The main attraction to Workshop is the outstanding professional speakers that present. Each year we book a renowned keynote speaker. Other speakers are typically Landscape Architect professionals that are currently practicing and present on a variety of topics. In addition to LA speakers, we often have speakers from other professions that we will interact with in our professional lives.
James Burnett FASLA - 2011
Jim Burnett founded the Office of James Burnett in 1989 and has dedicated his career to creating meaningful spaces that challenge the conventional boundaries of landscape architecture. To date, Jim has garnered over fifty state and national design awards for projects consistently cited for innovative design solutions.
Jim has taken a multi-disciplinary approach to his practice, often working closely with design teams of well-known architects, planners, artists, and other professionals, including doctors, scientists, and a diverse range of clients. In his work, ranging from corporate and educational campuses, park planning, resorts, healthcare campuses, and visionary projects, there has been a particularly strong focus on designing landscapes that promote healthy living.
Grant Jones FALSA - 2010
Grant Jones - landscape architect, poet, and co-founder of Jones & Jones — has practiced and preached ecological design for more than 30 years. He and his Jones and Jones colleagues’ pioneering methodologies in landscape aesthetics, river planning, habitat design, scenic highway design and conservation planning, including the development of new methodologies in GIS modeling, have set the standard for environmentally responsive design and have brought the firm a stream of awards. Grant’s landscape poetry is recognized as a fundamental to his design approach and integral to his research and scholarship in ecological design and landscape conservation planning.
David Yocca - 2009
RLA, ASLA, AICP, LEED AP is a registered landscape architect and certified planner motivated principally by the desire to cultivate healthy, sustainable places that inspire the people they serve. With an intimate knowledge of green site design and land development issues, Mr. Yocca’s interests center on culturally sustainable patterns of settlement that integrate human-scaled, walkable neighborhoods with locally appropriate, ecologically-based water landscapes. He is encouraged by the potential for both building new and retrofitting existing places with the quality and characteristics that connect people with their community as a way to sustain it for generations that follow.
Peter Walker - 2008
Peter Walker has exerted a significant influence on the field of landscape architecture over a five-decade career, crystallizing what is known as the American corporate multidisciplinary office. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Walker has taught, lectured, written, and served as an advisor to numerous public agencies, while exerting personal control over the design of his own projects. With a dedicated concern for urban and environmental issues, his designs shape the landscape in a variety of geographic and cultural contexts, from the United States to Japan, China, Australia, and Europe. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and of the Institute for Urban Design and has been granted the Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects, Harvard’s Centennial Medal, the University of Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson Medal, the ASLA Medal, and the IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Gold Medal.