Back in April, on the 26th, chapter members joined the @anchoragedesignweek community design presentation to learn about ongoing efforts to redesign the experience of midtown Anchorage through the combined lens of urban design, landscape architecture, and ecosystem rehabilitation along the urbanized Fish Creek corridor. Local designer Tam????s De????k highlighted planning and design efforts at urban and site scales developed as part of his professional practice at KPB Architects and service as board member for Friends of Fish Creek, a local non-profit organization advocating to acknowledge Fish Creek's cultural significance and restore its wild salmon habitat through daylighting (https://www.daylightfishcreek.org).

 
Presented as an ongoing series of Anchorage Design Week, participants learned about Fish Creek and the work of designers, planners, advocates and neighbors seeking to advance improvements to both the human and riparian habitats along one of Anchorage's most impaired stream systems. In addition to decades of experience working on design and planning projects throughout Alaska as a Principal at KPB Architects, Tam????s has dedicated himself in service to the community of Anchorage by chairing numerous boards and commissions, and advocating for long-lasting improvements for residents at municipal, state, and national levels. Tam????s leads design professionals and project teams as mentor and collaborator while seeking to advance responsive and responsible design solutions along and adjacent to riparian corridors and within watersheds for improved community health and habitat function.
This presentation was a collaborative program from the Anchorage Museum, the Alaska Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects, KPB Architects, and Friends of Fish Creek. www.akasla.org/meet-asla-ak