The Landscape Architecture Podcast

KIM GARRISON AND STEVE RADOSEVICH COLLABORATE TO PRODUCE CONCEPT-DRIVEN INSTALLATIONS AND INTERACTIVE PROJECTS. THROUGH SCULPTURE, PERFORMANCE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND STORYTELLING, THEIR WORK EXPLORES THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN RITUAL, ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNITY AND SELF. http://larchitect.org/

Madena moved to the Mojave Desert from Los Angeles in 2016 for her dream job; managing MDLT’s Native Plant Restoration Nursery, Mojave Desert Seed Bank, herbarium, and living collections. She has over fifteen years of experience working with California native plants and has always had a fondness for desert plants. Prior to joining MDLT, she was director of horticulture at the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants, where she oversaw their nursery, seed program, bulb program, and living collections. As MDLT’s director of plant conservation programs, her focus is on restoring desert habitats, educating others about the importance of our diverse desert flora, and preserving this diversity for generations to come. http://larchitect.org/

Airplants (tillandsia) are living sculptures, with a personality all their own. They thrive suspended in air, unconstrained by the limits of soil. This incredible ability, combined with their otherworldly form, inspired Josh Rosen to create products as unique as the plants themselves. As a landscape architect, artist, and horticulturalist, Airplantman was up to the challenge to create the best way to showcase his airplants. Built with an eye for fine design, craftsmanship, sustainability, and a genuine obsession for all things airplant, the Airplantman Designs product line was developed. http://larchitect.org/

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IMPLEMENT is a design-focused landscape architecture practice based in Columbus Ohio; the studio name speaks to our ambition and reflects the pragmatic values that have shaped the agricultural and industrial landscapes of our Midwestern context. Our work explores the potential of landscape to be a tool for creative change, community engagement, and dynamic place-making. Lead by Design Principal Jason Kentner, the studio leverages its facility for conceptual visualization and strategic planning along with a craftsman-like attention to the quality of materials and resolution of construction details. That design dexterity allows the studio to work across scales from large to small; in a variety of contexts from rural to urban; and within a range of project typologies from parks and gardens to vacant lots and post-industrial sites. http://larchitect.org/

In this dispatch Larchitect flew out to Austin Texas to talk to TBG Partners. Not only was Austin Texas as cool and weird as everyone says it is but it didn’t take long to realize that TBG Partners fit right into this iconic city. Throughout this conversation we weave in and out of profiling the firm and TBG’s experience with implementing AutoDesk’s Building Information Modeling software called Revit. Initially Revit was marketed towards Architects but as of late has began to permeate throughout the Landscape Architecture community. TBG is a landscape architecture firm, specialized in community development, corporate campuses, civic spaces, hotels, hospitals and educational facilities. With offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio; Implementation of a new software within their design process needs to be well understood and strategic to maximize a return on their investment. Follow along as we discuss how they approach this roll out. I would like to give a special thanks to TBG’s Public Relations and Digital Media Manager Catherine Saunders for her extraordinary coordination efforts to make this dispatch possible. http://larchitect.org/

Brian Kinzleman sits down with Michael Todoran at MKSK in Columbus, OH. They discuss a wide variety of topics including what it is like to merge two landscape architecture companies into one, highlighted projects such as the Scioto Mile and Scioto Greenways, fiscal responsibilities as a firm, Amazon’s short list of potential cities for their second headquarters, and more. http://larchitect.org/

Dorothée Imbert is the current chair and head of landscape architecture at The Ohio State University. Dorothée and Michael Todoran took advantage of Spring in Ohio to sit and chat in the southern garden of Knowlton Hall designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh. During their discussion they talk about what lured her into accepting the position at OSU, a collaborative symposium with Sarah Cowles entitled “This is a Test: Landscape as Site for Research”. The 12:1 slopes in Knowlton Hall, what it’s like for a landscape architecture program to be under the college of engineering, designing 'The Square and Pavilion' in Basel, Switzerland with her husband Andrew Cruse, American Football, monuments, and her latest book “Landscape Inventories: Michel Desvigne Paysagiste”. It was a pleasure to sit down with Dorotée. We hope that you enjoy this conversation as much as we enjoyed creating it. http://larchitect.org/

