SUN-B05 - Shaping a Latin American Landscape Architectural Profession and Education

Sunday, November 21, 2021

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 103

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/non-HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, ASLA

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
University of Arkansas Fayetteville
Fayetteville, Arkansas

Speaker(s)

Diana Wiesner

Director
Diana Wiesner Arquitectura y Paisaje SAS
Bogota, Distrito Capital de Bogota
Ricardo da Cruz e Sousa

Landscape architect & urbanist, MLA, PhD c.
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/non-HSW
Landscape Architecture is an emerging profession in Latin America. The current socio-ecological crises have increased interest in the profession and universities are not staying behind. This session will discuss how three practitioner-academics, building from their experiences in Latin America, convened to craft an Academic Landscape Architecture program for The Americas.

Learning Outcomes:

Learn about how the profession of Landscape Architecture is emerging in Latin America, through different modes of practice and case study projects in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Learn about the complexity to synthesize an emerging profession into an innovative and continent-specific academic program.
Understand how the urban Latin American social and environmental complexity requires commitment and new leaderships coming from professionals and academics.
Learn about how the emerging profession of Landscape Architecture in Latin America may inform the larger global profession for the challenges of the XXI century.