Next Up Mini-Session #6: a panel discussion with Dry Futures jurors

2015-11-04T15:32:00-05:00

Tomorrow (!!!) we'll premiere season two of Archinect Sessions, and in anticipation of the launch, we've been posting Mini-Sessions – interviews recorded during our first-ever live-podcasting series, "Next Up", held at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles' Chinatown and at the opening weekend of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. You can listen to past Mini-Sessions here. We'll also be launching a brand new podcast soon.

For our last Mini-Session recorded at Jai & Jai, we spoke with a panel of jurors from Archinect's Dry Futures competition, featuring: Charles Anderson of werk, Hadley Arnold of the Arid Lands Institute, Ian Quate and Colleen Tuite of GRNASFCK (who joined us via Skype), and Peter Zellner of Zellner Naecker Architects LLP. The winners had been announced just a few days prior.

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Meet the jury of Archinect's "Dry Futures" competition: Charles Anderson of WERK

2015-08-22T09:39:00-04:00

I want to see the relationship between architecture and other infrastructure and landscape architecture strengthened, so that we’re building good infrastructure that relates well to the landscape and is sustainable.”

Charles Anderson FSLA is the president/principal of WERK, a landscape architecture firm based in what he calls “the heart of LA in a lot of ways, at least for the strange people,” Venice Beach. Living and working next to the Pacific, Anderson has seen firsthand the power and presence of the planet’s water system, and how the drought and rising sea levels, wrought by climate change, have wreaked havoc on California’s landscape.

After graduating with a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Harvard’s GSD, Anderson has worked to combine an appreciation of wild landscapes with his love of contemporary art. Respecting an area’s natural flora is a major motivation for his landscapes – California’s relatively dry biome was not meant for thirsty plants, but the landscape that's been built here has put unnecessary stresses on the region. Much can be learned from the plant life in similar climates, like Greece’s, where water simply isn’t as much of a necessity.

Aside from respecting California...

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Next Up Mini-Session #6: a panel discussion with Dry Futures jurors

Meet the jury of Archinect's "Dry Futures" competition: Charles Anderson of WERK