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ASLA/ACE Mentor and BSLA Legacy Project
On behalf of the ASLA, our local Landscape Architecture community is joining forces with the local
ACE (Architecture, Construction and Engineering) Mentor Program to create an inspiring space for
one lucky school. The partnership is an affirmation of a strenthening relationship between ASLA
and the national ACE organization to combine efforts to design a pro-bono community project.The
planning work is done in the months leading up to the ASLA Annual Meeting and construction of
the project takes place within the year following the meeting. Use is made of materials donated by
Annual Meeting vendors.
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The MA ACE Program was established in 2007 for high school students interested in the design
and construction profession, offering the opportunity to work with local professionals, ACE Mentors.
During the year-long, after-school program, aspiring design, engineering and construction students
are mentored and taken through the experience of a hypothetical building project. For the ACE
students this year, the project is not hypothetical; they will be working with local professionals to
improve the Patrick J. Kennedy K-8 Schoolyard, East Boston, into an engaging multi-purpose learning
and play environment.
After many planning and preliminary programming meetings with Kennedy School representatives,
BSLA Members and Past Chapter Presidents, Ray Dunetz and Bob Corning, with help from Chris
Moyles, have prepared a BSLA/ACE team for a design charrette in September during which a site
plan for a revitalized school will be developed. The school’s administration has given the group its
list o f goals, needs and wants and it will be the students’ job to make them a reality. The project will
be highlighted at the ASLA Conference Key Note Address. Next Spring, a community-build in tandem
with construction support from a nationally recognized construction company and donations
from the ASLA Expo Vendors will bring the group’s hard work to fruition at the school. The Boston
Architectural College and Mass College of Art are also assisting with the project. You can follow the
project progress at http://bslaace.wordpress.com/.
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Featured speakers include:
(More about the ACE Project on page 84).
Patrick Blanc
Claude Cormier, ASLA
Mikyoung Kim, ASLA
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Educational Field Session Development
Associés Inc.
Design
Marion Pressley and Elena Saporta took on the very
intensive tasks of facilitating, suggesting, and cultivating proposals for field presentations of the best
examples of landscape architecture design and
topics in New England. Over forty proposals were
received and submitted to ASLA for consideration.
ASLA then had the very difficult task of selecting the
twenty field sessions to be included as part of the
Conference for CEU’s.
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500 exhibitors in the EXPO.
Featured speakers include:
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