SUN-A03 - SPREADING THE GOSPEL: International Landscape Architects Returning Home to Practice

Sunday, November 21, 2021

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 103

Compliments of:

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

Lead Speaker(s)

Michael Grove, FASLA

Chair of Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Ecology
SASAKI
Carlisle, Massachusetts

Speaker(s)

Kotchakorn Voraakhom, ASLA

Founder and CEO
LANDPROCESS and Porous City Network
Bangkok, Krung Thep
Thomas Doxiadis, International ASLA

Thomas Doxiadis Architect - Landscape Architect
doxiadis+ Architects Landscape Architects
Athens, Attiki

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

As landscape architecture gains global prominence, talented professionals are leaving the US and returning home. Driven by a passion to tackle ubiquitous issues including climate change, unchecked urbanization, and social justice, these international pioneers are disrupting the status quo and demonstrating that we must think and practice beyond national boundaries.

Learning Outcomes:

Explore the opportunities and challenges of starting a new practice overseas.
Understand how landscape architects are disrupting the status quo in their home countries that have a limited understanding of the scope of our profession.
Learn about the award-winning and influential work of landscape architects working abroad and their unique ecological, social, cultural, and geographic contexts.
Engage with professionals that have insights and perspectives about how landscape architects can have a powerful voice in responding complex global issues like climate change and urbanization.