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LASN June 2016 Movers & Shakers06-13-16 | Department

Movers & Shakers

Faye Harwell, FASLA, of Rhodeside & Harwell, was recently honored by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation for her multi-phase landscape design work at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. As a consultant to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the firm has provided planning and landscape architecture services for several projects at the National Arboretum, including new courtyards and gardens at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum and renovations to the National Herb Garden.

Harriman and The Cecil Group, a newly merged architecture, engineering, urban design, planning, and landscape architecture firm, announced that Howard Snyder, CLARB has rejoined the firm as a landscape architect. He will be based in the firm's Boston office working on a range of landscape architecture and planning projects.

For more than 30 years, Rios Clementi Hale Studios has created comprehensive and integrated solutions for a variety of design challenges in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design, interior design, graphics and signage, exhibit, and product design. Firm partners promoted Mark Motonaga to partner. Motonaga joined the firm in 2009 and has served as project manager and designer on projects ranging from highly detailed residential properties to large-scale urban developments. His understanding of underlying cultural currents of a site help create bold, distinct designs that reveal the story that defines a place. Matt Richmond was promoted to chief technology officer. He joined the firm as a landscape architect in 1996. Being well-versed in design disciplines, he was one of the pioneers of notNeutral, the firm's home furnishings and lifestyle products company, designing products as well as the lighting fixtures for notNeutral's first retail store. Samantha Harris, LEED AP, has been promoted to principal. She joined the firm in 1999 and plays an integral role in many prominent landscape architecture commissions, moving easily from commercial, retail, institutional, and municipal installations to high-end residential projects. Newly promoted principal Greg Kochanowski joined the firm in 2007. He combines the techniques and strategies of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design to create forward-thinking environments. He was a recipient of the prestigious Young Architects Forum Award from the Architectural League of New York.

Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, has hired Dennis Pitts and Larry Ragland as land planners in the firm's Raleigh, N.C. office. Pitts specializes in large-scale master planning and has been involved in more than 125 public and private school projects in North Carolina. He has 43 years of experience in project management, master planning, programming, site development. Ragland specializes in environmental inventory and analysis, project management, and construction administration. Throughout his 42 years of experience, he has worked on dozens of K-12 schools, parks, office parks, industrial parks, shopping centers, processing centers, transportation facilities.

UCLA Extension students Philip Steinman, Jonathan Vu, Sean Carter, Susheela Narayan, Alexis SantaRomana, Douglas Short, Juliana Bellonby, Brian DePaz, Jim Pickel (instructor). Not pictured: Richard Emery and Ron Ruiz.

Soon, gridlocked rush-hour commuters on San Vicente Boulevard will have something more pleasant to look at than the closest pair of brake lights: beautifully planted medians sporting a colorful array of drought-tolerant California native flora, courtesy of a hardworking group of students. A team from UCLA Extension's Landscape Architecture Program recently had its street median design selected as the winning university-level entry in the Los Angeles Department of Public Works' Median Design Competition. The contest, which offered a $2,500 prize, challenged student teams from universities and community colleges to prepare landscape design concepts to improve median conditions and increase drought awareness.

Davis Partnership has relocated its office to The Bindery Building in the River North area of Denver. "We are all thrilled to part of this dynamic Denver neighborhood and to call such a striking historic structure our new home" said Lynn Moore, FALSA, principal with the firm.

Lynn Capouya, Inc. Landscape Architects announced that Bret Hanson has joined the staff as an associate principal. He is a licensed landscape architect and LEED AP with over 11 years servicing clients, creating meaningful places and telling stories through a diverse project portfolio.

As seen in LASN magazine, June 2016.