SUN-C10: California Planting Design: A Focus on Here and Now

Sunday, November 13, 2022

3:45pm – 5:00pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 215-216

1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, ISA, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Nancy Roche, Affiliate ASLA

Principal/ Landscape Designer
Roche + Roche Landscape Architecture
Sonoma, California

Speaker(s)

David E. LeRoy, Affil. ASLA

Partner
Ground Studio
Santa Cruz, California
Collin H. Jones, ASLA, LEED AP

Principal
Collin Jones Studio
Emeryville, California

California's benign climate presents unique opportunities for the built landscape. With an expanding fire season and omnipresent drought concerns, how do we design resilient landscapes while meeting project goals? In this session, we examine how Californian constraints push us to approach projects with a greater sense of creativity and purpose.

Learning Outcomes:

Articulate how California's climate and geography present unique opportunities and constraints in the built landscape.
Understand environmental challenges facing California, including regulatory considerations, and how landscape architecture and planting design in particular is evolving.
Share strategies for guiding client expectations regarding the built landscape in California.
Through specific project examples, understand the contextual character of California landscapes, including how and why they differ from other temperate locations, and how they become more distinct in the future.