Lectures and Events
The Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Lecture Series exposes students, faculty, alumni, practitioners and the public to the breadth of players, ideas, situations, issues, challenges, technologies and methods, controversies, collaborations, and achievements related to the profession. The lectures are held in the Burns Auditorium in Kamphoefner; they are typically scheduled for Wednesday evenings, 6:00 pm right after studio. Each lecture typically lasts for an hour, followed by Q + A and a brief discussion. Many speakers will extend their visits to campus in order to participate in design studio reviews and brown bag lunch sessions with students and faculty.
Spring 2023 Lectures
Recent Lectures
2022 lectures

NCSU ASLA Student Award Winners
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The Nature Effect: How Parks and the Public Realm Contribute to Healthy Communities
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Luck, Glamour, Passion, and Prestige (and why they’re all a fallacy)
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Design as an Act of Seeing and Creating
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Regional and Specific: Experiments in Scale and Time
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Landscapes and Memory
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2021 lectures

From What to Why
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Reconnecting with Overlooked Legacies
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Updating Arcadia in Landscape Planning
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Finding the Missing Landscape
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Envisioning the Planetary
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Climate Positive Design: Going Beyond Neutral
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Challenging Lawn Order: Barriers, Bylaws and the Biophilic City
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Return to Community: Designing for Community Wealth Building
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Previous Lecture Events
- DesignWeek [2018]: Opening Panel, Mark Johnson, CEO Civitas
- The Annual Victor Stanley Lecture: Friday, 9/22 + Saturday event morning event at JC Raulston Dr. James Hitchmough
- The Annual Richard Bell Lecture: Wednesday, October 11 | James Burnett, FASLA
- The First Annual Lewis Clarke Lecture: Wednesday, November, 17 | Linda Jewell, FASLA
- Thomas Woltz, FASLA, Nelson Byrd Woltz, “Master Planning Urban Parks in the 21st Century”
- Michelle Delk, ASLA, “Snøhetta Habitations”
- Gina Ford, ASLA, Sasaki Associates, “Micro, Macro, Mega, and Moore Square: Designing Landscapes of Urban Change.”
- Paul Morris, FASLA, President and CEO of the Atlanta Beltline, “The Atlanta Beltline: Changing the Landscape for the Metro Atlanta Region.”
- Justin Martin, author, “Fredrick Law Olmsted: the Accidental Renaissance Man.”
- Daniel Winterbottom, University of Washington, FASLA, Professor of Landscape Architecture, “Sticks and Stones May Heal our Bones: Rebuilding Community.”
- Annette Wilkus, FASLA, RLA, LEED, AP, SiteWorks, SiteWorks, “Building New York’s Next of Parks.”
- Kenny Helphand, FASLA, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon, “Larry Halprin: Performance Artist.”
- Gary Findell, FiNe Construction Solution, “A Landscape Architect in Haiti – Cultural Challenges in Building Community … or Anything Else.”
- Robin Moore and Nilda Cosco, NCSU, Natural Learning Initiative, “Landscape Design as a Health Intervention.”
- Jeff Carney, Director LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio, “Delta Building: Design in an Indeterminate Landscape.”
- Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA, Reed Hilderbrand, “Visible Invisible.”
- Matthew Urbanski, MVVA, FASLA, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, “New Parks for the Reinvented City.”
- Charles A. Flink, FASLA, “WalkBikeNC: The Evolution of North Carolina Transportation.”
- Matthew Tomasulo, CityFabric, “Entrpreneurial Urbanism.”
- Warren T. Byrd, Jr., Nelson Byrd Woltz, “Meandering with Purpose: Research, Practice.”