ASLA 2013 Annual Meeting & EXPO - Boston

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By David Driapsa, ASLA
FLASLA HALS Chair

If you will be attending the ASLA 2013 Annual Meeting & EXPO, you might be interested in experiencing the diversity of historic landscapes in and around Boston.

For the faithful students of Frederick Law Olmsted, Boston is home to the great Emerald Necklace. In Brookline, is Fairsted, Olmsted’s home and studio. Other noteworthy historic landscapes within an easy walk of the Convention Center include the Boston Commons, the Boston Public Gardens, Copley Square, the Granary and King’s Chapel burial grounds. Mount Auburn Cemetery with its shaded dales and beautiful vistas of the City on a Hill is across the Charles River in Cambridge.

Some noteworthy landscapes further afield may include, Walden Pond; the Revolutionary-era cities of Lexington, Concord and Lincoln; Minute Man National Historic Park, Concord Battleground, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s home, as well as the Gropius House. Wellesley College is southwest of Boston.

The Annual Meeting offers educational sessions and professional opportunities to learn about historic preservation. The Historic Preservation Professional Practice Network annual meeting will be held on Sunday, Nov. 17 at 3:15 p.m. The annual face-to-face HALS meeting will be held on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 5:15 p.m. The theme of the 2013 HALS challenge was "Documenting the Cultural Landscapes of Women." Awards will be given at the HALS meeting to recognize this year’s top three HALS submissions. On the EXPO floor, the HP-PPN and HALS will have exhibit tables. Please be sure to stop by.

 EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS RELATED TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION:

 FRI-A01 The Continuity of Change: Adapting and Interpreting Modernist Era Landscapes

 FRI-D06 Boston Through the Eyes of Landscape Architects

 FRI-D08 Solving the Congestion Crisis in America's National Parks

 SAT-A05 Capture, Create, and Convey with HD Laser Scanning and Other New 3D Technologies

 SUN-A05 Great Public Spaces: Philadelphia's Regional Foundation Creates a Public Space Fund

 MON-B07 Compelling Storytelling: Integrating Art, Information, and Landscape

 MON-B10 Boston Urban Wilds: Sustaining a Landmark Urban Ecology Program

 FIELD SESSIONS RELATED TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION:
 
 FS0001 Newport's Cultural and Historic Landscapes - Past to Present

 FS002 Sustainable Futures for Historic Properties: Estates in North Easton and Milton

 FS003 Landscape Cemeteries in the 21st Century and Contemporary Design Challenges

 FS005 The Emerald Necklace: Balancing the Past, the Present, and the Future

 FS006 New Campus Interventions at Wellesley and MIT

 FS014 Four Gardens of the Fenway

 FS016 The Past, Present, and Future of Harvard University Campus Spaces

 FS019 Boston from the Charles River can experience in and around Boston.

 There is surely something of historical landscape interest in Boston for everyone.