School of Design
Landscape Architecture: Faculty: 2003 - 2004
Last modified: 09.19.03
Standing
Anita Berrizbeitia
James Corner
John Dixon Hunt
Anuradha Mathur
C. Dana Tomlin
Practice
Laurie D. Olin
Adjunct
Paolo
L. Bürgi
Peter
Latz
Cora
L. Olgyay
Margie
Ruddick
Lucinda R. Sanders
Lecturers & Part-time Faculty:
2003 - 2004
Lindsay
Falck
Chris Hoxie
Wookju Jeong
Kate John-Alder
Ed Keller
Sébastien
Marot
Sandro Marpillero
Victoria Marshall
Deborah
Marton
Keith
McPeters
Paul
Meyer
Catherine Mosbach
Ellen Neises
Jonathan Reo
David Robertson
Rodney Robinson
Rhett Russo
David Ruy
Katrin Scholz-Barth
Eric
Schuldenfrei
Neil Smith
Nanako Umemoto
Dennis Wedlick
Sarah Willig
Mei Wu
Emeriti
Nicholas Muhlenberg
Daniel Rose
Landscape Architecture: Faculty
Anita Berrizbeitia
Associate professor Anita Berrizbeitia
joined the faculty in 1996. She received a B.A. from Wellesley and an M.L.A.
from Harvard. Berrizbeitia teaches design studios, theory, workshop and the
landscape studio in the Architecture undergraduate program. She was assistant
professor of landscape architecture at Harvard GSD from 1993 to 1998. As an
associate with Child Associates, Inc. Berrizbeitia focused on the design and
building of landscapes ranging from urban-scaled projects such a North Link
Park in Battery Park City and D.W. Field Park in Brockton, Massachusetts,
to a wide range of private commissions. Her work has received several ASLA
and BSLA awards. Her research interests focus on the productive aspects of
landscapes, particularly those of modern and contemporary landscape architecture.
Her essays have been published in A+U, Daniel Urban Kiley The Early Gardens
(Princeton Architectural Press), Recovering Landscape (Princeton Architectural
Press), Roberto Burle Marx: Landscapes Reflected (Princeton Architectural
Press), and CASE: DOWNSVIEW (Prestel). She is co-author, with Linda Pollak,
of InsideOutside: Between Architecture and Landscape (1999).
Email: berrizbe@pobox.upenn.edu
Adjunct professor since 1997, Paolo Bürgi received his Diploma in Landscape Architecture and Planning from the Engineering School of Rapperswil, Switzerland in 1975, taking first prize. While spending time abroad exploring other cultures, he had several encounters with Luis Barragan, winner of the Pritzker Prize. Bürgi is a former board member of the Federation of Swiss Landscape Architects and serves as critic and juror. He works in public and private sectors, in mainly concerned with open space planning, building-related open space design, and exploring and researching artistic values. He has presented papers in Canada, USA, and widely in Europe. Essays and projects have been published in a number of international publications, and he continues to lecture internationally. His projects include the August Piccard Space in Sierre, Switzerland, and the recent Dardada Mountain Revitalization project in Locarno, Switzerland. Bürgi has received prizes in several national and international competitions, including the Aspan Award for the recovery of the Motto Grande Quarry in 1989, the JMG Prize in Excellence for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Visual Resource Management in 1999, and a Landscape Architecture competition in the city of Helsinki, Finland. His practice is based in Camorino, Switzerland.
Professor
James Corner joined the faculty in 1989. He was named department chair in
spring 2000. He received a B.A. with first class honors from Manchester Metropolitan
University and an M.L.A. and U.Des. Certificate from PENN. He teaches design
studios and courses in media and theory. He is the author, with photographer
Alex MacLean, of Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (1996), which
received the AIA International Book of the Year Award and the ASLA Award of
Honor. He is also the editor of Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary
Landscape Architecture (1999). He is the 2000 recipient of the Daimler-Chrysler
Design Award for Innovative Design; the 2000 recipient of the Architectural
League of New York "Voices" Award; the 1995 recipient of the G.
Holmes Perkins Award for Distinguished Teaching and Innovation in Methods
of Instruction; and the first holder of the Jens Jensen Professorship in Landscape
and Urbanism at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996. He has also
taught seminars and studios at Columbia, Princeton, the Royal Danish Academy,
and the KTH in Stockholm. He is currently principal with architect Stan Allen
of FIELD OPERATIONS, a landscape, architectural, and urban design practice
based in Philadelphia and New York. His design projects have won numerous
awards and have been exhibited internationally.
Email: corner@pobox.upenn.edu
John Dixon Hunt
Professor
John Dixon Hunt joined the faculty in 1994 and served as department chair through
June 2000. He earned a B.A. and M.A. at King’s College, Cambridge, and
a Ph.D. from Bristol University. He was the former Director of Studies in Landscape
Architecture at Dumbarton Oaks. He is the author of numerous articles and books
on garden history and theory, including a catalogue of the landscape drawings
of William Kent, Garden and Grove, and Gardens and the Picturesque.
