PSLA Seminar: Landscape and Social Resiliency in Park Making
Date: Friday, October 25
Time: 12:00 pm -1:00 pm
Room: WBY 001
About the speaker:
Christopher Gate
Principal & Technical Director, OSD | Outside
http://osd.nyc/work
Chris has designed and managed a wide range of projects in fourteen years of practice, from residential gardens to public parks and university campuses. The construction budgets for these projects reflect similar scales - from tens of thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars. Chris has led large teams of design consultants, including architects, engineers, ecologists, urban designers, soil experts, hydrologists, and builders.
Prior to joining OSD, Chris was Associate Principal at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, where he led a team of 19 consultants on the design and construction oversight of the $220 Million Gathering Place in Tulsa Oklahoma. The Gathering Place is a new park for the city of Tulsa on the edge of the Arkansas river that included land bridges, realigned bike, car and pedestrian routes, wetland gardens, outdoor eating spaces, ecological restoration, stone gardens, playgrounds, pedestrian bridges, open lawns, park buildings, and other and active recreation programs including skate parks, BMX courses and multi-use sport courts.
Chris has been a visiting critic and lecturer at the University of Connecticut, University of Nebraska School of Architecture and at the Morris Arboretum at University of Pennsylvania. Chris is a licensed landscape architect in the State of New York. Chris received his Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from the University of Connecticut, where he earned the CTASLA Honor Award for design and technical coursework. He received a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
Upcoming PSLA seminars: http://psla.uconn.edu/SeminarsFall2019.pdf
For more information, contact: PSLA at psla@uconn.edu