Albert Hinckley
Warrenton, Virginia
Mr. Hinckley attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and holds a Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Architecture from M.I.T. He is the principal in solely owned firm of Albert P. Hinkley, Jr. AIA from 1966-96, when the firm became a partnership, Hinkley, Shepherd, Norden, PLC. His work includes public schools and community colleges in New York, residential work in Boston and public and private housing in Israel. The firm has done work in the District of Columbia, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island and Louisiana. Albert served as project architect for the Steamboat Mississippi Queen and is a Member of the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Covent Garden and the Casa del Herrero Foundation of Santa Barbara, CA.
Arleyn Levee
Belmont, Massachusetts
Ms. Levee received degrees from Wellesley College, Harvard University, and the Radcliffe Seminars Program in Landscape Design. She maintains a practice both in consulting for historical landscape projects, particularly those involving the designs of the Olmsted firm, and in landscape design, primarily for private residential projects. Since l982 she has served in various capacities for the National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP), most recently as Co-Chair. A founding member of the Massachusetts Association for Olmsted Parks (MAOP), she now serves on the Board of Directors for Historic Massachusetts. She is an Advisory Trustee for the Maine Olmsted Alliance for Parks and Landscapes, has served as an advisor to the Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission's Green Ribbon Commission, and currently sits on the Landscape Council for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Ms. Levee lectures frequently on landscape history, research, preservation, and advocacy, and has advised on several exhibits of Olmsted related works. She coordinated research and production for The Master List of Design Projects of The Olmsted Firm, l857-l950, published by NAOP, and is currently working with Dr. Charles E. Beveridge and the Olmsted National Historic Site on the project to expand this material into an online data base. She is the author of articles about the Olmsted firm and their significant design projects, particularly for residential communities across the country. She wrote the opening chapter, "The American Park Movement" for Bold Vision: The Development of the Parks of Portland Maine, (1999). Additionally, she is currently preparing a critical biography of the life and work of John Charles Olmsted, stepson of Frederick Law Olmsted.
Susan Keeton
Houston, Texas
Ms. Keeton is a lifelong Houstonian. She graduated from Smith College in 1963. As a member of the River Oaks Garden Club, she has been involved in all aspects of the club’s supervision of the gardens created at Bayou Bend by Ima Hogg. Inspired by the 1992 NPS Historic Landscape Maintenance Workshop she served on the committee that recommended a Master Plan for the restoration of the gardens and then chaired the committee that oversaw the implementation of the Plan. Her work at Bayou Bend fostered involvement with other organizations that focus on historic landscape issues in Houston. She is a board member of The Friends of Hermann Park and served on the committee that selected Laurie Olin to produce a comprehensive plan for the park in 1995. In 2001 as a board member of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership she served on the search committee that chose The Thompson Group of Boston to develop a master plan for the bayou. She has been a lecturer in landscape history for Rice University’s School of Continuing Studies since 1998.
Brice Maryman ASLA
Seattle, Washington
Born and raised outside of Washington DC, Brice Maryman received his BA in English literature at Saint Mary's College of Maryland before conducting his master's work in landscape architecture at the University of Washington with a Certificate in Historic Preservation and Planning. He and his wife Bridgette live in Seattle, where he is a landscape architect at SvR Design Company which has an integrated approach that prioritizes environmentally responsible design and planning. A University of Washington lecturer since 2003, Brice co-authored the Seattle Landmarks nomination for Lawrence Halprin and Angela Danadjieva's Freeway Park. In 2006 he co-directed Open Space Seattle 2100 as an effort to build on the city's historic Olmsted legacy.
website: SvR Design Company
Peter R. McQuillan
New York, New York
Mr. McQuillan, a retired Sergeant Special Assignment with the New York City Police Department, received his B.A. in Public Administration from John Jay College. After a 20 year career with the NYPD, where he served in numerous positions at police headquarters as well as representing the NYPD as the Special Assistant to the Commissioner of the Office of Emergency Management during the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Peter has devoted himself to the study and patronage of landscape architecture and garden design. An avid gardener from childhood, he is a member of the Corporation of the New York Botanical Garden as well as the Horticultural Committee, and regularly volunteers at the NYBG for the Director of Curators and Plant Records. Peter is a member of the Terra Firma Society of the Westchester Land Trust, the Society of Fellows of the Garden Conservancy as well as a major donor to the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal Defense Fund, and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. With his partner Adam R. Rose, Peter is responsible for the installation of a new 8,000 square foot contemporary garden at AP Farm, a 47 acre estate in Northern Westchester, New York where he lives and supervises all landscape and horticultural activity.
Jo Ann Nathan
Chicago, Illinois
Ms. Nathan received a degree in education from the University of Michigan and an AS in landscape design and ornamental horticulture. As a landscape historian, Ms. Nathan has conducted research studies for historic parks in the park districts of Chicago and Highland Park, Illinois, and for numerous private clients. Moreover, she has many articles, lectures, and videos about Midwestern landscape heritage to her credit. She also served as director of the Jens Jensen Legacy Project for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Ms. Nathan's board affiliations include the Board of Visitors - School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan; Parkways Foundation, Chicago; Facing History and Ourselves, national board; and the Sculpture and Garden Committee, Lincoln Park Zoo.
Patricia O'Donnell FASLA,
AICP
Charlotte, Vermont,
Ms. O'Donnell received a master's degree in landscape architecture and urban planning from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Ms. O'Donnell's consulting firm, Heritage Landscapes (with offices in Charlotte, VT and Westport, CT), specializes in preservation planning and implementation for cultural landscapes. Ms. O'Donnell has an extensive resume of publications and lectures, and has represented the profession in both national and international forums.
website: Heritage Landscapes
Laurie Olin
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mr. Olin is Practice Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Olin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects. After earning a degree in architecture from the University of Washington, he worked in architecture and landscape offices in Seattle, New York, and London, as well as on transportation and urban design with Joseph Passoneau and Partners in Washington DC. Recent projects have included gardens for the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and the Getty Center in Los Angeles. For his work in landscape architecture, Mr. Olin has received fellowships from both the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy in Rome. He published a study of Seattle’s Skid Row Community in 1972, written frequently on the history and theory of landscape architecture for various journals, for which he won the Bradford Williams Medal in 1991. In 1998, Mr. Olin was awarded The American Academy of Arts and Letters award in Architecture.
website: Olin Partnership