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Concurrent Education Session

MON-B01: Inside the LA Studio—Michael Vergason Landscape Architects

Monday, October 7, 2024
2:00pm – 3:15pm ET
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Center Stage -Salon I
1.25 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, FL

MVLA is founded on the belief that landscape architecture is a poetic response to the human need for connection to the world. Established in 1987, we are a studio-based practice committed to timeless design and resilient execution. The firm approaches each project with a creative and rigorous study of the site. We then identify ways to marry human use with the land’s cultural and ecological systems. This process forges places that spark delight and rekindle our unity with nature.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Discover how hand drawing at all phases of design and documentation influences the process and the practice at MVLA.
  • Learn how the decision to stay “small” impacts the texture of the practice, the culture of the studio, and the business of the operation.
  • Understand how long-term collaborative relationships with institutions and architects create effective, efficient, and evolving approaches to design.
  • See how sensitivity to site and context, and a drive toward quiet contextual design, influences the collective character of the work of the studio.