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The Face of Gardens in a Densifying City

This panel will explore the aesthetic role, civic importance, and social impact of gardens in the city. Cultivated green space, even on the scale of the home garden, adds more than just biological diversity; it can utterly transform both the texture and character of an urban environment. Five exciting speakers will explain how landscape - the space between buildings - is as much a part of the city as the architecture, and what parks, campuses, green roofs, and streetscapes can do for an urban community.

SPEAKER BIO

Sarah Graham is a principal of agps architecture, a multidisciplinary team in Los Angeles and Zürich, Switzerland, bridging the realms of infrastructure, architecture, and landscape. Founded in 1982 with Marc Angélil, the group considers architecture as a collaborative enterprise, exploring relationships between design processes and products.

agps’s work ranges from transportation infrastructure including the Portland Aerial Tram and the Midfield Terminal at the Zürich International Airport, to Master Planning including the adidas World Headquarters Master Plan in Hergogenaurach, Germany, to institutional buildings such as the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles and the World Conservation Fund in Geneva. Residential projects are built in Switzerland and throughout the United States. agps has won numerous design awards and has extensive publication of projects worldwide.

Sustainable design has been part of the team’s multidisciplinary design approach for almost 20 years, beginning with the Esslingen Town Center near Zürich, Switzerland.

Sarah Graham holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California and a visiting professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and the University of California, Berkeley.