Friday, November 14   Discussion Panels In addition to the three main topic panels, each speaker will also participate in one of two discussion panels. These 45-minute panels are intended to promote spirited discussion between the speakers and the audience.
Topic	Speakers
Moving Beyond the Tabula Rasa The role of the landscape architect operating in a modern style in a post-tabula rasa age.	Andrea Cochran Walter Hood Doug Reed Peter Lindsay Schaudt Ken Smith
Technology in the Second Wave Function as a design idea explores the effects of new technologies on modern design today.	Tom Oslund Mark Rios Martha Schwartz Michael van Valkenburgh Thomas Woltz

Feral Geometry: A Narrative of Modern Materials on the Bank of Turtle Creek, Dallas, TX
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., landscape architects.
(Photo: Carolyn Brown)

Framework

Conference curators Jane Amidon and Charles Birnbaum will provide an overview and present the structure for the day.

Friday’s program will consist of three panels, each with three panelists who will each give thirty-minute written presentations in their subject area. Panelists have been invited to speak about particular topics because of potential resonances between their work and the first generation of modernists. Importantly, the presentations are not intended to be an overview of the panelist’s work, but instead, a well considered response to a specific topic. It is expected that panelists will use examples from their own practice to substantiate their points; inclusion of specific precedents or influences from first-wave modernism is encouraged.