UPCOMING EVENTS

The Municipal Art Society of New York has invited Thomas Woltz to serve on the 10th annual MASterworks Awards jury. These awards celebrate provocative, innovative, contemporary architecture and design that enrich New York City’s built environment.


Thomas Woltz has the following upcoming speaking engagements scheduled for 2010:

February 16 – St. Anne’s Belfield School Science Fair, Charlottesville, VA

February 19 – State University of New York Environmental Science and Forestry School, Syracuse, NY “Designing Common Ground: collaborative design dialogues in the work of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects”

May 14-15 – Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, Designing for Biodiversity: Wildlife Habitats Symposium: “Biodiversity and Farming: Defining a role for contemporary landscape architecture that encourages plant and wildlife biodiversity within the context of productive agricultural land”

September – Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, Charlottesville, VA
RECENT EVENTS

October 22, 2009
Warren Byrd was honored as a Bracken Fellow by Penn State University’s Department of Landscape Architecture. He delivered one of this year’s Bracken Lectures entitled “Cienegaic Landscapes: the recent work of Nelson Byrd Woltz.”

October 23-25, 2009
Warren Byrd presented a position paper at Penn State’s Department of Architecture Symposium “Environmentally Conscious Design – Educating Future Architects" (.pdf download).

October 28-29, 2009
The Charles F. Gillette Forum at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, VA. Thomas Woltz delivered one of the keynote addresses entitled “Narratives of Ecology in Public and Private Contemporary Design.”

November 12, 2009
St. Louis Earth Day Symposium ‘Eco-nomics: Economy and Ecology.' Warren Byrd delivered the keynote address ‘Creating Sustainable Places’.

September 18 – 21, 2009, ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo in Chicago; partners Warren Byrd and Thomas Woltz participated in forums.

July 1, 2009 - Citygarden, a three-acre public sculpture garden designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz in the heart of St. Louis, Missouri, opened to the public.

2009 National ASLA Awards Program – one Honor Award for The Dell at the University of Virginia. "Brava! In an era of environmental clichés, this project is truly original. We love the context of its location at one of the best landscape architecture schools in the world. The geometry and curvature make it romantic and rich. It works well in all four seasons. When you’re in college, you’re looking for these kinds of places." — 2009 Professional Awards Jury

2009 Virginia ASLA Awards Program - three Honor Awards (Tupelo Farm, Nick’s Head Master Plan, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Hydrologic Master Plan), two Merit Awards (Western Albemarle Garden, The Homestead), and one Award of Excellence (Charles Luck Stone Center). The Award of Excellence has been given only once before.

2009 National ASLA Student Awards – Warren Byrd served as Chair of this year’s jury, the third year in a row to serve on a national ASLA awards jury.
LECTURES and SYMPOSIA

Warren Byrd

Blandy Experimental Farm and State Arboretum of Virginia, Boyce VA, first annual Martha Cook lecture. “Designing Botanical (and Other Gardens) for the 21st Century”.
April 19, 2009

23rd Annual Lahr Symposium entitled ‘Native Plants: In Design’ at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC. “An Eye for the Natural and the Art of Design”.
March 28, 2009

New York Botanical Garden Speaker Series. “Arboreal and Other Arks”.
November 3, 2008

Garden Club of Virginia Annual Meeting Keynote Address ‘Creating Gardens that Sustain Us’
February 2008
LECTURES and SYMPOSIA

Thomas Woltz

"Designing the Livable Landscape," Australian and New Zealand Garden Design Conferences, Melbourne, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand "Narratives of Ecology in Contemporary Design"
September 2009

Garden Conservancy Los Angeles Chapter, Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, California “Conservation by Design: Narratives of Ecology from the Public Park
to the Working Farm”
February 27-28, 2009

The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s Second Wave of Modernism Conference, Chicago, Illinois, “Form and Space: The Influence of Architecture”
November 13 - 15, 2008

University of Virginia School of Architecture Faculty Research Symposium IX. Charlottesville, Virginia “Designing the Balance: Defining a Role for Contemporary Landscape Architecture in the Integration of Ecological Conservation and Productive Agricultural Land”
September 5, 2008

The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons Bridgehampton, New York, “The 21st Century Formal Garden: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Form”
June 15, 2008

Eastwoodhill Arboretum, Gisborne, New Zealand
February 2008

Garden Conservancy San Francisco Chapter, The Presidio, San Francisco, California. “Just Passing Through: Landscape Design from Garden Scale to the Scale of the Ecosystem”
April 3, 2008

University of Virginia School of Architecture, Charlottesville, Virginia “Alternative Technologies”
January 2008
LECTURES and SYMPOSIA

Warren Byrd and Thomas Woltz

ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo in Philadelphia –Inside the Studio of Nelson Byrd Woltz
October 2008
LECTURES and SYMPOSIA

Kennon Williams and Todd Shallenberger

Virginia ASLA 2009 Spring Conference ‘Protecting Our Water Resources’ – “Sustaining and Revealing Natural Hydrology”
April 17, 2009

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

“Sculpture to Invigorate a Shrinking City," The New York Times, July 5, 2009, p. AR19. (City Garden)

“Meet Me (Again) in St. Louis”, by George Hazelrigg, ASLA, Landscape Architecture, October 2008, pp. 149-157. (City Garden)

“Making Hydrology Visible”, by Linda McIntyre, Landscape Architecture, August 2008, pp. 92-99 (The Dell at the University of Virginia)