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2020 Annual Reception and Awards Celebration | NY Upstate Chapter ASLA
Join your friends and colleagues to celebrate the Chapter’s Distinguished Professionals, Distinguished Students, and Excellence in Design.
Don’t miss our most popular event of the year. The New York Upstate Chapter, ASLA invites you to join your colleagues, friends, and students for an evening of celebration. We will honor our Chapter’s Distinguished Professionals, Distinguished Students, and give recognition to the projects demonstrating excellence in Landscape Architecture.
This year we are celebrating in Rochester and invite you to make the most of your stay. Visit the Chapter website to learn more about the event and other weekend activities.
The Chapter received a total of 29 professional entries distributed among 6 categories. The entries were judged by a multi-disciplinary jury established by the Ohio Chapter ASLA.
TENTATIVE RECEPTION SCHEDULE
5:00 - 6:00 Registration & Social Reception
Celebrating a wonderful year! During the reception please take time to:
- Review the Student Project Showcase
- Submit your ballot for the Golden Gnome Award
- Enjoy the Grazing Stations (menu to be posted soon)
- Basket Raffle - Proceeds Support the Student Scholarship Fund
- Have fun reconnecting with your friends and colleagues
6:00 - 7:00 Dinner
7:00 - 8:30 Awards Presentation
- Remarks from Guest Speaker, Dennis Nola, PLA, ASLA.
- We will recognize Distinguished Practitioners and Students and announce the Annual Design Awards. The Awards were judged by the Ohio Chapter ASLA.
8:30 - 9:30 Dessert Reception and Additional Award Announcements
- Student Project Award
- Golden Gnome Award
- Raffle Basket Winners
Evening Highlights
Distinguished Practitioners & Students
We are pleased to announce the New York Upstate Chapter, ASLA 2020 Distinguished Practitioners and Students. Congratulations to the following individuals for their achievements in their practice
- Edward Liddell, RLA, ASLA , Distinguished Practitioner, Private Practice
- Jocelyn Gavitt, RLA, ASLA, Distinguished Practitioner, Academic Practice
- Nicole Cleary, RLA, ASLA, Distinguished Emerging Practitioner
- Hannah Noll, Distinguished Student, SUNY ESF
- Molly Davis, Distinguished Student, Cornell
Guest Speaker
We welcome Dennis Nola, PLA, ASLA as keynote speaker. Dennis is the Chair of the Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Program in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland. His teaching focus, over the past 35 years, is conservation and environmental based site planning and urban agriculture. He teaches two study abroad courses in Italy and New Zealand. Dennis volunteers his professional services in an under-served community as President of the Board of Directors of their Community Development Corporation. He also maintains a consulting practice and is the Vice President of ASLA for Membership.
Gift Basket Raffle
Various donations from each section will be available for raffle. The proceeds for the raffle will support the Student Scholarship Fund. If you would like to donate an item for the raffle, please contact Molly Vendura (mvendura@vendurala.com)
Student Project Showcase
Students from Cornell and SUNY ESF will participate in a poster session during the reception. Attendees will be asked to rank the projects during the reception and the highest ranking project will receive an Award.
Accommodations
Hyatt Regency Rochester / 125 E Main St, Rochester
P: (585) 546-1234
A group rate is available until January 31. To make reservations,
Onsite courtesy car available , ask hotel for more information when booking.
EVENT ADD-ON
Join us early for an afternoon film
Join us for the screening of
Screening at 2pm at
The film will be followed by a 30 minute panel discussion (1 HSW PDH ).
SPEAKERS (full bios below)
Moderator
- David Cutter, ASLA, SITES AP / University Landscape Architect, Cornell University
Speakers
- Renata Kraft, RLA, ASLA / Deputy Executive Director, Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper
- Rachelle McKnight, RLA, ISA / Project Landscape Architect, Weston & Sampson
- Ian Law, RLA, ASLA / Principal, PLACE Alliance Northeast
- Ken Avery, PE / Practice Leader - Water Resources, Bergmann
Extend Your Stay
Check out some of the various museums and cultural organizations before you leave town.
Dutch Connection, Thousands of blooms fill George Eastman’s Conservatory and Palm House with the sights and scents of spring in this annual display.
