October 28 – 30, 2024
Resorts World Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES
October 28 – 30, 2024
Resorts World Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES
Mia Lehrer, FASLA founded Studio-MLA with a vision to improve quality of life through landscape. Her courageous approach to landscape design—distinguished for its advocacy of sustainable and people-friendly public places and catalytic work for a climate-appropriate future—has defined her as one of the great voices in modern-day landscape architecture. Drawing inspiration from geology and natural processes, she sparks the team’s inventive spirit to craft environments that foster human connection, unite communities, and restore ecological balance.
The studio’s reputation for creativity, pragmatism, and accountability spans a wide range of scales and geographies, from the master planning of cities to the design of intimate plazas and gardens. Mia has led the design and implementation of numerous significant private and public projects. These include the redevelopment of the Hollywood Park Racetrack and the creation of the new SoFi Stadium and associated parks, the Fair Park Community Park in Dallas, the revitalization of San Francisco’s historic Levi’s Plaza, the nature gardens at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, as well as various urban river-related initiatives like the Rio Tietê in São Paulo, the Los Angeles River Taylor Yard G2 Park, and habitat restoration and public access master planning along the Santa Ana River. With offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the studio, comprised of 50 talented individuals, has garnered diverse and award-winning commissions both in California and worldwide.
Ms. Lehrer has actively contributed to numerous academic, professional, and public sector advisory boards. Her notable appointments include serving as a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, appointed by President Barack Obama, and holding positions such as the Cultural Affairs Commission, the Zoning Advisory Committee, and the Mayor’s Design Advisory Panel in Los Angeles, as well as her current role as a Commissioner for the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power. She is a sought-after speaker on resilient landscape and urban design, environmental and sustainability issues, and designing for equity and inclusion in public processes. Her accomplishments have earned numerous accolades, including Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2023, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum’s 2021 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture, the LaGasse Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects, as well as Community Legacy Awards from the Los Angeles Business Council and the Westside Urban Forum. Originally from El Salvador, Ms. Lehrer holds a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2010.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Los Angeles Convention Center - West Hall, Concourse: 152
The Los Angeles River is one of the longest controlled waterways in the world. Roughly 50 miles in length, the watershed spans a wide swath of the Los Angeles basin, incorporating cities such as Burbank, Glendale, Downey, Compton, Long Beach, and Los Angeles into its ecosystem. In an era when we are struggling to navigate […]
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Los Angeles Convention Center - West Hall, Concourse: 151
SoFi Stadium at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California, is the NFL’s largest stadium at 3.1 million square feet. But this massive award-winning structure is more than a large sports and entertainment venue. Join this panel to learn about the development’s innovative design, climate-adaptive landscape, seismic-sensitive structural engineering, and the many ways it has generated prosperity in Inglewood.