Lynden B. Miller is a public garden designer in New York City and director of The Conservatory Garden in Central Park, which she rescued and restored beginning in 1982. Her work includes gardens for The Central Park Zoo, Bryant Park, The New York Botanical Garden, Madison Square Park and Wagner Park in Battery Park City as well as many smaller projects in all five boroughs and beyond, including waterfront gardens in Red Hook, Brooklyn, improvements to Union Square Park and the 97th Street Park Avenue Mall, renovation of the “Gateway to Harlem” Broadway Mall at 135th Street, design of the Entry Garden for Segment 5 of Hudson River Park, and design consultation for the garden at The Museum of Modern Art, Loeb Plaza for Hunter College and the front of the 67th Street Armory. She has designed and enhanced the campus landscapes at Columbia University, Princeton University, and Stony Brook University, where she continues to work on new projects, and is currently in the process of designing a garden for the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC.

For more information regarding Lynden B. Miller please visit her website at www.publicgardendesign.com/home.htm

Other Confirmed Speakers include:

Jonathan Mueller, FASLA - ASLA President-Elect                                                                  Landmark/Architects West, Inc. Cour d' Alene, ID

Jonathan Mueller, FASLA, became an ASLA member in 1981.  A private practitioner, his professional frame of reference includes experience with design-construct, multi-disciplinary, and independent landscape architecture firms as both an employee and stockholder.  He is currently a senior landscape architect with Landmark, a landscape architectural studio of Architects West in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, that he helped establish in 1984.

Since the early Landmark years, Mueller has pursued the role of a volunteer advocate for the profession, which has provided opportunities for influence at a local, state, and national level.  For him, these engagements confirmed the power of the collective impact resulting from the service and advocacy actions of individual landscape architects. Mueller believes the leader has to be the servant in order to reach the hearts and minds of the policy makers who can benefit the profession.  He emphasizes that we must tell our story – a lesson learned while working with ASLA past president Theodore J. Wirth’s organization – and that service opportunities provide the platform for such actions.

To that end, he has been involved with numerous volunteer efforts in 24 years and currently serves on his city Parks Foundation and Design Review Commission.  Mueller served two terms on the Idaho State Board of Landscape Architects and was CLARB representative for the board for four years.  He is a past president and trustee of the Idaho-Montana Chapter, during which he played an active part in the successful effort to upgrade Idaho’s licensing law.  His national committee service includes the Honors and Awards Advisory Committee, Professional Practice Committee, and serving as chair for both the Policy Committee and Finance and Investments Committee.  He served as ASLA vice president for government affairs in 2008-2009.

Mueller’s work as a landscape architect has produced eight Merit and two Honor awards from the Idaho-Montana Chapter.  He has received citations and recognitions from his chapter and state and local government for his extensive volunteer service.  Mueller is an LLA in six states and is CLARB certified.  He received a BLA from the University of Idaho in 1978, where he has also served as part of the adjunct faculty for the LA program.

Ed Blake                                                                                                                                                            A Legacy in Landscape Architecture

Edward L. Blake, Jr., was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1947 and grew up in Mississippi.  He is a landscape architect and founding principal of The Landscape Studio of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  Mr. Blake's professional career has spanned three-plus decades.  He has contributed to expanding and re-defining boundaries within the private, academic, and non-profit arenas of landscape architecture.

Work produced by Mr. Blake has received local, regional, national and international recognition.  His designs for Hattiesburg, Mississippi's Lake Terrace Convention Center and The Crosby Arboretum at Picayune, Mississippi, received the Centennial Medallion Award commemorating the 100th anniversary of the American Society of Landscape Architects.  Mr. Blake is the recipient of ASLA's Alfred B. LaGasse Medal for his notable contributions to the management of natural resources and public lands.  His work at The Crosby Arboretum received an Honor Award by the American Society of Landscape Architects and is the first national award of excellence received of built work in Mississippi.  The Crosby Arboretum is the recipient of the Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts.

Further afield, Mr. Blake's work has been published in World of Environmental Design: Civil Engineering: Nature Conservation and Land Reclamation, 100 Years of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Ecological Planning and Design, Weathering and Durability in Landscape Architecture, Leading Residential Landscape Professionals, My Mississippi and Guides to Careers in Design:  Becoming a Landscape Architect .  Exhibits of his work include Musings: Sketchbooks, Eco-Revelatory Design: Nature Constructed/Nature Revealed and 12X12 + 24.

Ed Blake has been a visiting design critic at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, Auburn University, University of Arkansas and their Mexico Summer Urban Studio, Louisiana State University, Iowa State University, Mississippi State University, Tulane University and the European Landscape Education Exchange at Pontlevoy, France.  He frequently lectures throughout the United States.  Travels to study landscapes and gardens have taken Mr. Blake to all states but Alaska and to Austria, Brazil, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Mr. Blake has served as national and state design juror and continues serving as an academic program accreditation evaluator for the American Society of Landscape Architects.  In addition, he has served university presses in reviewing books about humans shaping the land. 

