Source: Dan Donelin, 785-532-5961, dandon@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Diane Potts, 785-532-1090, potts@k-state.edu
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
DENVER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT TO DISCUSS URBAN ECOLOGY AT K-STATE PRESENTATION
MANHATTAN -- Bill Wenk, an award-winning landscape architect in Denver known for transforming urban land and waterways, will present "Regionalism, Ecology and the City" at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in the Little Theatre of the Kansas State University Student Union.
The lecture, sponsored by K-State's College of Architecture, Planning and Design and funded by the student fine arts fee, is free and open to the public.
Wenk is founder and president of Wenk Associates Inc. of Denver. For more than 20 years, he has been involved in the restoration and redevelopment of urban river and stream corridors, the transformation of derelict urban land and the design of public parks and open spaces. He is recognized nationally for using storm-water runoff as a resource.
The firm's broad scope of work includes serving as principal designer for a $15 million renovation of Vail Village. Wenk also is the principal urban designer for the Menomonee River Valley Redevelopment in Milwaukee, where he is integrating a network of parks and open spaces, trails and a restored river corridor into a proposed 130-acre mixed-use development. He also developed the master plan for park lands at the 1,900-acre Lowry Air Force Base redevelopment near Denver.
Wenk is principal river planner for the restoration of the Los Angeles River and has worked on a mixed-use development and stream restoration for Bubbly Creek, a branch of the Chicago River.
Wenk received his bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from Michigan State University and his master's in landscape architecture from the University of Oregon. He is an adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture at University of Colorado in Denver and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Attendance at the lecture can be submitted by design professionals for continuing education credit; contact Diane Potts at potts@k-state.edu.