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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.
Green-Wood has also worked to ensure that the landscape's evolution is continually informed by its ecological, socio-cultural, and historical contexts. Green-Wood’s recent work with The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has aimed to develop overarching principles and values for managing change in the National Historic Landmark-designated landscape. A large-scale community assessment was performed for Green-Wood by the research- and community-focused firm Grain Collective. TCLF Founder Charles Birnbaum and Grain Collective Principal Sapna Advani will present on these respective efforts.
When: Friday, September 6th, 2024 | 9 AM - 4:30 PM*
Where: The Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Category: Professional
Fee: $295
Student & Wild Ones members discounts available:
Students please choose the Student Rate below to register and bring your student ID/verification of student status to the program.
Wild Ones members please email info@ndal.org with verification of member status (ie. Membership ID card) for discount code or look out for an email from NDAL/Wild Ones with the code.
CEUs available: APLD, ISA, LA CES, NOFA, SER
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Register by: Wednesday, Sept. 4th, 2024, 9 AM ET (2 days prior)
Limited attendance!
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*Times listed above include instructional time & breaks. There will be 6 instructional hours.
Light breakfast, lunch, and refreshments are included in the registration fee.
Check-in & breakfast begin at 8:30 AM ET.
This session will be held both indoors and outdoors.
Cancellations received by August 30, 2024, 9 AM ET will receive a full refund. We are unable to provide refunds after August 30.
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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Sapna Advani is a Principal and the Director of Urban Planning at Grain Collective, where she leads with an unwavering commitment to reshaping urban environments through equitable and diverse community-driven design. Her approach emphasizes rich public engagement and participatory design to generate communal spaces that are both functional and meaningful.
With over 15 years of urban design and planning experience in both public and private sectors, Sapna has spearheaded projects ranging from community visioning and resiliency planning to strategic development of libraries and frameworks for sustainable futures. In addition to The Green-Wood Historic Fund, clients and collaborators include the Prospect Park Alliance, the Brooklyn Greenway in Red Hook, Fifth Avenue Committee in Gowanus, Brooklyn Public Library, and New York City Housing Authority.
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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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Charles A. Birnbaum is President, CEO, and Founder of The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF). He previously served as the coordinator of the National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative (1992-2007) and spent a decade in private practice in New York City with a focus on urban design and cultural landscapes. Since 2020 he has served as a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He has authored and edited numerous publications and received ASLA’s LaGasse Medal (2008), President’s Medal (2009), and the ASLA Medal (2017). In 2023, TCLF was awarded the ASLA’s Olmsted Medal on its 25th anniversary.
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Joseph Charap is the Vice President of Horticulture 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 the Director of the Living Collections and Curator at Green-Wood. Born and raised in Maryland, she developed a deep sense of environmental stewardship and community responsibility through her involvement in Chesapeake Bay, Patuxent River, and Potomac River conservation projects with her church and school volunteer groups. She completed her undergrad degree at Brooklyn College where she earned a BA in Urban Sustainability with concentrations in environmental science and sociology. At Green-Wood, Sara’s passion for understanding intricate connections between nature, people, and their interactions comes to life. She manages the plant records of Green-Wood’s arboretum, supervises environmental research initiatives, curates the living collections, and oversees the day-to-day operations of the horticulture department.
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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.
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Toby Wolf, PLA, designs landscapes that are inclusive, engaging, authentic, and thoroughly alive. His designs reveal, abstract, and express each site’s greatest human and ecological potential, arriving at landscapes of biodiversity, legibility, and beauty. His recent clients include The Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Wellesley College, Mount Auburn Cemetery, the Native Plant Trust, Colby College, Cornell University, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy. Toby’s projects have been featured in the New York Times and have received awards from the BSLA, the PPA, the APLD, and SCUP. He has served as board member and president of the Ecological Landscape Alliance.
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