Astrid
Haryati, ASLA, CLARB
Assistant to the Mayor for Green Initiatives
Astrid
Haryati was appointed in early 2005 by Mayor
Richard M. Daley of Chicago as the Assistant
to the Mayor for Green Initiatives. Astrid’s
role is to promote Chicago to be the healthiest,
smartest and greenest city by initiating
and implementing comprehensive, yet practical,
environmental policies. This role requires
a new level of collaborative public and private
partnership and an advance stakeholders’ advocacy
to comprehensively embrace integrated urban
environment to include infrastructures, air
quality and stormwater.
Prior
to joining the Mayor’s Office, Astrid
was a Principal Landscape Architect at Teng & Associates,
Inc., leading an award winning planning and
landscape architecture team. Astrid's professional
works ranging from small to large planning
and design in the field of architecture,
urban design and landscape architecture,
with projects in Indonesia, Singapore, Australia,
Canada and the United States. She has received
awards and has won design competitions on
the above categories, and has participated
in several exhibitions. Astrid holds Landscape
Architecture registrations for the State
of Illinois and Commonwealth of Virginia,
and is CLARB certified.
Astrid
received her Bachelor of Architecture from
Institute of Technology at Bandung (ITB)
in Indonesia and received Master of Landscape
Architecture from University of Colorado
at Denver. She was a Faculty Member at the
ITB Architecture Department and at the ITB
Urban Design Center producing comprehensive
studies of Indonesia's urban developments.
She also serves as a Guests Critic at the
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Landscape
Urbanism Program and an Adjunct Associate
Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology
(IIT) Department of Architecture, assisting
the development of what will be the only
Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture
in the City of Chicago.
Astrid
continues to serve as the Illinois Chapter
American Society of Landscape Architects’ Education
Committee Chair, administering statewide
education in landscape architecture for members,
public at large, as well as allied professional
organizations. Her advocacy extends beyond
traditional landscapes to include transportation
corridor planning and design through a leadership
in statewide support for Context Sensitive
Solution.
Astrid
spoke at the first Security Design Coalition
Conference in 2003 for “Safe Spaces:
Designing for Security and Civic Values” advocating
sensible balance between security measures
and preservation of public access to public
places, and on a similar subject recently
at the 2005 Canadian Society of Landscape
Architects’ Annual Congress.
Links:
Astrid’s
role at the City of Chicago
City
of Chicago’s Environmental Initiatives
2004
Pedestrian Bridge Design Competition – 1st
place
2004
ILASLA Honor Award
