Harlow O. Whittemore Panelists Reflecting on the Past, Designing for the Future

Andi Bullock Cooper, Conservation Design Forum¸ Director of Business Development
Andi Cooper is a registered Landscape Architect with a master's degree in landscape architecture from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, and a bachelor's degree in human and organizational development from Vanderbilt University.  Andi's professional work reflects the connection between these two disciplines as she oversees all company promotions and business development. Her personal goal is to create and help others understand the value of restorative site solutions that reconnect people of all ages to the outdoors in a sustainable way. She regularly speaks at conferences sharing this message. Andi has led projects ranging from a 1500 acre park master plan, to platinum LEED rated office complex. She is a LEED accredited professional and a member of the Lombard Planning Commission.  You can often find Andi biking with her husband Jason Cooper (SNRE alumnus) and two wonderful boys on the IL Prairie Path.

Lisa Delplace, Oehme, van Sweden & Associates
Lisa Delplace's extensive professional experience includes planning, design and execution of many of the firm's notable works. Lisa's extensive knowledge of ecological processes and deep commitment to their artistic execution result in a strong sculptural relationship between architecture and landscape.  Her recent and ongoing examples include major commissions for the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, IL; the historic Congressional Cemetery and the Old Naval Hospital in Washington, DC; urban planning for Eastern Market Metro plaza and park on Capitol Hill; and the green roofs and green walls for a new civic open space for the Woodmont East development in Bethesda, MD. Other design accomplishments also include a fourteen-acre United States Embassy site in Southeast Asia, a six-acre United States Embassy site in Katmandu, Nepal, and a 500-acre National Conservation Training Center campus for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service located along the Potomac River near Shepherdstown, West Virginia. 

In addition to her work for OVSLA, Lisa's professional design experience includes work for Martha Schwartz, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Her project design and management responsibilities there included innovative redesign of the entrance plaza above underground parking for the Department of Housing and Urban Development headquarters in Washington, D.C., and a landmark feature at the 1997 Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ms. Delplace's works have been honored in national publications and respected books and periodicals.  They include Architectural Digest, June 2009, The New American Garden, edited by James Grayson Trulove, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and Mountain Resort Magazine and awards for her 2008 greenroof design in Die besten Garten, Austria

Ms. Delplace holds a Masters of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science degree in Park Planning and Design from Michigan State University.  She has served as a visiting critic and lecturer for distinguished universities, and she currently serves on the Visiting Committee for the University of Michigan.  Her international experience includes service as a U.S. Peace Corp Volunteer in Kenya, East Africa.  She has traveled extensively throughout Asia and Europe. In addition to her professional credentials as a registered Landscape Architect, Lisa is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and past-president of the Potomac Chapter. 

Eugene Herbert, Landscape Architect
Eugene Herbert completed a bachelor's degree in biological sciences at the University of Canberra, Australia in 1974.  Immediately following, he worked for the Western Australian Forests Department as a research scientist studying forest hydrology.   Herbert travelled to the United States in 1978 to attend the University of Michigan and completed a master's degree in landscape architecture in 1981.   Subsequently, Herbert returned to Western Australia and worked briefly for the Conservation and Land Management Department as a landscape architect, focusing on recreation planning and forest landscape management. Herbert then found his way to Cairns, in Queensland, Australia in 1985 and established his own consultancy firm, Siteplan Landscape Architects. After selling his in 1995, Herbert accepted a teaching position at the University of Canberra where he chaired the landscape architecture program until 1998.  He has since worked for the Sydney and Canberra local governments, primarily as a landscape architect managing diverse urban landscape capital works projects.  Herbert's primary interests include eco-tourism development and rural land-care.

Ted Wolff, Principal, Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc.
Ted Wolff is the principal of Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc., and has practiced landscape architecture in Chicago since graduating from the University of Michigan in 1979, when he started with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.  Ted's firm and practice are focused on the urban environment, including open space planning, streetscapes and plazas, and urban parks and recreation.  He has also maintained a separate focus on historic landscape preservation.

