SAT-C07: Inside the LA Studio—Spackman Mossop Michaels

Saturday, October 11, 2025

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM CT

Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Room R06-R07

1.25 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, NY/non-HSW, FL

Guest Speaker(s)

Wes Michaels, ASLA, PLA, LEED AP

Principal
Spackman Mossop Michaels
New Orleans, Louisiana
Emily Bullock, ASLA, PLA

Principal
Spackman Mossop Michaels
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tracey Armitage (she/her/hers)

Studio Manager
Spackman Mossop Michaels
New Orleans, Louisiana
Liz Camuti, ASLA, PLA (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
Tulane University and Spackman Mossop Michaels
New Orleans, Louisiana
Elizabeth Mossop

Director
Spackman Mossop Michaels

Moderator(s)

Alexa Bush, ASLA, PLA

Director, Planning & Development Dept
City of Detroit
Detroit, MI

Spackman Mossop Michaels is a landscape architecture practice with studios in New Orleans and Sydney. We design landscape strategies that respond deeply to context—ecological, cultural, and economic—integrating people and the environment. Our firm is dedicated to exploring new ways of helping communities adapt to climate change.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand how the origins of the firm are rooted in post-disaster planning and design.
Analyze how a process, based in searching and experimentation, leads to boundary pushing in the types of projects landscape architects lead.
Understand the community-based design approach to climate adaptation planning and how involving local input leads to more effective and successful design solutions.
Explore predictions for the future of our profession.