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Please plan to join ASLA-NY for a social and educational group-sketching experience led by landscape architect and experienced urban sketcher Richard Alomar. No matter your ability level, this Sketch Walk is designed to encourage learning, creativity and connection while using observation and drawing to study NYC’s public landscapes.
The architecture and landscape of New York City is constantly changing. Commercial and residential development along the West Side, new parks throughout the boroughs and an array of transportation and waterfront proposals mark a trajectory of intense urban development. These changes are another layer on New York’s rich and dense urban history.
This engaging education session, organized for New York Landscape Architects, Designers and Students, uses sketching to explore a series of new and established urban spaces. Documentation using a variety of sketching techniques will be used to discuss architectural and landscape resilience, urban and site design, and materiality.
- 4 LA CES PDH
Many thanks to the day’s generous sponsors:
Speaker Bio
Richard Alomar, RLA, FASLA. Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture
Richard teaches design and construction to undergraduate and graduate students in the department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He promotes sketching through sketch-walks, lectures, research and academic writing. His teaching extends to school children, design professionals and to the general public with sketching programs in New York City and across New Jersey.
He has an undergraduate degree in Agronomy from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and an MLA from Louisiana State University.
Schedule
(Subject to Change)
11:00-11:30 WAGNER PARK
Sketch Exercise “Design with water”
11:30-12:00 FERRY TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK
Sketch Exercises “The Grand View”
12:00-1:00 LUNCH IN THE PARK
Sketch Exercises “People and Space”
1:00-3:00 BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK
Sketch Exercises: “The Nature of Parks”
What to Bring
- Lunch
- Sketchbook (a small one will be provided)
- A range of pencils and pens
- Dress for ferry travel