable change. 

Panel I: RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE | Re: Discover, Re: Appraise and Re: Acknowledge  
Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, Charlottesville, VA, moderator. Speakers: Kofi Boone, FASLA, Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor and University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Jennifer Lauer, Project Designer and Cultural Landscape Historian, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Charlottesville, VA, and Lydia Gikas Cook, Senior Associate, Reed Hilderbrand, Cambridge, MA

Panel II: GROUNDING RESEARCH | Re: Design, Re: New and Re: Activate
Eric Kramer, FASLA, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand, Cambridge, MA, moderator. Speakers: Nina Chase, PLA, ASLA, and Chris Merritt, PLA, ASLA, Founding Principals, Merritt Chase, Pittsburgh, PA, and Indianapolis, IN; Ross Altheimer, PLA, FAAR, and Maura Rockcastle, PLA, Principals and Co-Founders, TEN x TEN Studio, Minneapolis, MN, and Marc Hallé, MLA, B. Civ.Eng., FCSLA, OALA, AALA, Co-President and Partner, CCxA, Montréal, Canada

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