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2025 Philip Hanson Hiss Award Annual Lecture Given by Honoree OLIN
Join us for the Annual Philip Hanson Hiss Award Lecture given by Richard Roark, ASLA, AICP, Chief Purpose Officer and Partner at OLIN, entitled, "Time & Place: Bad Romances and Creative Realities." Architecture Sarasota’s prestigious annual award honors today’s pioneers and champions of innovative design within the global built environment and commemorates the legacy of Philip Hanson Hiss III (1910-1988). This year, landscape architecture and urban design practice OLIN will receive the award, recognized for their transformative landscapes that enrich communities and connect culture with the living world, including the recent revitalization of Sarasota’s Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, a 2024 TIME’s World’s Greatest Place.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Richard’s work spans a range of scales and typologies, focused on expanding the civic capacity of the landscape. Projects such as the competition-winning design for Hunts Point under the Rebuild by Design initiative, Dilworth Park in Philadelphia, and a strategic plan for Detroit’s historic Eastern Market exemplify a practice focused on sustainable, economical and well-crafted public design. Richard is currently completing work for a waterfront pavilion at Sojourner Truth Park along the Hudson River, developing a sea level rise social and environmental justice plan for the communities of Caño Martín Peña and realizing an innovative flood mitigation plan for the NYCHA communities of Red Hook in Brooklyn. Richard serves on the board for Studio Ludo, an innovative play research non-profit, and regularly provides pro-bono design services through Philadelphia’s Community Design Collaborative. Richard began his studies in landscape architecture at Auburn University, where he earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design and then a Master of Landscape Architecture. He first joined OLIN in 2001 upon receiving his Master of Community Planning. He has served as an invited guest juror at Arizona State University, Auburn University, Temple University and University of Pennsylvania, and is a past member of Auburn University’s Landscape Advisory Council.
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