Lynda Schneekloth
with Great Places Jurors
Lecture Title: Awarding Excellence: The Great Places Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Environmental Design and Planning
Friday, February 26, 2010
5:00 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Lecture:
Lynda H. Schneekloth
Discussion with Jurors:
•
Ralph E. Johnson, Perkins & Will Architects
•
Laura J. Lawson, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign
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David Miller, Miller/Hull Partnership and Architecture, University of
Washington
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Lynda Schneekloth, Architecture and Planning, State University of New
York, Buffalo
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Kathleen L. Wolf, College of the Environment, University of Washington,
Seattle
The
Great Places Awards,
jointly sponsored by the journal Places, EDRA (the
Environmental Design Research Association) and
Metropolis Magazine, recognize professional and scholarly excellence
in environmental design and planning. The environmental design units in
the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois will
host the jury for the 12th annual Great Places Awards on February 25-26, 2010. In recognition of the
culmination of this jury, this lecture will provide attendees with
insights into the workings of the competition and into the development
of outstanding public spaces. Juror and long-time EDRA member Lynda
Schneekloth will provide an introduction to the awards that will discuss
their history as well as criteria for making great places for people. A
discussion with the five jurors will follow.
The
Great Places Awards
program is distinguished by its interdisciplinary focus, its emphasis on
how an understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design,
and its commitment to promoting links between design research and
practice.
Throughout the history of this awards program, entries have represented
the full breadth of environmental design and related social science
activity, including: architecture, landscape architecture, planning,
urban design, interior design, public art, lighting design, graphic
design, environmental psychology, sociology, anthropology and geography.
Each year, seven exemplary projects in architecture, planning, landscape
architecture, and urban design are named winners of the Great Places
Awards in the categories of Place Research, Place Planning, Place Design
and a Published Book.
This event is jointly sponsored by the College of Fine and Applied Arts,
the School of Architecture, the Department of Landscape Architecture,
the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and the Lorado Taft
Lectureship on Art.
Information about the Jurors:
Ralph E. Johnson
received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of
Illinois and his Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University.
He began his career at Stanley Tigerman’s office and then joined Perkins
& Will in 1976, where he currently serves as its national design
director and a member of its board of directors. Johnson's work has been
a hallmark of Perkins+Will's practice for nearly 30 years. His
innovative design and professional achievements have received national
and international acclaim. In the past decade alone, his buildings have
been celebrated with over 30 design awards, including five national
Honor Awards and more than two dozen regional Honor Awards from the
American Institute of Architects (AIA). Johnson’s works were published
by Rizzoli, l'Arcaedizioni and Images Publishing in a monograph honoring
Perkins+Will's selection as the 1999 AIA "Firm of the Year." Johnson’s
projects are well known to Chicago residents and include the O’Hare
International Terminal, the Boeing Building, the Skybridge Condominium
Tower, a mid-rise residential project at 516 Wells, the Orland Park
Civic Center, Crate & Barrel headquarters in Oak Brook, and the Peggy
Notebaert Nature Museum. In addition to his Chicago projects, Johnson
has a portfolio of national and international work that includes the new
Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles; a new university campus in Angola,
Africa; and a middle school in Columbus, Indiana, commissioned by the
Cummins Foundation.
Laura J. Lawson
received both her Masters of Landscape Architecture and Ph.D. in
Environmental Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. She
is currently an Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at the
University of Illinois and Director of the East St. Louis Action
Research Project (ESLARP). Her research focuses on community activism in
open space planning and design. Lawson’s ongoing study of community
gardening and greening includes both historical research and
contemporary case studies and analysis. As an active participant in the
University of Illinois' ESLARP program, she works with several resident
organizations on neighborhood planning, park revitalization, and
community gardening projects. This work creates opportunities for
applied design, the study of participatory processes and the impact of
community activism on the everyday landscape. Lawson has authored
several books and numerous articles focused on community gardening and
greening including: City
Bountiful: A History of Urban-Garden Programs in America, 1890s to
Present, University of California Press;
Greening Cities / Growing
Communities: Urban Community Gardens in Seattle. University of
Washington Press; "Parks as Mirrors of Community: Design Discourse and
Community Hope for Parks in East St. Louis" in
Landscape Journal and "The South Central Farm: The Dilemma of
Practicing the Public," in Cultural Geography.
