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To mark our 25th year of showcasing innovative and much-honored landscape design professionals and their contributions to this ever-changing field, we invite three outstanding landscape architects from around the world-Richard Roark, Michelle Delk, and Sierra Bainbridge-to highlight their signature projects, working methods, and design philosophies.


Nature Remixed: Reimagining Community and Biodiversity in Cities
Richard Roark | October 3 | Online | 242LAN801BO
With accreditations in LEED and Sustainable SITES, landscape architect Richard Roark is committed to creating ecologically-sound public landscapes. Among the several projects he will present are the American Embassy in London, the expansive 51-mile Los Angeles River Master Plan, Hunts Point in the Bronx, and the Infrastructure Plan for the communities of Caño Martín Peña in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Each of these sites, formerly contaminated or, as Roark says, "cast off" and "left behind," were renewed, becoming not only visually delighting, but also healthy.

A partner of the Philadelphia-based firm OLIN, Richard Roark holds a Masters in both Landscape Architecture and Community Planning from Auburn University. He is dedicated to invigorating the public realm, promoting social justice, and creating opportunities for all, and his efforts have been recognized in his field with, among many other honors, the American Society of Landscape Architects' 2020 Urban Design Award of Excellence for Dilworth Park in Chicago.


Playful Dualities of Public Spaces
Michelle Delk | October 17 | Online | 242LAN801CO
For over 20 years, landscape architect Michelle Delk, partner at New York-based firm, Sn∅hetta, has led projects ranging from master plans and brownfield redevelopments to urban parks, streetscapes, and riverfronts. Her work follows her firm's foundational premise: to create places that enhance the positive relationships between people and their environments.

From urban canopies to canyons; intimate sculpture gardens to wild west landscapes; rocking seesaws to post-modern histories, Delk will share the intriguing dualities she has explored in recent projects, including the Willamette Falls Riverwalk in Oregon, a transformation of a 22-acre post-industrial site; the innovation collaborative design of the Calgary Public Library Plaza in Alberta, Canada; and the re-imagining of a significant public plaza in midtown Manhattan.

Michelle Delk is a passionate advocate and designer of the public realm. She encourages innovative approaches to collaboration that are non-hierarchical and trans-disciplinary. Throughout her career, Delk has engaged with a variety of landscape advocacy organizations, curatorial projects, and academic institutions. For her exceptional contributions to the landscape architecture profession and society at large, she has been named a 2023 member of the ASLA Council of Fellows.


Learning from Rwanda: Designing for One Health
Sierra Bainbridge | November 14 | Online | 242LAN801DO
In 2008, the innovative MASS Design Group co-founded by Sierra Bainbridge, began its work in Rwanda, focusing on the Butaro District Hospital. Lessons learned in collaboration with community partners, clinicians, and government officials continuously informed MASS's one health design approach-which focuses on the interconnection of human, animal, and ecological health and the development of "no harm" design solutions. Bainbridge will share insights into why this design approach is essential to creating a balanced, biodiverse, and mutually supportive future as she presents the Butaro project as well as the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture and The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

As cross-disciplinary Senior Principal and Managing Director, architect, licensed landscape architect, and educator, Sierra Bainbridge oversees MASS's landscape architecture department and the design and implementation of MASS's projects in the United States and Africa. Bainbridge has served as Head of the Architecture Department at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in Rwanda. She lectures widely, including at the Harvard GSD, and served as a Sasaki Distinguished Visiting Critic at the Boston Architectural College. She holds a Masters in both Landscape Architecture and Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

We offer Continuing Education credits (CEUS) for LA CES and APLD for successful completion of these lectures.

Support generously provided by the Heimbold Family.