Kids Create, We offer fun and flexible creative art projects you can make before, after or while your family explores the museum, in the pavilion on Saturdays!
SciFiTech, rewards your curiosity with an immersive experience unlike any other, where you can engage in a virtual world with the Oculus Rift™ and interact with robots, inventors, storied characters, and more.
Watermark Film Screening
Speaker Bios
Ian Law, RLA, ASLA Principal /Director of Urban Planning & Design PLACE Alliance Northeast
As head of the PLACE Alliance New York Design Studio, Ian is one of the Northeastern Region’s leaders in urban design and planning. His over 20 years of experience in landscape architecture and urban planning, downtown/waterfront revitalization, and community master planning have spanned a wide variety of award-winning projects, including the State Street Streetscape in Schenectady, NY, the One Monument Square Urban Redevelopment Vision for Troy, NY, the Downtown/Waterfront Master Plan for Port Chester, NY, and Long Term Community Recovery Plans for several Upstate New York communities. A firm believer in a collaborative design process, Ian has been the team leader for dozens of design charrettes and community design forums. His international experience has included such diverse projects as the Ancient Yellow River Urban Master Plan in Suqian, China and the Rio Chile Riverfront Park planning project in Arequipa, Peru. Following the disastrous events of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, Ian led teams of specialists for many flood adaptation projects throughout Upstate New York, including projects for the Town of Prattsville, Village of Sidney, Village of Tannersville, Town of Lexington, Town of Union, and several other communities within Broome County. Currently, Ian and his team are leading an unprecedented flood adaptation effort in the Historic Stockade District of the City of Schenectady
Rachelle McKnight, RLA, ISA
Project Landscape Architect
Weston & Sampson
Ms. McKnight spent her formative years in Kentucky, creek splashing and horseback riding in the hills and forests of the rural south. After spending a number of years working as a scenic artist in New York City, she decided to pursue a career in landscape architecture, where she entwine her creative abilities with scientific inquiry and ecological systems planning. In practice, Rachelle conducts riparian, wetland, and woodland investigations whose data helps Engineers, conservationists, and planners devise management strategies to maximize ecosystem resilience. In all aspects of her career, she seeks to enhance the lives of floral, faunal, and human residents.
Renata Niedzwiecka Kraft, RLA, ASLA
Deputy Executive Director
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper
As Deputy Executive Director, Renata helps to guide Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper’s mission and helps lead our multidisciplinary teams in the visioning, planning, design, and implementation of programs and projects throughout the Niagara River watershed. Waterkeeper’s mission is to protect clean water by restoring the health of our ecosystems, while at the same time connecting people to water and inspiring economic growth.
Current projects include implementation of the Buffalo Blueway, visioning for the Buffalo River Walk, implementation of the Living Shorelines program and acceleration of Scajaquada Creek restoration. Renata is a New York State Registered Landscape Architect.
A graduate of the professional Landscape Architecture program in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington in Seattle, Renata practiced in both planning and landscape architecture in Seattle and San Diego prior to relocating to Western New York.
Renata’s professional experience includes park, campus, urban and community master planning and design; multi-modal transportation project development; cultural and historic landscape preservation; public art incorporation; waterfront development, and ecological resource enhancement and implemetation.
Renata currently serves on the boards of Vision Niagara and Partners for a Livable Western New York and serves as a member of the Congress for New Urbanism Finance Committee.
Ken Avery, PE
Practice Leader - Water Resources
Bergmann
Ken is the Water Resources Practice Leader at Bergmann. He has over 40 years of consulting experience in water resources engineering and environmental compliance that includes large and small projects and programs involving public safety, environmental restoration and compliance, and resilient infrastructure. Some of the projects and programs Ken has had significant involvement with include: environmental compliance monitor for the Governor Mario M. Cuomo bridge project; the New York State Thruway Authority’s bridge scour evaluation program; the New York State Canal Corporation’s dam safety compliance program; Cuyahoga Valley National Park riverbank management program; City of Rochester West River Wall Improvements – Phase I; Port Bay Barrier Bar Improvement Project; and the New York Power Authority’s Reimagine the Canals program. Ken is a licensed Professional Engineer, a Certified Floodplain Manager, and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers.
