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Seattle
2003 Speakers and Panelists
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Richard
Haag |
FASLA
Prinicpal, Richard Haag Associates, Inc.
Seattle, WA. |
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Haag's creativity and sensitivity to the natural environment and
adaptive re-use of existing structures and facilities has been
expressed in the more than 500 built projects on which he has
worked. He is skilled in collaborative design, innovative thinking,
community involvement and project management. Mr. Haag was educated
at University of Illinois, University of California at Berkeley
(B.L.A.), and Harvard University Graduate School of Design (M.L.A.),
awarded a Fulbright in Japan for two years and was Resident at
the American Academy in Rome. Harvard University Graduate School
of Design honored Mr. Haag with a symposium and exhibition entitled
Exploring the Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag (Spring 1996),
followed with the publication of the book, Richard Haag: Bloedel
Reserve and Gas Works Park. Mr. Haag is the only person to twice
receive the American Society of Landscape Architects Presidents
Award for Design Excellence: Gas Works Park, Seattle, WA and The
Sequence of Gardens at Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, WA.
Founder and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Landscape
Architecture at the University of Washington, Mr. Haag continues
to teach and lectures internationally. |
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Becca Hanson
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FASLA
Principal, The Portico Group
Seattle, WA.
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As
a Landscape Architect, Becca has developed widely recognized expertise
in the planning and design of powerful places that convey stories
linking us to our place the world. Her focus on integrating a
broad understanding of natural ecosystem dynamics and sustainable
approaches with social psychology, policy planning, learning theory,
horticulture and aesthetics has enabled her to pursue commissions
that seek to celebrate the dynamic interactions between infrastructure,
people, place and perception that create the landscape of human
experience.
In addition, Becca brings a well-developed set of communication,
facilitation and consensus-building skills to each project that
she undertakes, seeking to achieve a balance to potentially divergent
program requirements, design components and client groups. These
skills have been invaluable in facilitating productive discussion,
decision-making and action, as well as in building a shared understanding
about the special opportunities present within each group of people
and in each potential project. |
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Peter
Harnik |
Director
Green Cities Program, Trust for Public Lands Washington
D.C. |
Peter
Harnik is director of the Green Cities Program of the Trust for
Public Land (TPL). In 2000 he authored Inside City Parks, a book
about the park and recreation systems of the 25 largest cities
in the U.S., which was co-published by TPL and the Urban Land
Institute. He also co-authored an earlier TPL/ULI book, Urban
Parks and Open Space (1997). Harnik's most recent research resulted
in the publication The Excellent City Park System: What Makes
it Great and How to Get There, slated for publication this Spring.
Previous to joining TPL, Harnik co-founded and served as vice-president
of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. A resident of Arlington, Va.,
he also served six terms as president of the Washington Area Bicyclist
Association in Washington, D.C. In 1987 Harnik was named one of
the "Global 500" by the Friends of the United Nations
Environmental Programme.
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Donald
Harris
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Acquisitions
Manager for Pro-Parks
Seattle Parks and Recreation
NAOP
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Mr. Harris
is the Property and Acquisitions Services Manager for the Seattle
Department of Parks and Recreation, where he is responsible for
both property management issues for the department's 6000 acres
of parks and a $40 million new park and open space acquisition
program funded by a $200 million parks levy. From 1993-2000 he
directed the overall planning and successful implementation of
a $100 million open space acquisition program for Seattle (the
largest land acquisition program in the city's history), which
has preserved over 600 acres of urban green spaces - much of it
consistent with the 1903 Olmsted vision for Seattle's park system.
Previously, he had responsibility for coordinating the department's
overall environmental management initiative dealing with both
natural resource management and hazardous material management.
From 1977-1993 he was the Director of Development for Parks and
Recreation responsible for all of the department's planning, park
design and construction.
Donald has twice been the co-chair of the National Association
for Olmsted Parks and is currently a board member. He was instrumental
in the formation of the Friends of Seattle's Olmsted Parks, and
is an ex-officio member of that organization's Executive Board.
He is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound and the University
of Washington with a Masters Degree in Public Administration,
and is an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape
Architects. Donald is married and has two daughters.
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Faye
Harwell |
Director,
Rhodeside & Harwell, Incorporated
Alexandria. VA.
Board of Trustees, NAOP |
Ms.
