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  • Tuesdays, October 3, October 17, and November 14, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Eastern – NYBG 25th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series, Online

    To mark New York Botanical Garden’s 25th year of showcasing innovative and much-honored landscape design professionals and their contributions to this ever-changing field, they have invited three outstanding landscape architects from around the world – Richard Roark, Michelle Delk, and Sierra Bainbridge– to highlight their signature projects, working methods, and design philosophies.

    On October 3, join Richard Roark for Nature Remixed: Reimagining Community and Biodiversity in Cities. With accreditations in LEED and Sustainable SITES, landscape architect Richard Roark is committed to creating ecologically-sound public landscapes. Among the several projects he will present are the American Embassy in London, the expansive 51-mile Los Angeles River Master Plan, Hunts Point in the Bronx, and the Infrastructure Plan for the communities of Caño Martín Peña in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Each of these sites, formerly contaminated or, as Roark says, “cast off” and “left behind,” were renewed, becoming not only visually delighting, but also healthy.

    A partner of the Philadelphia-based firm OLIN, Richard Roark holds a Masters in both Landscape Architecture and Community Planning from Auburn University. He is dedicated to invigorating the public realm, promoting social justice, and creating opportunities for all, and his efforts have been recognized in his field with, among many other honors, the American Society of Landscape Architects’ 2020 Urban Design Award of Excellence for Dilworth Park in Chicago.

    On October 17, Michelle Delk speaks on the Playful Dualities of Public Spaces. For over 20 years, landscape architect Michelle Delk, partner at New York-based firm, Sn∅hetta, has led projects ranging from master plans and brownfield redevelopments to urban parks, streetscapes, and riverfronts. Her work follows her firm’s foundational premise: to create places that enhance the positive relationships between people and their environments.

    From urban canopies to canyons; intimate sculpture gardens to wild west landscapes; rocking seesaws to post-modern histories, Delk will share the intriguing dualities she has explored in recent projects, including the Willamette Falls Riverwalk in Oregon, a transformation of a 22-acre post-industrial site; the innovation collaborative design of the Calgary Public Library Plaza in Alberta, Canada; and the re-imagining of a significant public plaza in midtown Manhattan.

    Michelle Delk is a passionate advocate and designer of the public realm. She encourages innovative approaches to collaboration that are non-hierarchical and trans-disciplinary. Throughout her career, Delk has engaged with a variety of landscape advocacy organizations, curatorial projects, and academic institutions. For her exceptional contributions to the landscape architecture profession and society at large, she has been named a 2023 member of the ASLA Council of Fellows.

    Finally, on November 14, Sierra Bainbridge will present Learning from Rwanda: Designing for One Health. In 2008, the innovative MASS Design Group co-founded by Sierra Bainbridge, began its work in Rwanda, focusing on the Butaro District Hospital. Lessons learned in collaboration with community partners, clinicians, and government officials continuously informed MASS’s one health design approach-which focuses on the interconnection of human, animal, and ecological health and the development of “no harm” design solutions. Bainbridge will share insights into why this design approach is essential to creating a balanced, biodiverse, and mutually supportive future as she presents the Butaro project as well as the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture and The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

    As cross-disciplinary Senior Principal and Managing Director, architect, licensed landscape architect, and educator, Sierra Bainbridge oversees MASS’s landscape architecture department and the design and implementation of MASS’s projects in the United States and Africa. Bainbridge has served as Head of the Architecture Department at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in Rwanda. She lectures widely, including at the Harvard GSD, and served as a Sasaki Distinguished Visiting Critic at the Boston Architectural College. She holds a Masters in both Landscape Architecture and Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

    The series is $85 for NYBG members, $95 for nonmembers. Register at http://nybg.org

  • Wednesday, September 12, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Island Hopping: Landscape Design Lessons from Manhattan to Maine

    Patrick Cullina is an award-winning horticulturist, landscape designer, photographer, lecturer, and planning consultant with nearly twenty-five years of experience in the landscape and green infrastructure fields. The Polly Hill Arboretum, in conjunction with SBS:The Grain Store, are pleased to host Pat for a September 12 lecture at PHA, in which he will discuss design lessons through the lens of his current work. His talk will cover site design and plant and material selection with a particular focus on current projects in New York City, along Boston Harbor, on Long Island, and on a private island off the coast of Maine. Topics will include ecological inspirations from the coastal plain and other maritime environments and the roles they play in design choices.

    Pat has served as founding V. P. of Horticulture and Operations for New York City’s High Line, as Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s V.P. of Horticulture, Operations & Science Research and as Associate Director of the Rutgers University Gardens in affiliation with the school’s department of landscape architecture and the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science. His current practice is dedicated to the creation, development, establishment and maintenance of transformational living landscapes through the innovative integration of plants and management strategies, often in collaboration with some of the world’s leading architects, landscape architects and planners.

    The lecture begins at 5:30, and is $5 for PHA members, $10 for nonmembers. Call 508-696-9426 to register in advance.

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  • Wednesday, July 27, 7:00 pm – Finding the “Bones” of Your Garden

    Every garden starts with a set of anchoring elements. They may be man-made or naturally occurring. Once you identify them, designing the rest of your garden becomes much easier, because you have the ‘bones’ from which the garden will flow. Rita Bond designs beautiful gardens and she’ll show you examples that will give you the perspective to assess your own property.  This Massachusetts Horticultural Society program will be held Wednesday, July 27, at Elm Bank in Wellesley.

    All ‘Wednesday Evening at Elm Bank’ presentations begin at 7 p.m. and end when the last question is answered. The price for Mass Hort members is $10, the cost to non-members is $15. Refreshments are always served. Presentations are held in the Education Building. Reservations are not required.  Garden below designed by Rob Camp Fuoco.

  • Tuesday, March 2, 10:00 am – Chinese Gardens

    Lynette Tsiang, a landscape designer who uses Asian design principles and plants to create New England gardens with echoes of the Far East, will present a slideshow presentation on Tuesday, March 2, beginning at 10 am at South Church, 41 Central Street in Andover, MA, featuring six unique garden areas of China. Attendees will vicariously visit the vernacular landscape of Jingxi (1130), considered a Chinese Venice, and will also examine six classical scholar gardens located in Suzhou. Design techniques unique to Chinese gardens will be discussed.

    A graduate of the Landscape Institute of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Lynette Tsiang is a residential landscape designer who operates Lynette Tsiang Landscape Design in Lexington. She specializes in designing Asian-style, shade, and water gardens, and also designs public and memorial gardens.  She is a member of The New England Landscape Design & the Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design (COGdesign).

    This program is sponsored by the Andover Garden Club, and is free to Andover Garden Club members, and $5 for public admission.  For more information, you may call 978-470-2627, or email bettychapman@verizon.net.  Directions to South Church may be found at www.southchurch.com.