Gina Ford: Micro, Macro, Mega - Designing Landscapes of Urban Change

Wednesday April 6, 2016 , All Day
Gina Ford

Gina Ford, ASLA is a landscape architect, principal, and chair of Sasaki's Urban Studio. The Urban Studio is an energized and interdisciplinary group of practitioners solely dedicated to the improvement of quality of life in cities through rigorous planning, exceptional design, and strong community partnerships. 

Gina's work encompasses a wide range of scales and project types, from public parks and plazas to large-scale landscape planning and waterfront projects. She brings to each project a passion for the process of making vibrant landscape spaces—from the conceptual design to the details of implementation—with a particular focus on the life and use of urban, public environments. 

Gina's experience is additionally informed by extensive research, writing, travel, teaching, and competitions. Her teaching includes guest critic and studio instructor roles at the Harvard Design School, MIT, and RISD. She holds degrees in architecture from Wellesley College and landscape architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and was the recipient of Wellesley's Shaw Fellowship, the Janet Darling Webel Prize, the Hyde Chair at the University of Nebraska, and the Charles Eliot Travelling Fellowship.

Cities across the United States, in an effort to maintain competitiveness and address broader economic, ecological or social issues, are investing in innovative planning and design. In her lecture, titled “Micro, Macro, Mega: Designing Landscapes of Urban Change,” Ford will discuss projects at a range of scales where landscape is leading this charge as a powerful urban catalyst.

 

Images courtesy of Christian Philips and Sasaki Associates.