{"id":31861,"date":"2019-11-12T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-swa-2019.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=stories&p=31861"},"modified":"2019-11-14T06:38:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T06:38:25","slug":"swa-at-the-asla-conference-on-landscape-architecture","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.swagroup.com\/stories\/swa-at-the-asla-conference-on-landscape-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"SWA at the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]This year\u2019s ASLA Conference (formerly known as the ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO), being held November 15-18 in San Diego, California, will feature a robust presence from SWA\u2019s leaders and designers. We are deeply engaged in shaping the design professions\u2019 approaches to human, environmental, and urban challenges, and look forward to the opportunity to engage with our peers. Linked below are the presentations in which we\u2019re participating: we hope to see you at one of them![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”31864″ img_size=”200×200″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Friday, November 15 (3:30 \u2013 5:00 P.M.)<\/strong><\/p>\n Ying-yu Hung, FASLA<\/strong> will be participating in an Ideas Lab focused on \u201cFour Unique Riverfront Visions for Reinventing the Nation\u2019s Third Coast,\u201d together with Hana Ishikawa of Site Design Group; Kate Tooke of Sasaki and Sarah Astheimer of James Corner Field Operations. The managing principal of SWA\u2019s Los Angeles studio, Ying-yu will contribute her experience on the Chicago River Edge Ideas Lab exhibition, which explored innovative concepts for placemaking along the Chicago River. The panel will examine four unique visions to demonstrate how riverfronts can reclaim their use as recreational and natural resources, catalyze development, and become hubs of entertainment and civic life. Tom Balsley,<\/strong> managing principal of SWA\/Balsley in New York City, will be speaking on \u201cThe Social Life of Small Urban Spaces Forty Years Later<\/a>,\u201d revisiting some of the ideas of William H. Whyte and how their impacts have resonated in landscape architecture and urban design approaches since the publication of his influential 1980 work. (Please see Sunday\u2019s activities, below, for more on Tom\u2019s second presentation.)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”31865″ img_size=”200×200″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Saturday, November 16 (3:30 – 4:45 P.M.)<\/strong><\/p>\n Gerdo Aquino, FASLA<\/strong> will address \u201cThe Mysterious and Misunderstood Future of Urban Waterways<\/a>,\u201d together with Christopher Hawthorne, Chief Design Officer, City of Los Angeles, and Thomas Aujero Small, Council Member and Former Mayor of the City of Culver City. As SWA CEO, Gerdo\u2019s work often engages underused or overlooked infrastructure corridors for their potential as urban green space. This panel will address ways in which urban waterways can become central spines of culture, nature, and social equity while remediating past interventions like channelization.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”31867″ img_size=”200×200″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Sunday, November 17 (2:00 \u2013 3:00 PM)<\/strong><\/p>\n Michael Robinson<\/strong>, an SWA associate principal with our Houston studio, will join Meghen Quinn of Hargreaves Associates and Zachary Chrisco of Sasaki for \u201cLandscapes in Flux: Design Research Lessons from Three Exemplary Waterfronts.<\/a>\u201d This talk will share research into landscape projects\u2019 performance objectives in light of increasingly relevant climate-related challenges, through the lens of Houston\u2019s Buffalo Bayou Park, the Chicago Riverwalk, and San Francisco\u2019s Crissy Field.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”31868″ img_size=”200×200″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Sunday, November 17 (3:30 \u2013 4:45 PM)<\/strong><\/p>\n New York-based SWA\/Balsley managing principal Tom Balsley\u2019s<\/strong> second ASLA Conference talk, \u201cTwo Parks\/Two Boroughs\/One River<\/a>,\u201d will address his work on the multiple-award-winning Hunter\u2019s Point South Waterfront Park in Long Island City and its similarities and differences to Domino Park in Williamsburg, which was designed by James Corner Field Operations.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”31869″ img_size=”200×200″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Monday, November 18 (10:30 AM – 11:45 AM)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”31868″ img_size=”200×200″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Saturday, November 16 (2:00 – 3:00 P.M.)<\/strong><\/p>\n