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Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2020
This year, two members from Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ¡¯s Diversity Summit community worked to shape activities and develop resources, which include a letter to the broader Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ member community that has inspired Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ¡¯s 2020 celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.
We invite you to read What Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Means to Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ and Us by Masako Ikegami, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, SWA Group, and Gloria Lau, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, Stantec.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Webinar Series
America's Chinatowns: Identity, Belonging, and the Future of Place
Ernie Wong, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, Jenn Low, PLA, Yu-Chung Li, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, and Jim Lee, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ led a four-part webinar series about the past, present, and future of Chinatowns and drew analogies to other neighborhoods like them that are subject to the ongoing forces of gentrification driving neighborhood change.
Special Features
Learn more about the remarkable story of 1982 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Award winner, Shinji Nakagawa, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, and his introduction to landscape architecture during the war years in .
of the Hmong Cultural Plaza, an open-air pavilion and stone garden with the Phalen Regional Park China Garden. The Hmong Cultural Plaza is an important element in the China Garden because Minnesota Hmongs claim Changsha as their ancestral home, and a large Hmong community live in the Phalen Park area.
Diversity Summit participant, Cheeneng Yang, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ shares more about Hmong culture with Celebrating Hmong People and Culture.
Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Interviews with Asian American and Asian Landscape Architects
Jie Hu, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
Mikyoung Kim, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
Joyce Lee, FAIA, LEED Fellow
Hitesh Mehta, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
Kotchakorn Voraakhom, International Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
Kongjian Yu, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ
Asian American Landscape Architecture Pioneers
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