His practice, The Landscape Studio, works primarily in the southeastern and mid-western United States.  The Studio's work is concerned with revealing through design the natural and cultural evolution of place and our evolving perception of the human place in Nature.  The Studio employs a site-specific understanding of the materiality of phenomena as a means towards making a landscape's architecture placed in the arts, sciences and humanities.

Ed Blake received his undergraduate degree from Mississippi State University.  His was the third class to receive a degree in landscape architecture.  In 1990, Ed was one of three graduates recognized for personal achievement and contributions to landscape architecture during the program's 25th Year Anniversary Celebration. He was again recognized in 2008 as most outstanding alumnus.

Jeffrey Carbo, FASLA
Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center

Jeffrey Carbo, FASLA is a 1985 graduate of the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at LSU.  He founded Jeffrey Carbo Landscape Architects in 1994, and currently serves as principal of the thirteen-person firm.  Jeff is a licensed landscape architect and is CLARB certified in seven states.

Jeff is an active member in the American Society of Landscape Architects and served as president of the Louisiana Chapter in 2000.  He was elected to the ASLA Council of Fellows in 2005, and was selected as LSU’s College of Art and Design Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient in 2007.  Jeff is a member of the LSU College of Design Dean’s Circle and serves on the School of Landscape Architecture’s Alumni Advisory Council. Jeff is currently serving on the Board of Directors of Hilltop Arboretum in Baton Rouge, and is a member of the Forever LSU Campaign Cabinet.

The firm’s work has been featured in numerous publications including Landscape Architecture, House and Garden, Better Homes and Gardens, Garden Design, Southern Living and Southern Accents and has received over 25 design awards on the state and national level.  The firm is currently working on commissions throughout Louisiana and the southeast United States.

Marc Foster
Ecology

Former Mayor Brent Warr, Mayor Connie Moran, Jeff Bounds and Lisa Bradley
Panel Discussion

Ken Groves
Smart Code in Montgomery, AL

Ken Groves is the Director of Planning and Development for the City of Montgomery, Alabama where he is responsible for direction of long range planning, transportation planning, community development, land use regulation, urban forestry, weed and seed and geographic information systems.  Since he returned to his hometown of Montgomery in 2001, he led the transformation of the planning department into the state’s leader in strategic development planning, downtown revitalization, and innovative zoning techniques.  

Ken joined the City in August 2001 following a four-year term as manager of the Bay St. Louis, MS office of Coastal Environments, Inc.  His work in Mississippi involved direction of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Comprehensive Resource Management Planning Process (CRMP) for the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MSDMR).  The CRMP project is a participant driven planning process that involves representatives of the public, federal, state, and local agencies, county and city governments (17 jurisdictions), economic development interest and environmental groups.  The mission of the CRMP is to develop a plan to accommodate growth and development on a sustainable basis and protect the natural resources on which the economy depends.  Post Katrina, Ken volunteered to assist the Mississippi Governor’s Commission on Coastal recovery.  In that effort he worked with former colleagues and clients to speed community recovery and healing.

Ken Groves has 27 years of experience at the local, state, regional, metropolitan, community, and private levels with substantial work in the areas of comprehensive planning, parks and recreation planning, environmental planning, land use regulation, urban revitalization, economic development and housing for special needs populations.  As a principal in Cosby/Groves Architecture and City Planning, Ken has had a long-term involvement in the City of Birmingham, Alabama’s efforts to revitalize its urban corridors and update its Comprehensive Plan.  Ken is recognized as an expert in zoning and land use regulation by the State and Federal courts in Alabama.  He is a regular guest lecturer in planning and planning law in the Planning program at Auburn University and in the Jones School of Law at Faulkner University in Montgomery.

David Fulgham
Florence Gardens Tour

Mike Jackson
Liability Lessons for Landscape Architects

Mike Jackson is a graduate of Mississippi State University and is also a U.S. Army helicopter instructor pilot as well as a fix wing pilot with over 300 combat flight hours in Afghanistan.

Mike is the Vice President and Risk Manger in Alabama for one of the largest professional liability insurance agencies in the Southeast, Crow Friedman Group.  He has been serving as a Risk Manger for over 15 years and has over two hundred clients, most of which are Architects and Engineers. 

Mike’s has graduated from numerous professional liability courses and continues to reinforce his knowledge by attending professional liability conferences.  His strong affiliation with the Professional Liability Agents Network (PLAN) has enabled him to not only gain valuable knowledge through his peers, but also provide him with the title as the only agency to represent all creditable carriers in Alabama.  

Mike conducts over thirty seminars for design professionals each year.  He is often asked to conduct local chapter and statewide seminars on behalf of professional organizations like AIA (Architects Institute) and ACEC (Consulting Engineers).  He has been instrumental in reviewing and revising, state and local municipal contracts.  He also reviews over a hundred contracts per year, mostly for clients.

Mike lives in Hoover, Alabama with his wife and their three kids.

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