The New York Botanical Garden’s 23rd Annual Landscape Design Series kicks off October 4 at 6:30 online with Lisa Switkin speaking on Cohabitation. As a senior principal at James Corner Field Operations, Lisa Switkin
has led many of thefirm’s most complex, bold, and transformative projects and has helped to reshape New York
City’s public realm for the past 20 years. Switkin will discuss new forms of public space that foster environmental
health and resilience, social cohesion and well-being, and connection to place. She will examine “cohabitation” and our evolving human relationship with nature, showcasing projects such as the High Line in Manhattan; Domino Park and River Ring in Brooklyn; the transformative master plan for Freshkills Parkland in Staten Island; and Shelby
Farms Park in Memphis. Lisa Switkin, FA AR, ASL A, is the former President of the Landscape Architecture
Foundation and a 2008 Rome Prize recipient at the American Academy in Rome. She earned a Bachelor in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. She continues to teach design studios and lecture at universities, symposia, and institutions around the world.
Registration fee for each lecture: $15/$18. Register for the series and receive a discount: 222L AN801AO | $39/$49 For more information, click HERE