David Miller FAIA
received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Washington State
University and his Master of Architecture degree from the University of
Illinois. He is a founding partner of The Miller/Hull Partnership and is
department chair and Professor of Architecture at the University of
Washington, Seattle. Miller's pragmatic design approach has roots in his
Peace Corps experience in Brazil and the creation of economical,
beautiful structures using indigenous materials. His firm's work makes a
strong contribution to contemporary regionalism in American
architecture. It has won numerous local, regional, and national design
awards and is much illustrated in local, national, and international
publications. Miller/Hull’s notable designs include innovative and
affordable residences in Seattle and vacation homes in the San Juan
Islands. His corporate and public projects including the US Border
Facility at Point Roberts, the Patagonia Distribution Center in Reno,
and three projects on the University of Washington campus. Miller is
often sought as a design critic and juror (Sunset/AIA Western Home
Awards, design awards programs in AIA components including Connecticut,
St. Louis, Arizona, NW Washington, Pittsburgh, SW Washington, Portland
among many others). His recent book
Toward a New Regionalism,
Environmental Architecture in the Pacific Northwest, focuses on
ecologically sound buildings in the Northwest that are shaped by the
unique conditions of the region and the direct connection between
sustainable design and the critical issues of regionalism.
Lynda H. Schneekloth
received her BA in English and MS in Landscape Architecture from the
University of Wisconsin. She is currently a Professor of Architecture at
the State University of New York, Buffalo and Co-director of the Costa
Rican study abroad program, "Sustainable Futures”.
Schneekloth’s scholarly research is focused on the idea of
placemaking, that is, how people transform the world, including natural
processes and built form. Her recently funded projects include a public
conversation on the historic Buffalo Grain Elevators and the development
of an interpretation center at Love Canal, work with watershed
organizations on the Buffalo and Niagara Rivers, and participation in
the development of a bi-national heritage corridor along the Niagara
River. Schneekloth is author of Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building Communities with R.
Shibley; Ordering Spaces: Types in
Architecture and Design with K. Franck, and
Changing Places: ReMaking
Institutional Buildings with M. Feuerstein and B. Campagna; numerous
articles in scholarly and professional journals, two of which received
national awards for best article, "The Frontier is our Home" in
Journal of Architectural Education
and "Unredeemably Utopian: Architecture and the Making of Place" in
Utopian Studies.
Kathleen L. Wolf
received both her Master of Landscape Architecture and PhD in Landscape
Architecture from The University of Michigan. She currently holds the
position of Research Scientist in Ecosystem Sciences and Urban
Horticulture in the College of Forest Resources at the University of
Washington, Seattle. Her research on the human dimensions of open space,
urban forestry and natural systems includes: public preferences and
perceptions regarding urban public landscapes; costs, benefits and
perceptions of urban forestry in retail and commercial districts; and
the integration of urban nature and transportation systems. Wolf has
authored nearly three-dozen scholarly articles including: “Strip Malls,
City Trees, and Community Values” in
Arboriculture & Urban Forestry;
“Metro Nature Services: Functions, Benefits and Values” in
Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century;
“Assessing Public Response to the Freeway Roadside: Urban Forestry and
Context Sensitive Solutions” in
Journal of the Transportation Research Board; and “Trees In the
Small City Retail Business District: Comparing Resident and Visitor
Perceptions,” in Journal of
Forestry. In addition, Wolf regularly contributes to numerous state
and national government and professional forestry publications.
