ASLA Rebroadcast of Drawing Lecture with David Malda

April 29, 2020 - ASLA will offer a rebroadcast of Drawing Still Matters: Exploring the Value of Drawing in Landscape Architecture, GGN Principal David Malda’s panel discussion with Michael Batts (STEWART) and Kona Gray (EDSA), first delivered at the ASLA Conference in Landscape Architecture in San Diego in November 2019.

The discussion explores the power of drawing to connect cultures, disciplines, and generations, with particular reference to GGN’s work on the John Trevino Jr. Metropolitan Park Master Plan in Austin, Texas, thus supporting an on-going dialogue around the unique potential for this place.

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Jennifer Guthrie Delivers Charles H. Burger Landscape Architecture Lecture at NC State

February 26, 2020 - Jennifer Guthrie delivered the Charles H. Burger Landscape Architecture Lecture at North Carolina State University. The lecture, entitled "20 + 20", reflected on the practice and work of GGN over the past twenty years, and looked to what the next twenty years will bring. Projects discussed included the Lurie Garden and India Basin Shoreline Park.

A recording of the lecture in its entirety can be viewed online here.

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Shannon Nichol Invited to Take Part in Landscape Practices Seminar at Harvard GSD

February 21, 2020 - Shannon Nichol was invited to take part in Harvard’s Graduate School of Design’s Spring 2020 elective seminar, Landscape Practices, which featured lectures by a range of landscape architecture practitioners working at various scales and stages of their careers.

Led by Chris Reed, “the seminar will shed light upon the ways in which a diverse array of practitioners and designers have both conceptualized what they do—the nature of and ideas behind their work—and operationalized it in terms of how they do it—the mechanisms, structures, and strategies that put their ideas into play.“

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David Malda Presents at Country Living Expo & Cattlemen's Winterschool

January 25, 2020 - GGN Principal David Malda taught a two-session class called “Introduction to Landscape Design” at the County Living Expo and Cattlemen’s Winterschool in Skagit County, WA. The event was hosted by Hosted by Stanwood FFA and presented by the Livestock Master Foundation, WSU Skagit & Snohomish County Extension Livestock Advisor Program and the Cattlemen’s Association.

The intro class “focused on design fundamentals to help improve and design individual landscapes from the ground up. Particular emphasis will be given to: site analysis, exploring how you have used or want to use your landscape or outdoor space, and connecting your home to your outdoor living space and the surrounding environment.”

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Kathryn Gustafson Gives Lecture at the Bainbridge Art Museum

November 3, 2019 - Kathryn Gustafson delivered a lecture at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art entitled “The Sky is Mine.” Followed by an intimate wine reception with 250 guests, the lecture focused on the creative development and impact of five projects Kathryn worked on with GGN and Gustafson Porter + Bowman, respectively: the City of Paris' Site Tour Eiffel winning design just awarded in May; the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in London; the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery; the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.; and Valencia's Parque Central.

Proceeds from the event supported the Heronswood Art in the Garden fund.

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Shannon Nichol Delivers Adleman Lecture at Cornell University

October 23, 2019 - Shannon Nichol delivered the second annual Adleman Lecture at Cornell University, titled “Repair Work: Drawing and Building Parts of the Landscape.” This annual memorial lecture is endowed by Michael R. Van Valkenburgh in honor of Professor Marvin I. Adleman. The lecture took place at 6:15 on October 23 at 151 Warren Hall on the Cornell campus in Ithaca, NY.

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Kathryn Gustafson Delivers Alan H Rider Lecture at Carnegie Mellon

October 21, 2019 - Kathryn Gustafson delivered the Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University on October 21. Her lecture, titled “Designing in Paris, Valencia, Hong Kong & Hazelwood,” addressed the complexities of designing on sites with vastly different challenges: overwhelming tourism, invasive infrastructures, and industrial migrations, and discussed past projects including including the landscape design of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC and the public plaza of Hazelwood Green in Pittsburgh.

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Sara Zewde Presents at the 4th Annual Morton B. Gulak Lecture

October 25, 2016 - Sara Zewde presented at the 4th Annual Morton B. Gulak Urban and Regional Planning Lecture at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. In her lecture, "Design in the Southern City Now," Sara maintained that planners and designers have a unique opportunity to negotiate cultural memory in the Southern City through the design of the public realm." Sara discussed opportunities in infrastructure design, plazas and parks, streetscapes, and the Question of the Civil War Memorial. Following the lecture, Sara conducted a roundtable discussion among mayoral candidates and city officials in the city of Richmond, Virginia.

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