Falon is an award-winning landscape architect and professional artist. Her recent awards include the winning commission for the Central Avenue Public Art project in Baltimore and an Emerging Artist Award from the Houston Arts Alliance. A Florida native, Falon has a degree in Natural Sciences from New College of Florida and a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the recipient of the distinguished Dan Tuttle Endowed Scholarship Award for Design Excellence and the American Society of Landscape Architects Graduate Honor Award. Prior to founding Falon Land Studio, she practiced as a landscape architect at Sasaki Associates where she was the Lead Plant Designer for the Arlington National Cemetery Expansion Project, and a project designer for campuses, urban plazas, children's gardens, and an ecological resort. Falon is the Chair of Landscape Architecture Magazine's National Editorial Board, Vice Chair of the BikeHouston Board of Directors, and a member of the Rice Design Alliance's Cite Editorial Committee. Falon is a licensed landscape architect in Florida, Texas, and Illinois with a deep knowledge of plants and ecosystems of the Gulf Coast region. http://larchitect.org/

Dr. González is a Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University Fullerton. Prof. González has 20 years of experience as a program evaluator and strategic planner for healthy communities with an emphasis in Latinx communities and communities of color. His interest in planning processes and discourses stem from analyzing ways and reasons in which local community development practices and policies are made, implemented, questioned, and of the associated outcomes. In today’s podcast we will discuss Dr. Erualdo R. González’s book Latino City: Urban Planning, Politics and the Grassroots. The book is written as an in-depth case study where he tackles and addresses critical questions about present-day redevelopment models for central city downtown areas such as new urbanism, creative city, and transit-oriented development in areas with a substantial latinx population by revealing the history of Santa Ana’s city commercial redevelopment plans. Not only does his research reveal redevelopment plans, controversies and grassroots struggles in isolation but he analyzes them critically as a connected part of a larger narrative that includes race, ethnicity, and immigration, especially from Mexico. He also dives into topics such as class, privilege, community redevelopment, political economy, and grassroots activism and analyzes these constructs in context. http://larchitect.org/

Robert Andrade approaches making art through various media including sculpture, video, photography, graphic design, drawing and sound. He typically investigate issues related to urbanism, architecture and spatial production. Often times he references ideas related to the built environment such as architecture in various styles and fragments pointing to historical icons and contemporary culture. Along with this Andrade is fascinated with public space such as malls, gardens and plazas. Andrade has exhibited throughout the United states including Chicago, New York City, Southern California, and Dallas. He has attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago for his BFA and Cornell University for his MFA. Most recently he was accepted to the MLA + Urbanism program at University of Southern California and will begin Fall 2018. http://larchitect.org/

Billy Fleming is research coordinator for the Ian L. McHarg Center at PennDesign. Most recently, he co-authored The Indivisible Guide—a progressive, grassroots organization with more than 6,000 groups—and co-created Data Refuge, an international consortium of scientists, librarians, and programmers working to preserve vital the environmental data at risk of erasure during the Trump Administration. Before coming to Penn, Fleming worked on urban policy development in the White House Domestic Policy Council during the Obama Administration. There, he worked on a variety of urban initiatives, including the inter-agency Sustainable Communities Initiative, the Promise Zones program, and the landmark Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule. Billy holds a professional Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (University of Arkansas), a Master of Community and Regional Planning (University of Texas), and a PhD in City and Regional Planning (University of Pennsylvania). http://larchitect.org/

Joy Kuebler, RLA, ASLA is Past President NY Upstate Chapter ASLA, and President of Joy Kuebler Landscape Architect, PC an award winning firm with work focusing on the human experience in the landscape. In 2007 Joy was named one of the “40 under 40” by Business First, and was recently recognized as the 2016 Ellen Shipman Distinguished Private Practitioner by the NYUASLA Chapter. Her firm has been recognized as a Buffalo Fast Track Company and one of Key Banks’ Most Innovative Small Businesses. Joy received a B.S. from Cornell University, and is a graduate of the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership CORE and Advanced CORE programs with the University at Buffalo’s School of Management. http://larchitect.org/

Audrey is the principal architect of Sato Architects and a lecturer at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona also known as Cal Poly. Audrey is the host of the XX-LA Architects http://www.xx-la.com/ Podcast which was inspired in part by being in awe of female architects and wanted to both hear and share their stories. http://larchitect.org/

At ASLA 2017 we sat down with Matthew Leasure who is a Landscape Architect, Urban Planner, and Policy writer. We discuss the significance of policy writing and it’s relationship to landscape architecture. Matt is interested in the historical preservation of architecture and landscapes. http://larchitect.org/