Instructors – LARC 502 | Sensing Landscape

Daniel Roehr BCSLA, CSLA, AKB

Professor Daniel Roehr teaches Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. He is a licensed landscape architect in BC and Berlin and director of greenskins lab and Off Screen Studio. His current research focuses on creating “open access” climate resilience tools for landscape architects. Daniel authored the books “Multisensory Landscape Design: A Designer’s Guide for Seeing” (Routledge 2022) and coauthored “Living Roofs in Integrated Urban Water Systems” (Routledge 2015) and regularly publishes. Recent “open access” tools created under his supervision are the “stormwater calculation (LID) application 2021”, which was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, and the “landslide detection tool 2022”. He also runs an Instagram account which archives 30 years of his architectural and landscape architectural hand drawings to inspire students to continue to use hand drawing as a design and research tool additional to current digital modelling applications.

In 2013/14, he was a UBC Sustainability Research Fellow and was selected as a team member to compete designing the Canadian National Holocaust Memorial in Ottawa and in 2016 he received the UBC Killam Teaching Prize.

Daniel has practiced in Europe, North America, and Asia. From 1995 to 2000, he was project architect of the award-winning Daimler-Chrysler Green Roof Project, Potsdamer Platz, in Berlin, Germany. Before moving to Vancouver in 2006, he ran his own firm in Berlin from 1999 to 2007, and co-founded a firm in Shanghai in 2004.

Maren McBride BCSLA, CSLA, ASLA, EcoDistricts AP

Maren McBride is an Associate at DIALOG in Vancouver, B.C. and an Adjunct Professor at SALA and SCARP in addition to teaching at SFU’s renowned CITY Program. As an accomplished landscape architect, urban designer and planner, she draws from over a decade of broad experience working across North America on projects that span community master planning, parks and open space, urban plazas, sustainable development and large-scale infrastructure. Through a collaborative and pragmatic approach, she tackles complex urban issues and design challenges – balancing aesthetics, human experience, social equity and ecology to create spaces that are functional, flexible and inspired. She thrives in the complexity of multiple community scales, where her ability to think critically, communicate effectively, understand context and empower community-driven solutions benefits project vision and delivery.

Maren is a graduate of the landscape architecture program at the University of California, Davis, completed a master of community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia, and studied urban design at the Danish Institute of Study in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Karin England BCSLA, CSLA

Karin England was born in northern Canada, just 400 kilometers south of the arctic circle. Karin has had the opportunity to live and spend time in many of Canada’s diverse regions, from Vancouver to Halifax. Her family’s quarter section of aspen parkland in southern Alberta has always been her touchstone, and is the place where her sense of connection to land began. Building on work as an elementary school teacher, and training as a Master Gardener, Ms. England earned a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of British Columbia in 2006. Her graduation project look a restorative approach to hospital landscapes. While at UBC, Karin was proud to receive the American Society of Landscape Architects Student Award for Community Service together the other members of a student initiated and run Community Studio. Upon graduation, Ms. England became engaged in the profession working in both private practice and regional government. She has had the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, from large scale to intimate, from residential, commercial, urban and institutional work to large, nature-based parks. Projects of note include CSLA Regional Citation Award winning Roseline Sturdy Amphitheatre at the UBC Botanical Garden, and work on the SFU Trottier Observatory which was awarded a CSLA National Award of Excellence in 2017. Karin currently works at Metro Vancouver focusing on the design and development of new regional Parks, and supporting a variety of sustainable initiatives including Grow Green, a resource for local gardeners.

She holds Master of Teaching degree, and is an experienced educator. Since 2010, Ms. England has worked with students in the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the University of British Columbia as an Instructor and Adjunct Professor in a variety of courses.