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A Meeting of the Landscape Minds:
Contemporary Landscapes at The Historic Green-Wood Cemetery
Rarely have so many influential design firms participated in the development of a single property as has been the case at The Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. In recent years they have included Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Nelson Byrd Woltz, Phyto Studio, Larry Weaner Landscape Associates, Wolf Landscape Architecture, and SiteWorks. Learn how each of these innovative firms helped expand the rich horticultural heritage of Green-Wood to include cultural and ecological considerations – and overcome changing physical conditions.
In the classroom, representatives from each firm will provide background on the development of their plans. In the field, they will discuss the design considerations and practical decisions that turned those plans into a living landscape.
When: Friday, September 6th, 2024 | 9 AM - 4:30 PM
Where: The Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
Category: Professional
Fee: $295
Student & Wild Ones members discounts available
CEUs available: APLD, ISA, LA CES, NOFA, SER (details to come)
Register by: Wednesday, Sept. 4th, 2024, 9 AM ET (2 days prior)
Limited attendance!
Photos by Mark Weaner
Agenda
6 instructional hours plus two breaks & lunch
Registrants will receive further details closer to event date
8:30 AM – Check-in and light breakfast
Classroom instruction
Field walk
Lunch
Classroom instruction
Field walk
Classroom: concluding remarks
4:30 PM – Adjourn
Instructor Bios:
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Charlotte Barrows, PLA, LEED, is a Senior Associate at Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. She is a Registered Landscape Architect and LEED Accredited Professional with over 15 years of professional experience. She has expertise in restoring and rehabilitating cultural landscapes such as the Cedar Dell at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York; Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia (GA ASLA Merit Award); and Jay Heritage Center in Rye, New York (New York State Excellence in Historic Preservation Award). Charlotte holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with Honors from the University of Virginia and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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Joseph Charap is the Director of Horticulture and Curator at Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the New York Botanical Garden's School of Professional Horticulture. During Joseph’s second year of the program, he interned at Green-Wood, and upon graduating joined the Green-Wood team as Curator of Plant Collections. He is a certified arborist and has a Masters in English Literature from Brooklyn College.
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Sara Evans is Manager of Horticulture, Operations and Projects at The Green-Wood Cemetery. She oversees and supports Green-Wood research initiatives. Sara completed her undergraduate degree at Brooklyn College, where she studied urban sustainability with concentrations in environmental science and sociology.
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Julia Gold joined the SiteWorks team in 2016. She has since worked on a wide range of projects at a variety of scales, including overseeing plant installation and ongoing plant acclimation at the Ford Foundation of Social Justice Atrium. At SiteWorks she leads the firm’s contract document production and also supports the firm’s construction administration and management practice. Her project involvement has included project management, construction documentation, takeoffs and estimating, construction administration, and operations and maintenance planning.
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Adrienne Heflich, ASLA, RLA, is an Associate Principal with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates in Brooklyn, NY where she enjoys the collaborative opportunities and problem-solving challenges inherent to making public landscapes. Adrienne manages MVVA’s Dorothea Dix Park planning in Raleigh, NC as well as projects for Green-Wood Cemetery and Bella Abzug Park in New York City. Priorities that unite her work include integrating a local community’s ecological, cultural, and historic values into built projects; embedding accessibility throughout public spaces; and aligning designs with maintenance resources in support of long-term sustainability.
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Thomas Rainer is a leading voice in ecological landscape design, skillfully crafting spaces with a forward-thinking approach. As a registered landscape architect based in Arlington, Virginia, Thomas is an innovator in ecological planting for gardens and public spaces, focusing his efforts on merging ecology with horticulture to create dynamic, high-impact landscapes. His career features signature designs at landmark locations such as the U.S. Capitol grounds, Toronto Botanical Garden, and The New York Botanical Garden. He has designed over 125 residential gardens stretching from Maine to Florida.
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Anna Speidel joined Nelson Byrd Woltz (NBW) as a Designer in June of 2019 after receiving a Master of Landscape Architecture from the City College of New York, where she was awarded the Comprehensive Studio Prize in recognition of academic and design excellence, the ASLA-NY Honor Award for academic excellence, and the ASLA-NY Designing in the Public Realm Scholarship. Prior to joining NBW, she was a Landscape Fellow at the Gowanus Canal Conservancy in Brooklyn, New York. Anna brings an interest in using design as a tool for building social infrastructure and inspiring environmental stewardship for more inclusive, resilient, and adaptive places to live. Recent projects at NBW include the Hudson Yards Public Square and Gardens and ongoing implementation of the Georgia Tech Eco-Commons.
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Larry Weaner, FAPLD, founded Larry Weaner Landscape Associates in 1982 and New Directions in the American Landscape in 1990. His nationally recognized work combines horticulture, landscape design, and ecological restoration, and spans more than twenty U.S. states and the U.K. He has been profiled in national publications. His book, Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change (Timber Press, 2016) received an American Horticultural Society (AHS) Book Award in 2017. In 2021 he received the AHS Landscape Design Award and the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) Award of Distinction.
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Jenna Webster is a Senior Associate at Larry Weaner Landscape Associates (LWLA) and co-develops educational programming with LWLA’s affiliate, New Directions in the American Landscape (NDAL). She has worked on master plans for a range of private and public projects at LWLA. She is also an instructor in the Mt. Cuba Center Certificate Program, a member of the Professional Advisory Committee for the University of Delaware’s Dept. of Landscape Architecture, and a trustee of the Conway School in Northhampton, MA and the Crow’s Nest Research Center in Stafford, VA. She holds a M.A. from the Conway School (a graduate program in sustainable landscape planning and design) and a B.A. and M.Ed. from Harvard University.
“Always good to be out in the field ‘seeing’ the landscape through an ecologically technical lens and hear the successes and lessons learned from practical experience.”
“That was so valuable! The specifics were awesome, like traits of individual plants & design ideas (combinations & plants that tolerate each other in space & time). Specifics on species’ seed germination were wonderful!”
“This program really spoke to me. It addressed many issues I come across and inspired me to continue my work in this way.”
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