TCLF’s latest conference, Second Wave of Modernism IV: Making Space within Place, was held on October 4, 2019, in the Horchow Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art. The conference featured several Dallas-based experts who were joined by others from throughout the United States. The topics were equally varied and timely, focusing on the role that landscape architects have played in laying the foundation for today’s planning and design work (exploring several iconic projects completed in the Dallas Arts District over the past 35 years); city projects that balance design against natural and cultural values, and the imperative to deal with climate change; how a public-private partnership was able to facilitate the development of priority parks in the urban core; and recent innovations in creative management and stewardship. To learn more about the conference, please visit: https://tclf.org/second-wave-modernism-iv-making-space-within-place-conference
Setting the Stage: Creating a Shared Language for the City’s Landscape Architecture
Peter Ker Walker, Principal, (firm of) Peter Ker Walker
Born in Scotland, Peter Ker Walker received his Diploma in Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art in 1960. In 1958 and 1959 he worked for Swedish architects Jaenecke and Samuelson before moving to the U.S. to study landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned an M.L.A. there in 1962 and then moved to Charlotte, Vermont, to join the Office of Dan Kiley. In 1963 Walker took a brief hiatus and worked in London for Sir William Holford and Partners before returning to Kiley’s office, where he became a partner in 1967. Walker continued working with Kiley for another twenty years as the firm became Kiley Tyndall Walker and later, Kiley Walker. In 1986 he embarked upon his own private practice in Burlington, Vermont.
Walker has been involved in a variety of projects ranging from residential to resort developments, plazas, and large-scale regional parks. He completed master plan designs for the University of Kent in London and the National Planning Commission of Canberra in Australia and designed aquariums in Egypt, Singapore, and Korea, a casino in Arizona, and an addition to the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. His work includes commissions in France, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, The Netherlands, and the U.S.
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