Kentucky ASLA Chapter

Here are a few morning visitors to the Kenturky Chapter's Park(ing) Day space in Lexington.

Park(ing) Day
Held on September 21 in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, PARK(ing) Day is an annual open-source global event. Citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into "PARK(ing)" spaces: temporary public places. This day calls attention to the need for open space and increasing the benefits that trees and parks give to urban living. The chapter took two parking stalls and made a temporary park for the day.

Lexington Mayor Greg Fischer joined chapter members Kopke-Jones and Liz Piper at Louisville's Park(ing) Day.

Additional Events
The chapter met in Covington June 16 at Behringer-Crawford Museum and on June 17 at the Cincinnati Zoo. On October 24 Kevin Sloan gave a free lecture in Louisville. Through a series of analytical vignettes and built designs ("Parallels") he discussed a decade of exploration by Kevin Sloan Studio into the metropolitan city pattern - its historically unprecedented form, antagonism toward place and space, and ambiguous future.

On October 9, Henk Ovink and Dr. Michael Speaks engaged in an interactive discussion with Dr. Speaks about sustainable planning on a large scale and implementation through public-private partnerships.

Horst Schach, has retired from the University of Kentucky after 43 years.

On November 10, University of Kentucky Arboretum hosted a retirement reception for Horst Schach. After 43 years of outstanding service to the University of Kentucky, he retired at the end of August with the title of professor emeritus. Schach has been the heart and soul of the program during his tenure as program founder and chairman. He has been the flagship of landscape architecture in Kentucky as it evolved from relative obscurity into a mainstream design profession.

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