He edits two journals, Word & Image and Studies in the
History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. Current interests focus
upon landscape architectural theory, the development of garden design in the
city of Venice, modern(ist) garden design, and ekphrasis. He is the inaugural
series editor of the new Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture, (University
of Pennsylvania Press), in which was published his own theoretic study of landscape
architecture, Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory
(1999). In May 2000 he was named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters
by the French Ministry of Culture.Email: jdhunt@pobox.upenn.edu
Peter Latz
Adjunct professor Peter Latz joined the faculty in 2000. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the Technical University of Munich, and subsequently did postgraduate studies in urban planning at the RWTH Aachen. From 1968 until 1973, he taught at the Academie for Bouwkunst in Maastricht. From1973 until 1983 he was professor of landscape architecture at the University of Kassel. Since 1983, he has been professor and chair of landscape architecture and planning at the Technical University Munich-Weihenstephan. Principal, with his wife Anneliese, of Latz and Partners in Kranzberg, Germany, he has produced a range of large and significant projects in Europe, most notably the hugely successful Duisburg Park. His work has been published and exhibited internationally, and he continues to work on a wide range of projects, from urban and regional planning to large-scale landscape architecture to small open spaces. His research is in the field of alternative technologies connected with the long-term reclamation, development and maintenance of damaged landscapes. Latz was the recipient of the Grande Medaille d’Urbanisme from the Académie d’Architecture in Paris, June 2001; and received the first European prize for Landscape Architecture Rosa Barba, Barcelona June 2000.
Anuradha Mathur
Anuradha Mathur is associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture. She graduated from the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad, in 1986 and after practicing for several years as an architect, received her M.L.A. from Penn in 1991. She is co-author of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (Yale University Press, 2001). Her design firm Mathur/da Cunha received the Young Architects award for 2000 by the Architectural League of New York. Her awarded projects are part of a publication by Princeton architectural Press and the Architectural League titled, Second Nature. Mathur’s work is directed toward design and the representation of landscapes as shifting and dynamic. Mathur is currently investigating the landscape of the Deccan Plateau in South India, providing the basis for an innovative design strategy for the city of Bangalore. Email: mathur2@pobox.upenn.edu
Cora L. Olgyay
Adjunct assistant professor Cora Olgyay received her B.A. and M.L.A. (1985) from the University of Pennsylvania and management diploma from The Wharton School. She is a registered landscape architect, formerly in practice with Hanna/Olin Ltd. (the Olin Partnership since 1996). Her professional experience ranges from large scale urban planning to detailed construction documentation. Projects include the National Gallery Sculpture Garden on the Mall in Washington, DC, Hancock Park in Los Angeles, Robert P. Wagner Park at the southern tip of Battery Park City in NY, and Canary Wharf in London. As an independent practitioner, her current work focuses on accommodating landscape systems in urban environments, and the interface of technology and design. She was appointed adjunct assistant professor in 1997 and has been active in the LARP workshop sequence and design studios since 1994.
Laurie D. Olin
Laurie D. Olin was named practice professor of landscape architecture in July 1998. He received a B.Arch. from the University of Washington. He is the former chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard and a founding partner of Hanna/Olin Ltd. (the Olin Partnership since 1996), one of the world’s most distinguished firms practicing in the fields of landscape architecture and urban design. He is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, an American Academy of Rome Fellow, an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 1999 Wyck-Strickland Award recipient, and inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (1999). Currently a trustee of the American Academy in Rome, and recipient of the 1998 Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is author of Transforming the Commonplace (1996) and Across the Open Field, Essays drawn on the English Landscape, (1999).
Margie Ruddick
Margie Ruddick was appointed adjunct assistant professor in 1998. She received her B.A. from Bowdoin College (1979) and M.L.A. from Harvard University (1988). Ruddick worked from 1988 to 1995 as a partner in Heintz/Ruddick Associates, designing urban landscape projects in New York City such as the recreation park at Battery Park City, the Riverside Park Waterfront, and Stuyvesant Cove. Her current practice, formed in 1995, has focused on issues of water conservation and sustainability in landscape planning and design. Whether proposing sustainable alternatives to traditional residential landscape design or designing an urban waterfront park that filters water through constructed wetlands, her work considers the natural systems of the site as a starting point for thinking about a project. Her current work with sustainable real estate development in Colorado, New Mexico, and in India and China is at the leading edge of environmentally responsible landscape planning and design. Her design for a 2,000-acre resort in Maharashtra, India, and a lake revival nearby are collaborative efforts that bring architects, planners, and scientists together in the design process. Her schematic design for the Living Water Park in Chengdu, Sichuan, has won the Waterfront Center’s design award for 1998, and the 1999 design award from the journal Places and the Environmental Design Research Association.
