Outdoor Spaces 2023

WELCOME TO OUTDOOR SPACES!

Hello,

Thank you for attending our third annual Outdoor Spaces Virtual event! The Architect’s Newspaper has been reporting on the landscape profession since our humble beginnings in 2003. We recognize the importance of landscape and the environment as critical pieces of our urban fabric. Many of the most exciting built projects today are new parks, waterways, and outdoor public spaces that have taken shape across the globe and you are in for a treat today. Along with our day-to-day reporting on landscape topics, we hope you follow our weekly newsletter, Outdoor Spaces, our landscape-focused CE STRONG workshops, and our annual Landscape print issue. We will continue to expand our coverage of the landscape architecture profession through events and workshops just like this. There will be a survey sent to all participants following the conference—we would love to hear your feedback to help inform us for the next Outdoor Spaces.

All the best, Diana Darling

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

DIANA DARLING

Conference Director, Cofounder, CEO, The Architect’s Newspaper

DIONNE DARLING VP of Brand Partnerships, The Architect’s Newspaper

MARTY WOOD Program Director, The Architect’s Newspaper

CHRIS WALTON Assistant Editor, The Architect’s Newspaper

6 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW

TIMES IN CT

9:45 AM VIRTUAL DOORS OPEN

10:00 AM WELCOME

10:10 AM SPOTLIGHT | Streetscapes for Wellness

Presenter: Jenna E. Miller | NYC Public Design Commission

10:30 AM KEYNOTE | Mette Skjold: Natured-based Design at SLA

Presenters:

Mette Skjold | SLA

Timothy Schuler | Landscape Architecture Magazine

11:30 AM NETWORKING BREAK

11:45 AM SPOTLIGHT | Hudson Square: A Pedestrian Scale Masterplan

Presenters:

Signe Nielsen | MNLA

Timothy Schuler | Landscape Architecture Magazine

12:15 PM NETWORKING BREAK

12:30 PM PANEL | Manufacturer-Designer Collaboration: Strategies for Integrated Design Processes

Presenters:

Tony Kostreski | Vectorworks Jana Tyrer | mmcité street furniture

Mark Fusco | Bison IP Marty Wood | The Architect’s Newspaper

1:30 PM NETWORKING BREAK

1:45 PM SPOTLIGHT | Reinvisioning Dealey Plaza / Martyr’s Park

Presenters:

Chris Reed | STOSS

Mark Lamster | Dallas Morning News

Marty Wood | The Architect’s Newspaper

2:15 PM SPOTLIGHT | Vision Through Process: Creating a New Waterfront Plan for Middletown, Connecticut

Presenters:

Mike Aziz | Cooper Robertson

Alexandra Sutherland-Brown | Karp Strategies

Marek Kozikowski | City of Middletown

2:45 PM NETWORKING BREAK

3:00 PM WORKSHOP | Biophilic Design & Rooftop Deck Systems: A Natural Connection

Presenter: Mark Fusco | Bison IP

4:00 PM WORKSHOP | Public Furniture & Sustainable Materials

Presenter: Albert Harris | mmcité street furniture

SPEAKERS

Keynote Speaker

METTE SKJOLD Chief Executive Officer / SLA

Ms. Skjold is CEO of the Danish nature-based design studio SLA. As the head of SLA, Mette Skjold is responsible for designing cities, public spaces, and nature on all scales: From city-wide masterplans to neighborhood pocket parks. From national biodiversity strategies to local citizens’ engagement processes. Ms. Skjold graduated from Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark in 2001. She went on to become head of urban planning at Henning Larsen Architects, before founding Markstudio in 2008. In 2010 Ms. Skjold joined SLA, and in 2021 she became a member of the board of directors at The Danish Architecture Center (DAC).

AZIZ Partner / Cooper Robertson

Mike Aziz, AIA, LEED AP, is a partner at Cooper Robertson and a leader of the firm’s urban design and campus planning practice. With more than 15 years of experience working across the United States and internationally, his portfolio includes large-scale waterfront master plans in San Francisco, New York, and New Jersey, along with planning projects for the University of Maryland, the George Washington University, and the MunsonWilliams-Proctor Arts Institute.

ALEXANDRA SUTHERLAND-BROWN Principal / Karp Strategies

As Principal at Karp Strategies, a NYC-based urban planning consultancy, Ali is a trusted adviser to City agencies and private firms including NYCEDC, NYCHA, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ), Two Trees Management, the SoHo Broadway Initiative (SBI) and Brooklyn Public Library. Since joining Karp Strategies as the firm’s first full-time employee in 2016, Ali has played a key role in the firm’s growth from a one-woman startup to one of the leading WBE-certified community-economic development advisory firms in the region.

MAREK KOZIKOWSKI Director of Land Use / City of Middletown

Marek Kozikowski, AICP, MPA is the Director of Land Use for the City of Middletown, Connecticut with 18 years professional experience working in municipal and regional planning and development. Marek oversees the administration of land use policies and regulations in the areas of planning, zoning, wetlands, open space, and agriculture for the City of Middletown.

TONY KOSTRESKI

Senior

Landscape

Product Specialist / Vectorworks

Tony Kostreski, PLA is a landscape technology enthusiast bringing municipal, institutional, mixed-use, and high-end residential site design proficiency to his role as senior landscape product specialist at Vectorworks, Inc. Kostreski has consulted dozens of design-build and landscape architecture firms to help increase their efficiency by implementing best practice workflows in design, modeling, documentation, GIS, and BIM for landscape. Kostreski has also provided universities with customized workshops showcasing essential workflows students can take into the workforce.