Planning experience includes the National Capital Urban Design and Security Plan, Washington, D.C., Gary Green Link Master Plan, Gary, Indiana, and CitySpace, a citywide open space plan in Chicago.  Project experience includes Gold Star Families Memorial and Park, the Rehabilitation of the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, State Street Renovation, Randolph Street Revitalization, Graceland Cemetery Restoration, and the University of Chicago Law School Reflecting Pool Restoration, all in Chicago, Illinois; Takeda Pharmaceuticals corporate headquarters, in Deerfield, Illinois; and the new Business Instructional Facility at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Panelists Diversity and Sustainability in the Landscape Architecture Field

Kofi Boone, North Carolina State University
Kofi Boone, ASLA is an assistant professor in the department of landscape architecture at North Carolina State University, College of Design. Kofi's expertise includes urbanism, community design, participatory design, and visual communication. His research focuses on landscape architecture, community engagement and environmental justice. He is co-director of the College's Ghana study abroad program. He received his master's of landscape architecture and bachelor's in natural resources from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment.  Kofi led a regenerative campus vision for WEB DuBois School, an historic Rosenwald School in Wake Forest, NC. Kofi completed phase one of Green Streets, a multi-year study of Ghanaian urban street life. He worked with the North Carolina Arts Council interpreting African American music history through new media and public art. His article, The Resilience of Ruinous Futures: Color, Urbanism, and Ecology in the Post-Jim Crow South, was recently published in InTensions.

Don Hilderbrandt II, Watercolor Artist
Don Hilderbrandt was co-founder of LDR International, a Columbia, MD-based urban design and planning firm known for their work on nationally significant projects such as the Baltimore Inner Harbor, MD; Everglades National Park, FL; Woodrow Wilson Bridge, VA and MD; and international projects in Belfast, Ireland and Manchester, England.  He became national design director for HNTB in 2000, upon the company's acquisition of LDR International.  Prior to founding LDR, Don served as chief landscape architect for the Rouse Company from 1968-1971; and worked for JJR from 1962-1968.

Projects include new towns: Columbia, MD*; Reston, VA; Nuns' Island, Montreal*; The Woodlands, TX*; and Eva Plantation, HI. Urban Design: Pennsylvania Ave, Washington*; Baltimore's Inner Harbor*; Pedestrian Movement and Open Space Framework, Birmingham, England*; Carroll Creek Park and Riverwalk, Frederick, MD; Princeton Plaza, NJ; Performing Arts Center, Greenville, SC; Reston Town Center, VA*; and New Life For Maryland's Old Towns*. Tourism and recreation: Cuyahoga Valley Recreation Area, OH*; Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda; St. George's Heritage Plan, Bermuda; and Centennial Park MD*. Regional planning: Charlotte, NC transit corridor and station area planning and Bucks County's 36 mile Delaware Riverfront revitalization plan.

*ASLA & other national Awards

Andrea Kline, Environmental Consulting and Technology
Over the course of her 25-year career as a landscape architect, Andrea has developed the ability to integrate an understanding of environmental processes with knowledge of site planning principles to create projects that meet client needs while maintaining the integrity of natural systems.  She has specific expertise in the design and implementation of a variety of wetland mitigation, stream and shoreline restoration, and landscape restoration projects.   Andrea began her landscape architectural career at JJR, Inc. and she is currently the Ecology and Design Group Manager at Environmental Consulting & Technology, Inc. (ECT), a multi-disciplinary environmental engineering company.  Andrea is responsible for leading a team of landscape ecologists, biologists, GIS specialists and civil engineers to create design solutions for clients ranging from parks departments and municipalities, private developers, and utility and power companies.

Prior to joining ECT, Andrea was the East Michigan Conservation Director for The Nature Conservancy where she managed a team of conservation biologists, land managers and real estate specialists to develop strategies to conserve valuable natural areas in landscapes as diverse as the shorelines of Lakes Huron and Erie, agricultural landscapes of southern Michigan, and the Detroit metropolitan area.   Andrea earned her bachelor's of science in landscape architecture from West Virginia University, and her master's of landscape architecture from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment.  She is a registered landscape architect in Michigan.

Dave LaClergue, City of Seattle Department of Planning and Development
Since graduating from the SNRE Landscape Architecture program in 2007, Dave LaClergue has worked for the Seattle Department of Planning and Development as a planner and urban designer.  Dave  is the policy and implementation lead for the Seattle Green Factor, an innovative new landscaping requirement based on European precedents.  He is also working on a comprehensive update of development standards for Seattle's shorelines.  A native of Olympia, WA, Dave is happy to be back in the Pacific Northwest, although he sorely misses Zingerman's bacon bread.  When not chasing their one-year-old daughter around the house, he and his wife, Susie, enjoy cooking and reading.