Spencer Tunnell, II ASLA
Atlanta, Georgia
Mr. Tunnell received his MLS and BSLA, as well as his MAH from the University of Virginia. Mr. Tunnell and wife Lisa are partners in Tunnell and Tunnell Landscape Architecture, specializing in institutional and residential projects, historic landscape preservation and restoration, and project management. Mr. Tunnell’s work includes the restoration of the Boxwood Garden at the Swan House for the Atlanta History Center, the Phase I Implementation of the Olmsted Linear Park in Druid Hills as lead landscape architect, and a new Master Plan and specific phase implementation for the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Mr. Tunnell is vice chair of the Atlanta Urban Design Commission and serves on the Boards of Gardens for Peace and the Cherokee Garden Library. He served as a member of the Charette Faculty for the Millennium Gate Foundation for their proposed monument in Washington, D.C., and will be an instructor of landscape architecture theory at the University of Georgia in 2001. He has written and lectured widely on landscape architecture and architecture history, including two articles in the recently published Pioneers of American Landscape Design.
Suzanne L. Turner FASLA
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Ms. Turner is professor emeriti of the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University, where she served as interim director, graduate program coordinator, and associate dean of the LSU College of Design. She is currently principal of Suzanne Turner Associates, a firm specializing in cultural resource history and management, community preservation planning, and landscape design. Turner has a long-standing interest in the preservation and interpretation of historic and cultural landscapes. Among her projects are Shadows-on-the-Teche in New Iberia, LA, the Hermann-Grima House in New Orleans, Bayou Bend Gardens and Rienzi in Houston, and Drayton Hall near Charleston (with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates). She has consulted on historic landscape projects in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Illinois. She has authored many book chapters and journal articles, and is co-author of The Gardens of Louisiana: Places of Work and Wonder (LSU Press, 1997).
Susan Van Atta ASLA
Santa Barbara, California
Ms. Van Atta's professional career and community participation have long reflected her concern for environmental quality and planning. In 1977, she graduated from the UCSB with a degree in Environmental Studies. This lead to a career in coastal planning and environmental impact assessment. Desiring to have a creative role in the environmental planning process, Susan enrolled at CPSU, San Luis Obispo, received a BS in Landscape Architecture in 1983 and founded her own firm in 1985. Since that time, Susan Van Atta has dedicated herself to environmentally appropriate landscape design, habitat restoration, and the use of native plants. She is often called upon to give lectures on topics of design and sustainability at seminars, colleges, and other community forums.
Noel Dorsey Vernon ASLA
Pomona, California
Ms. Vernon received an MLA, an MA in history, and a BSLA from Ohio State University, and a BA from Antioch College. Since 1993, she has served as Associate Dean of the College of Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is a past Chair, Co-chair, and Vice Chair of the ASLA Historic Preservation Interest Group. Her most recent publication was “Adolph Strauch: Garden- & Grove-maker of the Midwest” in Midwestern Landscape Architecture.
Alan Ward FASLA
Watertown, Massachusetts
Mr. Ward has a degree in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati and an MLA from Harvard. He is a landscape architect and urban designer with over 25 years of experience at Sasaki Associates, including projects such as the Dallas Arts District, Reston Town Center, and Cleveland Gateway, which have received multiple national awards. He was principal landscape architect for the first-prize winning 2008 Beijing Olympic Green. Mr. Ward has taught in both architecture and landscape architecture, and is the author and photographer of the book American Designed Landscapes: A Photographic Interpretation. His photographs of designed landscapes have appeared in over 150 books and magazines, as well as numerous exhibitions. Alan was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2002.
website: Sasaki Associates
Marjorie S. L. White
Birmingham, Alabama
Author, Editor, Educator, Director of the Birmingham Historical Society, a private, non-profit dedicated to research, publications and other venues of public education about the region's historic resources; Author/Editor, Designs on Birmingham, A Landscape History of a Southern City and Its Suburbs, 1989, winner of an ASLA Merit Award, 1990; currently researching the Olmsted Brothers work in the late 1920s in Birmingham Parks.
Dr. Victoria Williams
Louisville, Kentucky
Ms. Williams holds a Masters in Business Administration, a Masters in Instructional Design, and a Doctorate in Program Evaluation and Measurement Statistics. For 15 years, she served as the Director of Academic Computing for two different universities. In 1997, she created Inquiring Minds, a measurement and evaluation design consulting group in Louisville. She works with non-profits such as United Way and the American Lung Association to design surveys and standardized tests. In 1982, Victoria started designing educational interactive video and compact discs. She is a frequent guest lecturer in research methodologies at the University of Louisville.
Thomas Woltz
Charlottesville, Virginia
Mr. Woltz is a landscape architect who holds Masters degrees in Architecture and in Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia. He studied Architecture and Fine Art as an undergraduate and later studied architecture in Italy and French Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 2003 he became a partner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in Charlottesville, Virginia following seven years working with partner Warren Byrd and five years working in Venice, Italy. In addition to his practice, Mr. Woltz maintains a part-time faculty position at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. He currently teaches Sites and Systems, a graduate course which explores ecological system analysis as a generator of design strategies in architecture and landscape architecture. Through teaching and constructed form, he seeks to emphasize the rich dialogue between the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and ecological process.
Mr Woltz is currently designing a number of projects,(some dealing with large scale environmental conservation efforts) in Central Virginia, Jamaica, the New York region, and in New Zealand. Nelson Byrd Woltz opened a branch office in Manhattan in 2004 and since then Mr. Woltz has divided his time between the two offices.
website: Nelson Byrd Woltz