Dallas’ Influential Landscape Architecture subject of daylong “Second Wave of Modernism IV: Making Space within Place” conference October 4, 2019

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Conference is bracketed by an opening reception and a day of tours and mobile workshops

Washington, D.C. (July 11, 2019) – The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) today announced a one-day conference Second Wave of Modernism IV: Making Space within Place will be held on Friday, October 4, 2019, 8:30AM – 5:00PM, in the Horchow Auditorium of the Dallas Museum of Art. The conference will highlight the city’s leadership with projects that balance design with natural and cultural values and the imperative to deal with climate change. It will also showcase the city’s public-private initiatives and recent innovations in creative management and stewardship. The conference will feature experts from throughout the U.S. and the Dallas area. It will be preceded by an opening reception on Thursday, October 3 at the Nasher Sculpture Center (separate registration required) and will be followed by a day of tours and mobile workshops on Saturday, October 5 (separate registration required). Early bird registration rates of $295 for the conference and $95 for the reception are now available through August 16. A select number of student tickets are available for $95; 6.25 LA CES® professional development hours available, and 6.25 CE Learning Units for AIA members. The conference is made possible by Lead Sponsors ABC Stone, Bartlett Tree Experts, Whitacre Greer and Victor Stanley, Event Partners The Dallas Architectural Forum and the American Society of Landscape Architects, and many others. Complete information and registration, along with speaker bios and abstracts, is available at the conference website.

Introductory presentations by three leaders in landscape architecture will illuminate the role that landscape architects have played in laying the foundation for today’s planning and design work by exploring several iconic projects completed in the Dallas Arts District over the past 35 years. A morning panel, titled Transforming the Downtown Core, will examine four projects that are currently in the design or construction phase in downtown Dallas, revealing how a public-private partnership was able to facilitate the development of these priority parks in the urban core. The afternoon panel, Transforming and Connecting the City, will be a forward-looking discussion of larger-scale projects currently underway (i.e., in the planning, design, or execution phase) that aim to balance, leverage, and steward both natural and cultural resources. The closing panel, featuring leaders in landscape architecture, planning, journalism, patronage, and stewardship, will reflect on the day’s presentations. 

Confirmed participants include:

Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, President & CEO, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Brent A. Brown, AIA, CEO & President, Trinity Park Conservancy

Dustin Bullard, ASLA, Senior Vice President of Planning and Public Space, Downtown Dallas, Inc.

James Burnett, FASLA, President, OJB Landscape Architecture

Isabel Castilla, ASLA, Partner, James Corner Field Operations

Robert W. Decherd, Chairman, President and CEO, A. H. Belo Corporation

Philip C. Henderson, FAIA, Board Trustee, The Loop Circuit Trail Conservancy

Mary Margaret Jones, FASLA, FAAR, President/Senior Principal, Hargreaves Associates 

Mark Lamster, Architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News

Veletta Forsythe Lill, former Executive Director, Dallas Arts District

Chuck McDaniel, FASLA, Managing Principal, Dallas, SWA

Amy M. Meadows, President, Parks for Downtown Dallas

Janette Monear, President & CEO, Texas Trees Foundation

Christine E. Ten Eyck, FASLA, President, Ten Eyck Landscape Architects

Gail Thomas, Ph.D., Hon. AIA, Director, Center for the City of The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture

Peter Ker Walker, Principal, (firm of) Peter Ker Walker

Peter Walker, FASLA, Partner, PWP Landscape Architecture

Willis C. Winters, Director, Dallas Parks and Recreation 

The conference in perspective

Making Space within Place is the fourth installment in an ongoing series of conferences about the Second Wave of Modernism. Earlier conferences on that theme were held at the University of Toronto (2015), New York’s Museum of Modern Art (2011), and the Chicago Architecture Foundation (2008). They have taken multidisciplinary approaches to understanding the balance that exists between the stewardship of natural and cultural resources and the evolving identities of urban areas. Conference attendees include landscape architects and allied practitioners, urban planners and related municipal officials, stewardship advocates, educators, and other interested parties.

About The Cultural Landscape Foundation

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1998 with a mission of “connecting people to places.” TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards. Through its website, publishing, lectures, and other events, TCLF broadens support and understanding for cultural landscapes.