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Field Session

SUN-FS-06: Glenstone’s Great Green Grounds: An Insiders’ Tour of Glenstone’s 300-Acre Landscape

Sunday, October 6, 2024
8:00am – 4:45pm ET
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Field Session Departure Area 1
SOLD OUT Lunch Included
5.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, NY/HSW, FL
Ticket Price: $195 per person
Glenstone Museum offers visitors seamlessly integrated art, architecture, and nature through experience within its designed landscape. Restoring the land itself, Glenstone embodies the ability of landscape architecture to sustain both culture and the natural environment. Come experience the Glenstone landscape, led by the team who designed it and now manages and maintains it.

Includes: transportation, catered lunch. Extensive walking.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Demonstrate what can be achieved by collaboration between consultants and owners with diverse goals and specialties.
  • Understand how landscape design intent may change and be realized over a long period of time.
  • Gain insight into conceiving living systems and change as part of a landscape design focused on both performance and aesthetics.
  • Understand the difficulties and successes of an organic maintenance regime and how that relates to ideas of sustainability and “low maintenance.”