Suzannah Churchill Drake, FAIA FASLA

Susannah C. Drake is a Principal at Sasaki. Prior to merging the firms Susannah founded DLANDstudio Architecture + Landscape Architecture pllc. Her work has received city, state, and national AIA and ASLA awards. Susannah was awarded the AIA Young Architects Award, Fellowship in the AIA, Fellowship in the ASLA, and was recognized as an Architectural League Emerging Voice. Susannah specializes in complex projects that require a synthesized, analytical, and research-based approach. Her large-scale planning work engages diverse systems to create ecologically and socially progressive projects that are rigorously researched, strategically planned, and beautifully designed.

Caroline Lewis

Caroline Lewis wants the world to wake up to the climate crisis.  Like the Irish author, William Butler Yeats, Lewis believes that education is less about FILLING PAILS and more about LIGHTING FIRES in people. Her strategy, then, is to light fires. Lewis founded the CLEO Institute in 2010 to help mobilize the masses in support of climate action. Recognizing the urgency of the climate data, Caroline shaped CLEO’s initiatives to build climate literacy and informed advocacy, top down and bottom up, simultaneously. Ultimately, the goal is to spur our economic and political engines to grasp the seriousness of the issue, and act with urgency.

Xavier Cortada

Xavier Cortada, Miami’s pioneer eco-artist, uses art’s elasticity to work across disciplines to engage communities in problem solving. Particularly environmentally focused, his work intends to generate awareness and action around climate change, sea level rise, and biodiversity loss. Over the past three decades, the Cuban-American artist has created art at the North and South poles and across 6 continents, including more than 150 public artworks, installations, collaborative murals and socially engaged projects. Cortada, who serves as the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for Miami-Dade County and University of Miami Professor of Practice, has been commissioned to create art for CERN, the White House, the World Bank, the Frost Art Museum, and Miami City Hall, among many other art, science, and government venues. Cortada received the Environmental Law Institute’s 2021 National Wetlands Award, was included in the 2022 GRIST 50, and delivered a TED Talk on the intersection of art and climate.

Friday, July 28th 

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM - Registration

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM – Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - Get Up to Date Laws & Rules for Florida (DBPR - pending,2 CEC, L&R)

11:00 - 11:30 AM - Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall 

11:15 AM - 2:15 PM - Behind the Scenes at the Hard Rock Hollywood Tour (DBPR - 13290, 1.5 CEC, OPT) Register Now

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM 

• Resiliency of Broward's Natural Habitats: West Lake to Weston (DBPR - 13281, 1.5 CEC, OPT)

• Nature, Ecology and Innovation: Jose Marti Park Adaptive Redesign (DBPR- 13279, 1.5 CEC, OPT)

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM 

• Student Research from Florida's Two Landscape Architect Programs (DBPR - Pending, 2 CECs, OPT)

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM -  Lunch in the Exhibit Hall 

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

• Keynote: Caroline Lewis (DBPR - pending, .5 CEC, OPT)

3:15 PM – 5:15 PM 

• ASLA Florida Business Meeting and Design Awards (DBPR - 12831, .5 CEC, OPT)

5:15 PM - 7:00 PM – ASLA Member and Awards Celebration  in the Exhibit Hall