MIKE

MARK LAMSTER

Architecture Critic / Dallas Morning News

Mark Lamster is the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News and a lecturer and Loeb fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His biography of the late architect Philip Johnson, The Man in the Glass House (Little Brown, 2018), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.

JENNA E. MILLER

Deputy Director, Urban Design and Policy / NYC Public Design Commission

Jenna is a transdisciplinary designer focused on advancing equity in the public realm, and as a LEED Accredited Professional in Building Design and Construction, she has designed and managed a breadth of public and private design/build and architectural projects in the U.S. and abroad. Jenna is Co-Founder of New York City-based design firm RUEd’ ARCH, as well as Deputy Director of Urban Design & Policy at the NYC Public Design Commission (PDC), where she authored Designing New York: Streetscapes for Wellness and oversees interagency public realm design and policy initiatives.

SIGNE NIELSEN

Founding Principal / MNLA

Signe Nielsen is a founding principal of MNLA and has been practicing as a landscape architect and urban designer in New York since 1978. Her body of work has renewed the environmental integrity and transformed the quality of spaces for those who live, work, and play in the urban realm. A fellow of the ASLA, she is the recipient of more than 100 national and local design awards for public open space projects and has been published extensively. Signe is a professor of urban design and landscape architecture at the Pratt Institute in both the graduate and undergraduate schools of architecture, and is the former president of the Public Design Commission of the City of New York. Born in Paris, Signe received a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Urban Planning from Smith College, a Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Architecture from City College of New York, and a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from Pratt Institute.

SPEAKERS

CHRIS REED

Founding Director / STOSS

Chris Reed is Founding Director of STOSS, where he leads the design and content of each project. A designer, researcher, strategist, teacher, and advisor, Chris is recognized internationally as a leading voice in the transformation of landscapes and cities and was a recipient of the 2012 CooperHewitt National Design Award in Landscape Architecture. While running STOSS and its projects, Chris is also a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His commitment to teaching is not only a way to develop the next generation of landscape architects, but also keeps STOSS on a constant quest for new ways of seeing, thinking, and doing, which has helped put the firm at the forefront of the profession.

TIMOTHY SCHULER

Contributing Editor / Landscape Architecture Magazine

Timothy A. Schuler is an award-winning journalist and magazine writer whose work focuses on the intersection of the built and natural environments. An editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine since 2015, his writing has appeared in Metropolis, Bloomberg CityLab, The Architect’s Newspaper, Places Journal, Curbed, and FLUX Hawai’i, among other outlets. His essay, “The Middle of Everywhere,” was included on a list of the most notable science and nature writing in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020.

JANA TYRER

Managing Director / mmcité street furniture

With over 14 years of experience, Jana is a street furniture consultant and Managing Director of mmcité in the USA and UK. She believes that street furniture is not just a functional necessity but an opportunity to create vibrant and successful living spaces. With a passion for creating public realms that are diverse, inclusive, and valuable. Her technical knowledge and experience help her to advise on sustainability and design suitability, ensuring that every project she works on is optimized for longterm success. She is also an active member of the management team organizing the landscaping conference/event The Street in the Czech Republic.

SPONSORS

PRESENTED BY

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Since 1994, Bison Innovative Products has led the industry in designing and manufacturing versatile pedestals, pavers, and site furnishings that offer the design flexibility to create unique and beautiful rooftop environments. Our independently tested, modular deck system allows rooftop decks to be installed quickly and easily.

Transform your design, modeling and presentation workflows with Vectorworks Landmark, the industry-leading landscape-focused BIM software solution made specifically for landscape architects and designers. With intelligent objects, powerful databases and flexible documentation features, Landmark streamlines integrated 2D and 3D landscapespecific BIM workflows all in one application.

Vectorworks, Inc. is an award-winning design and BIM software provider serving the architecture, landscape architecture and entertainment industries in 85 countries. Built with designers in mind since 1985, Vectorworks software offers you the freedom to follow your imagination wherever it leads you.

INDUSTRY PARTNERS

WORKSHOPS

3:00 - 4:00 PM

BIOPHILIC DESIGN & ROOFTOP DECK SYSTEMS: A NATURAL

Presenter:

4:00 - 5:00 PM

CONNECTION

Mark Fusco | Bison IP (1 AIA HSW)

PUBLIC FURNITURE & SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS

Presenter:

Albert Harris | mmcité street furniture (1 AIA HSW)

MARK FUSCO | Bison IP

Mark Fusco, LEED AP, GRP is the National Sales Manager for Bison Innovative Products and has comprehensive rooftop deck and green roof construction experience. A decade of experience with Bison and a decade of experience at Denver Botanic Gardens have given Mark the expertise to assist architects, developers, designers, and installers with all their project needs. The synthesis of combining rooftop amenity spaces, pools, pergolas, and green roofs has now become the focus of Mark’s work. Mark is most fulfilled when working with the Bison Sales Team, assisting clients with solutions for their projects. His vision and ability to nurture relationships lead to longterm solutions and success. Mark has degrees in Landscape Design, Environmental Science, and Marketing.

ALBERT HARRIS | mmcité street furniture

Albert is Brand Development Manager for mmcité USA & Canada. He has a background in architecture, planning and was practicing Landscape Architect. He has 14+ years in design experience. He has been a bartender, truck driver, commercial photographer, & helped grow 3 successful business along the way. Albert understands the value of wonderful open spaces and the public realm. He is well traveled and has a love for words and artful expressions.

Earn CEUs after today’s program

2 presentations, up to 2 AIA CEU credits

ORBIT

A table design that‘s both simple and stunning! Its clean lines and minimalistic style are guaranteed to make a statement in any space.

Design: David Karásek, Václav Kocián

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