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LALH Advisors Edward L. Blake Jr., ASLA, designed and directs the Crosby Arboretum in Picayune, Mississippi. His practice, The Landscape Studio, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, nurtures the development of landscape architecture in the Gulf South region. His work 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. He is the recipient of ASLA's Alfred B. LaGasse Medal for his notable contributions to the management of natural resources and public lands. George W. Curry, FASLA, is a professor of landscape architecture, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York. Over the past two decades, he has been involved with a variety of preservation activities. He was a member and chair of the Syracuse Landmark Preservation Board for 13 years. He is a general partner in three multiple-use tax act rehabilitation projects in downtown Syracuse. Since 1991 he has been project director of a number of Cultural Landscape Reports under a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service and the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. George has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Michigan State University, as well as a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois. Julius Gyula Fábos, FASLA, is professor emeritus of landscape planning at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Horticulture, Budapest, Hungary. He received a B.S. in plant sciences from Rutgers University in 1961; an M.L.A. from Harvard University in 1964; and a Ph.D. in resource planning and conservation from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1973. In 1985 he was elected as a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and he was honored as an ASLA Medalist in 1997. He was the principal developer of the METLAND System for landscape assessment and planning and has been awarded numerous research grants. He is also the author and editor of more than 120 articles and research bulletins, as well as five books, the latest of which are Land Use Planning (Chapman and Hall, 1985) and Greenways: the Beginning of an International Movement, co-edited with John F. “Jack” Ahern, FASLA (Elsevier, 1996). Keith N. Morgan is a professor of Art History at Boston University, where he has taught since 1980. He has served as the director of Preservation Studies, the director of American and New England Studies and the chairman of the Art History Department. He is a former national Daniel J. Nadenicek, ASLA, is dean of the University of Georgia’s College of Environment and Design and holds the Constance Knowles Draper Chair in Environmental Design. A widely published scholar in the areas of historic preservation, landscape history, and urban design, Nadenicek previously served as chair of the department of planning and landscape architecture at Clemson University and director of Healthy Communities and Historic Preservation at Clemson’s Restoration Institute. He joined the faculty of Clemson in 2002 after working eleven years at Pennsylvania State University, where he was on the landscape architecture faculty and director of the Center for Studies in Landscape History. His publications include more than ninety articles, reviews, reports, and proceedings. He is writing a book about the conservation work of nineteenth- century American businessman Frederick Billings, and he has written several book chapters. Nadenicek also has presented more than seventy-five lectures, papers and panel presentations in North America and Europe and has helped organize several major national and international conferences and symposia. He served as president of the Sigma Lambda Alpha honor society and on the Executive Council of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation. He has been a consultant on historic forests for the National Park Service and helped design the Campus Peace Garden at Penn State. Nadenicek earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history at Mankato State University in Minnesota and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, FASLA, FCSLA, is a landscape architect based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her firm, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects, brings internationally acclaimed expertise in environmentally sensitive planning and design. Born in Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany in 1921, Ms. Oberlander studied at Harvard University with Walter Gropius and settled in Vancouver in the 1950s, where she continues to practice. Founded in 1953, her firm has developed a highly varied expertise: children's playgrounds, beginning with the creative playground at Expo 67 in Montréal; roof gardens and hanging planters, as in the award-winning landscape for the Canadian Chancery in Washington, D.C. (1989); native plant communities like the Taiga Garden at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (1988); and environmental planning and design, such as the C.K. Choi Institute of Asian Research in Vancouver (1995). Witold Rybczynski studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal, where he also taught; he is currently the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. His architectural experience has included designing and building houses as a registered architect, as well as researching low-cost housing for which he received a 1991 Progressive Architecture award. In 1993, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and he has received honorary doctorates from McGill University and the University of Western Ontario. In 2007, he received the Vincent Scully Prize, the Seaside Prize, and the Institute Collaborative Honors from the AIA. He serves on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. He is currently architecture critic for the on-line magazine Slate. He has written twelve books on subjects as varied as the evolution of comfort, a history of the weekend, American urbanism, and the search for the origins of the screwdriver. His biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, A Clearing in the Distance, received the J. Anthony Lukas Prize, a Christopher Award, and a Philadelphia Athenæum literary award. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and The New York Times, and he has written for The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Robert A. M. Stern is a practicing architect, teacher, and writer. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and received the AIA New York Chapter's Medal of Honor in 1984 and the Chapter’s President’s Award in 2001. He received the Athena Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Board of Directors' Honor from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America in 2007. As founder and Senior Partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, he personally directs the design of each of the firm’s projects. David Streatfield, Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, continues to teach in both the BLA and MLA programs. He is on the faculty of the College Certificate Programs in Urban Design and Preservation Planning and Design. His undergraduate degree in architecture is from the Brighton College of Arts and Crafts in England and he has a post-graduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of London, and an MLA from the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Streatfield is a registered architect in the United Kingdom. He has been a Farrand Fellow at University of California, Berkeley and received an individual NEA fellowship. He practices as a consultant historian and has served in this capacity for several years on the preservation of the gardens at Rancho Los Alamitos, Long Beach, California. His scholarship has focused on modern landscape architecture from the eighteenth century forward. He is the author of California Gardens: Creating A New Eden (1994), numerous essays in books, and the introduction to the ASLA Centennial Reprint edition of Garret Eckbo’s Landscape for Living (1950), published by the University of Massachusetts Press in association with LALH. He also is working on a biography of Lockwood deForest, Jr., an important and little known landscape architect whose practice in Santa Barbara from 1920 until 1949 anticipated many aspects of modernism and regionally appropriate plantsmanship. William H. Tishler, FASLA, is Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There his teaching, research, and service have focused on historic preservation, landscape architectural history, vernacular architecture, and preservation issues relating to cultural landscapes of the Upper Midwest. He was elected to the UW Teaching Academy, a group of 100 of the university’s best teachers, and in 1998 he received an Award for Teaching Excellence from the National Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. A graduate of UW-Madison and Harvard University, he is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, has been a Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, an Attingham Fellow in England, and Horace Cleveland Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota. He has lectured widely in America, Europe, and Asia, and has written more than 165 publications, including the award-winning book American Landscape Architecture: Designers and Places, and Midwestern Landscape Architecture, and Wisconsin’s Emerald Treasure: A History of Peninsula State Park. His documentary film Jens Jensen: A Natural History, has won Telly and ASLA awards, and a Crystal Award of Excellence from the National Communicator Awards Program. He also has served as chair of Wisconsin’s Historic Preservation Review Board and is an Advisor Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Suzanne L. Turner, FASLA James van Sweden, FASLA, is a founding principal of Oehme, van Sweden & Associates in Washington, D.C. His multidisciplinary design talents encompass architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, and he has received many prestigious awards. He is the author of distinguished books about gardening and maintains an active schedule of related lectures.
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