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Schedule:	Three Tuesdays; 10/03/23, 10/17/23, & 11/14/23
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Meeting Date Start Time End Time Tuesday, October 3, 2023 06:30pm 07:30pm Tuesday, October 17, 2023 06:30pm 07:30pm Tuesday, November 14, 2023 06:30pm 07:30pm Meeting Date Start Time End Time Tuesday, October 3, 2023 06:30pm 07:30pm Tuesday, October 17, 2023 06:30pm 07:30pm Tuesday, November 14, 2023 06:30pm 07:30pm
Speaker:	Richard Roark Richard Roark Richard Roark Richard Roark, a landscape architect with accreditations in LEED and Sustainable SITES, centers his work around creating sustainable, economical, and thoughtfully crafted public landscapes. Spanning a variety of scales and types, Roark's portfolio ranges from the bustling Eastern Market of Detroit to the expansive 51 miles of the Los Angeles River. At the heart of his work lies a dedication to invigorating the public realm while ensuring that development brings value without displacement, promotes social justice, and creates opportunities for all. His commitment to shared, ecologically-sound landscapes can be seen in projects like the post Superstorm Sandy restoration of the Red Hook Homes in Brooklyn, the Northwest Resilience Park in Hoboken, New Jersey, and the comprehensive infrastructure plan for the environmental justice communities of Caño Martín Peña in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Roark's efforts have been recognized in his field. In 2020, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) awarded the Urban Design Award of Excellence for Dilworth Park. He received the Community Strategy of the Year award at the 2018 Detroit Community Development Awards for his Eastern Market 2025 Strategy. His work on Dilworth Park also earned the Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum in 2016. In 2021, the Floodplain Management Association recognized his contribution to the LA River Master Plan Update with the Integrated Floodplain Management Award. His commitment to sustainable practices is evident in his Circular Soils project, which received the EPA 2022 Phase 2 and Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Grants for building green infrastructure soils from food compost and waste glass and a 2022 ASLA Honor Award for Research. Recently, Roark completed a comprehensive infrastructure plan for the communities of Caño Martín Peña and a rewilding plan for a heavily mined quarry landscape at Sojourner Truth Park. Beyond his projects, Roark serves on the board of Studio Ludo, a non-profit advocating for innovative play research. Michelle Delk Michelle Delk Michelle Delk Michelle Delk is a passionate advocate and designer of the public realm. Her work is evocative and representative of a foundational premise shared with Snûhetta: to create places that enhance the positive relationships between people and their environments. As a landscape architect, Michelle encourages innovative approaches to collaboration that are non-hierarchical and trans-disciplinary. Throughout her career, she has engaged with a variety of landscape advocacy organizations, curatorial projects, and academic institutions. Clear thinking and conscientious principles characterize Michelle's leadership and her natural ability for engaging diverse communities and clients. Informed by these involvements, she seeks to discover and expand the urban landscape vernacular; striving to express the subtleties of place through exploring the values and incongruities of memory, environment, and social perceptions. Both aspirational and pragmatic, her work reveals and engages both the sublime and the rational within the constructed environment. Michelle's diverse background grew from the humble yet expansive perspective of her childhood in rural Iowa, her graduate education in the rapidly evolving Denver, CO, and her current long-term home in New York City. She guides many complex projects ranging from master plans and brownfield redevelopments to realizations of urban plazas, parks, streetscapes, and riverfronts. Currently, she leads several efforts with Snûhetta, including the transformation of Ford's Research & Engineering Campus in Dearborn, Michigan, the renovation of 550 Madison public garden in Midtown Manhattan, and the creation of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota. Sierra Bainbridge Sierra Bainbridge Sierra Bainbridge Sierra Bainbridge was a co-founding member of MASS in 2008, and oversaw design and construction of the Butaro Hospital in Rwanda. As cross-disciplinary Senior Principal and Managing Director, architect, licensed landscape architect, and educator, Sierra oversees MASS's landscape architecture department and the design and implementation of MASS's projects in the United States and Africa. By working deeply across disciplines to radically reshape the material supply chain project by project, Sierra is pushing to help shift MASS's portfolio to approach carbon neutrality as close to project completion as possible. This began with working with the African Wildlife Foundation on the Ilima Primary School through their African Conservation Schools initiative and continues to be tested at scale through educational agricultural campuses including Farm Hub in the Hudson Valley and the Rwanda institute for Conservation Agriculture in Bugesera, Rwanda. Sierra is also working on multiple campuses with indigenous communities in North Dakota, Louisiana, and California and has overseen the development of international design standards such as The African Wildlife Foundation's Guidelines for Conservation and creation of healthcare guidelines for Rwanda. Prior to joining MASS, Sierra worked for four years at James Corner Field Operations, primarily in design and oversight of implementation of Section 1 of the New York City High Line. Sierra has taught graduate level studios at various universities and from 2010-2012, Sierra served as Head of the Architecture Department at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) in Rwanda. At KIST, Sierra was instrumental in shaping the current curriculum. She is invited to speak regularly, including the keynote address at the Healthcare Design Conference, serving as a Sasaki Distinguished Visiting Critic at the Boston Architectural College, and lecturing at the Carter 'Lectures In African Studies' series, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, University of Toronto, and the American Institute of Architects, among others. Select features of Sierra's work with MASS Design Group include A+U Magazine, Lotus, Mark Magazine, and Detail. She is on the Executive Board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation, and taught Options Studio at Harvard GSD in 2020 and 2021. Sierra received her Bachelors of Arts in Art and Architectural History from Smith College and her Masters of Landscape Architecture and Masters of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Session Number:	242LAN801AO

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