Harwell is a Director and co-founder
of Rhodeside & Harwell, Incorporated, Landscape Architects
in Alexandria, Virginia. She has over 25 years of experience with
the design of award-winning contemporary and historic preservation
landscape architectural projects. Her work throughout the United
States and internationally ranges in scale from residential gardens
to parks, institutions, embassies, museums and arboreta. She has
special expertise in historic preservation and ecological design
and leads multi-disciplinary teams through all phases of a project:
site evaluation, master planning, landscape architectural design,
construction documentation, and construction supervision.
Ms. Harwell has lectured and taught extensively at The University
of Pennsylvania, the University of Florida, the University of
Virginia, VPISU, and others. With work published widely including
lead articles in Landscape Architecture Magazine, Contemporary
Stone Magazine, The Landscape Architect and Specifier News, her
recently completed George Mason National Memorial, in Washington,
D.C. was featured in the May, 13, 2002 issue of People Magazine.
Ms. Harwell has won over 15 awards, including a National American
Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award for the restoration
of the Janelia Farm Conservation Easement in Northern Virginia,
and a Merit award from the Potomac Chapter American Society of
Landscape Architects for her work on Patterson Park, an historic
Olmsted park in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to many significant
historic landscape restorations, such as Steamtown National Historic
Site, Scranton, PA, Patterson Park Phase I, in Baltimore, MD,
Her work includes numerous Olmsted parks , among them Cadwalader
Park, Trenton, NJ; the National Zoo, Washington DC; the Niagara
reservation Master Plan, Niagara Falls, NY; and, most recently,
the Cultural Landscape Report and rehabilitation design for Branch
Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey. Ms. Harwell is immediate past
co-chair of the National Association for Olmsted Parks. |
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Roger Hoesterey
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Vice President
and Northwest Regional Director
Trust for Public Land
Seattle, WA.
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President, and Northwest Regional Director, Roger Hoesterey provides
leadership to the Trust for Public Land's (TPL) conservation programs
in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Alaska. Founded
in 1972, the Trust for Public Land is the only national nonprofit
organization working exclusively to conserve land for people,
from creating parks to protecting wilderness areas. Nationwide,
TPL has helped protect more than 1.5 million acres of land in
its 30-year history.
Prior to joining TPL in 2000, Hoesterey
worked for the City of Bellevue Parks and Community Services
Department for 19 years, serving as Deputy Director for the
last four. He directed six divisions including Planning and
Construction, Natural Resources and Enterprise. Additionally,
he was responsible for property acquisitions; park design and
construction; and resource management for the city's 1700-acre
park system. He developed the department's first Recreation
Plan; acquired key properties; secured more than $7 million
in grants and donations; and completed park master plans for
numerous sites. During his tenure at the City of Bellevue, Hoesterey
received numerous honors for his work, including awards from
the National Recreation and Parks Association; National League
of Cities; Washington Recreational Professional Association;
American Society of Landscape Architects; and the Planning Association
of Washington.
Hoesterey currently serves on the
Board of Directors for the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
and the Icicle Fund, and is a member of the Advisory Council
of the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources.
He was recently appointed to the Metropolitan Parks Task Force
by the King County Executive, and previously served as a member
of the Board of Trustees for the Municipal Employee's Benefit
Trust, overseeing investment portfolios for seven member cities
totaling $250 million in assets. He also served as the Founding
Member and Chair of the Washington State Community Forestry
Council.
Hoesterey is a graduate of the
University of Washington's College of Forest Resources, and
completed the University's Public Executive Program at the Cascade
Center for Public Service. In his early career, he worked as
an Interpretive Ranger in the North Cascades National Park.
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Jane
Holtz Kay |
Author
Architecture and Planning Critic, The Nation |
Jane
Holtz Kay is an author, journalist and architecture critic for
The Nation. Her books include Asphalt Nation: How the
Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back,
Preserving New England and Lost Boston. She is a member
of the Society of Environmental Journalists and writes frequently
for Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning, The Boston
Globe, The New York Times, Preservation, Sierra and other
urban and environmental magazines. She is currently writing
Last Chance Landscape.
Kay has lectured across the country on urban and environmental
issues surrounding land use, transportation, planning and preservation.
A frequent speaker, Kay has addressed national audiences, universities,
and urban and conservation organizations, including, the Sierra
Club, the Kennedy Library, the Conservation Law Foundation, Harvard
Graduate School of Design, plus media including NPR's "Living
on Earth," C-Span's "Booknotes" and the Peter Jennings
show. |
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Nancy
Keith
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Executive Director,
Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, Seattle, WA.
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