Upcoming Events

AUGUST 28

Edible Landscape Design & Maintenance 

Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM  
Beginning in Jamaica Plain, MA 
$20 Ecological Landscaping Association Member or $25 Non-Member 

Edible landscaping can be accomplished in urban as well as suburban settings and ELA's tour guide, Benjamin Crouch, will demonstrate this as we visit five different sites. The tour is geared toward professionals and avid gardeners who would like to learn more about fruit trees in the edible landscape including design and planting choices as well as innovations in and challenges to maintenance.  More information.

SEPTEMBER 9
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS

On Thursday, September 9, 2010, The Crane Estate, 290 Argilla Rd., Ipswich, will host award-winning landscape designer and preservationist Lucinda Brockway, who will present A Grand Undertaking: The Allee Restoration at Castle Hill.  In this illustrated talk, Allee project directors Lucinda Brockway and Crane Estate Superintendent Robert Murray will discuss the challenging work-in-progress to restore the half-mile long tree-lined lawn known as the Grand Allee both historically and sustainably.

This is the first of The Trustees’ Landscapes and Landmarks Lecture Series, with this year’s anniversary theme, “Celebrating 100 Years of the Crane Estate Landscape.” In 1910, Richard Teller Crane, Jr., purchased “Castle Hill Farm” in Ipswich, which later expanded to become the 2,100-acre Crane Estate. The Trustees of Reservations invites you to join them in celebrating this 100th anniversary by attending the fall lecture series, which highlights the property’s designed landscapes and their landscape architects, as well as recent preservation efforts to keep these features sustainable in the 21st century.

Lectures in the series are $15 and $10 for members of The Trustees of Reservations. Series discount $25 members, $40 non-members. Tickets will be available at the door or online at www.thetrustees.org.More information on the Landscapes and Landmarks Lecture Series may also be found of the Trustees of Reservations website at www.craneestate.org or www.thetrustees.org

SEPTEMBER 13
EMBASSY PARK DESIGN COMPETITION

Embassy Park is an under-used urban pocket park in the heart of downtown Waltham, Massachusetts.

COGdesign invites students and professional landscape architects & designers, artists, architects, engineers, gardeners,  builders and designers of all kinds to take part in the Embassy Park Ideas Competition to redesign this urban pocket park.
 
The goal of this competition is to generate innovative ideas to transform this urban space into a vibrant place that reflects the energy, creativity and diversity of downtown Waltham.

Competition kicks off on September 13, 2010. Community Visioning event on September 25. Check COGdesign.org in August for more details.

Sustainable Landscapes: Planning for Large-Scale Construction
Saturday, September 18, 2010 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM 
Perkins School, 175 North Beacon Street, Watertown, MA
$20.00 Ecological Landscaping Association Member or $25 Non-Member 

Join Eco-Tour guide, Sonia Baerhuk, for a tour and presentation of large-scale construction projects at the Perkins School. Sonia will discuss proven techniques for successfully navigating the challenges of large-scale construction while creating and preserving ecological landscapes. This tour will include procedures for protecting trees and shrubs during construction and will discuss transplanting using the air-spading method.  More information.

OCTOBER 8
The Cultural Landscape Foundation Conference

Shaking Their Yankee Foundations: Evolving Modernist AmbitionsLyman Estate, Waltham. For more information...

OCTOBER 21
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS LECTURE

The second lecture of the Landscapes and Landmarks Lecture Series will be held on Thursday, October 21 at 7pm when Prof. Keith Morgan, Director of Architectural Studies at Boston University, will present Before the Grand Allee: The Olmsted Brothers at Castle Hill, focusing on this famous Boston landscape architecture firm and their visions for an Italianate landscape at Castle Hill.

Lectures in the series are $15 and $10 for members of The Trustees of Reservations. Series discount $25 members, $40 non-members.

More information on the Landscapes and Landmarks Lecture Series may also be found of the Trustees of Reservations website at www.craneestate.org or www.thetrustees.org

NOVEMBER 6

LARE Section F Exam
Professional Credential Services (PCS) will be holding Section F Exams on

• November 6, 2010 (Quincy & Springfield)
• December 6, 2010 (Worcester)

If you have questions visit the PCS web page which covers the Landscape Architect Examinations in Massachusetts.

And if you are interested in an MA Section F Review Session, save time on Thursday evening, April 15. More information will be available shortly.

26TH Annual BUILD BOSTON
November 17-19, 2010
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston

Join fellow BSLA members at this year’s Build Boston conference and tradeshow.

Industry leaders from around the world team up with the Northeast’s best to share expertise in more than 150 workshops, full-day symposia and architectural tours at Build Boston.

The professional-development program focuses on current and pressing issues for the design and construction industry, including post-LEED energy solutions, codes, BIM/IPD, historic preservation, building science, landscape and urban design, and more.

Build Boston also features the largest design and construction industry exhibit hall in the Northeast. Visit more than 250 booths to see the nation’s leading suppliers of building technologies, materials and services.

The BSLA is sponsoring three workshops including A57, Complete Streets, on Wednesday, November 17; B04, New trends and building techniques for corporate and private roof decks, and B53, Green street retrofits for stormwater management, on Thursday, November 18. For details and to register for these workshops and the dozens of others of interest to BSLA members, go to www.BuildBoston.com. 

Registration is easy!
Admission to the exhibit hall is free and workshop discounts are available when you register by October 29 using promo code BSLA.  Professionals, who register for any Build Bostonpackage, workshop or event, automatically receive free admission to the exhibit hall.

For more information and to register, visit www.BuildBoston.com.

NOVEMBER 18
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS LECTURE

The third and final lecture of the Landscapes and Landmarks Lecture Series- A Winding Tale of Craft and Creation:  Arthur Shurcliff and the Road Argilla - will take place on Thursday, November 18 at 7pm. Noted Shurcliff scholar Elizabeth Hope Cushing will present a talk about the life and work of landscape architect Arthur Shurcliff. Shurcliff, who summered on Argilla Road and designed the Allee at Castle Hill.

Lectures in the series are $15 and $10 for members of The Trustees of Reservations. Series discount $25 members, $40 non-members.

More information on the Landscapes and Landmarks Lecture Series may also be found of the Trustees of Reservations website at www.craneestate.org or www.thetrustees.org