Today designers are returning to modernist sites with new motivations, attempting to balance the complex values of natural and cultural systems. To investigate this significant evolution of professional practice. Joeb was the moderator and speaker in the “Residential Transformation” section that explored landscape transformations at residential, urban and metropolitan scales. The lecture was titled: “The Emergence of Biological Thinking: Inner and Outer Landscapes in the Expanded Field of Design.”
Other speakers included; James Corner (James Corner Field Operations), Kathryn Gustafson (Gustafson Guthrie Nichol), Gary Hilderbrand (Reed Hilderbrand), Charles Renfro (Diller Scofidio + Renfro), Michael Van Valkenburgh (Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.), and others.
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