Lucinda R. Sanders
Adjunct associate professor Lucinda Sanders has been teaching on the faculty since 1995, and was appointed to the current rank in 2003. She received her B.A. from Wells College (1975), and M.L.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1989). She has been a landscape architect with the Olin Partnership in Philadelphia since 1980 and is presently a principal with the firm. Her landscape architectural projects range from institutional, academic and corporate, to master planning, to urban plazas, residential gardens and parks. Recent projects include the Bethel Performing Arts Center, Bethel, NY; Hudson Yards, New York City; Bard College Master Plan, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; One Pennsylvania Plaza, Philadelphia; and the Museum of Jewish Heritage park in New York City.
C. Dana Tomlin
Professor
Dana Tomlin joined the faculty in 1991. He received a B.S. from the University
of Virginia, a M.L.A. from Harvard University, and holds a Ph.D. from Yale
University. Prior to coming to PENN, he was on the faculty at the Ohio State
University School of Natural Resources and at Harvard GSD. He is a world-renowned
expert on geographic information systems (GIS). He is author of Geographic
Information Systems and Cartographic Modeling, developer of the Map
Analysis Package software, and originator of Map Algebra. His current research
interests involve the use of digital cartographic techniques in spatial pattern
analysis and land use allocation. Tomlin was a 2002 recipient of a Lindback
Award for Distinguished teaching.
Email: tomlins@tiac.net
Cartographic Modeling Website: http://apollo.gsfa.upenn.edu
Lecturers
& Part-time Faculty: 2003-
2004
Lindsay Falck received
his B.Arch. (1956) and Master of Urban and Regional Planning (1972) from the
University of Cape Town. He is currently a full-time lecturer in the School
of Design, teaching in the Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Landscape
Architecture departments. He has anarchitectural practice and consultancy in
West Philadelphia.
Chris Hoxie
received his B.A. in architecture and sculpture from Bennington College (1992),
and his M.Arch. from Harvard University (1997). He is currently a project designer
and media consultant based in New York City.
Wookju Jeong received
his B.L.A. from Seoul National University (1994); and M.L.A. from University
of Pennsylvania (1999). He is currently a landscape architect with FIELD OPERATIONS
in Philadelphia. Previous positions have been with WRT and the Olin Partnership.
Kate John-Alder
received her B.A in biology from Oberlin College (1975); M.S. in botany from
Pennsylvania State University (1978); and B.S. in landscape architecture from
Rutgers University (1991). She is currently an associate partner with the Olin
Partnership in Philadelphia.
Ed Keller received
his M.Arch. from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture (1994),
and his B.A. in music from Simon’s Rock College of Bard (1985). He has
taught at Columbia, Parsons, Pratt Institute, Bennington and Rensselaer. He
is the founder and creative director of a.CHRONO, a design
research and consulting practice in New York City.
Sébastien
Marot is general delegate of the Société Française
des Architectes in Paris where he has been organizing annual series of lectures
focused on the history and actuality of architecture. He is also chief editor
of Le Visiteur, a critical magazine of architecture and landscape, which he
has created at the SFA. He currently teaches on these topics at the École
d’architecture, de la ville et des territories in Marne-La-Vallée
(Paris), the Institut d’architecture in the University of Geneva, in Switzerland,
and at the Graduate School of the Architectural Association in London (program
of Landscape Urbanism).
Sandro
Marpillero received his M.Arch. from the Architecture Institute of
Venice, IAUV, (1979); and his M.Sc. in architecture and building design from
Columbia University (1983). He is an adjunct associate professor in the at Columbia
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; and a visiting critic
in the Department of Architecture at Harvard. He is a partner at Marpillero
Pollak Architects in New York City.
Victoria
Marshall received her B.L.A. from the University of New South Wales
(1992), and her M.L.A. and Urban Design Certificate from the University of Pennsylvania
(1997). She is currently practicing as a landscape architect in New York City.
Deborah
Marton received
her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1984), a J.D. from New York University
School of Law (1989), and an M.L.A. from the
Harvard University Graduate School of Design (1995). Her professional experience
includes a position as program manager for the Natural Resources Group of the
N.Y.C. Department of Parks & Recreation. She is currently principal of Deborah
Marton Landscape in New York City.
Charles McGloughlin received
his B.A. English literature, Eastern College (1992); and M.Arch., University
of Pennsylvania (1999). Currently he is an architect in Philadelphia.
Keith McPeters
received his B.S. in architecture (1981) and his M.L.A. (1995) from the University
of Virginia. He is currently a designer and project manager with the Olin Partnership
in Philadelphia, a position he has held since 1995. Prior to the position at
Olin he was a landscape architect with Michael Graves, Architect in Princeton.
Paul Meyer received
his B.Sc. in landscape horticulture from Ohio State University; his M.Sc. in
plant science from University of Delaware, Longwood Program (1976); and his
Diploma in biology and plant taxonomy from University of Edinburgh (1987). Currently
he is the F. Otto Haas Director of the Morris Arboretum of the University of
Pennsylvania. He has traveled extensively and his plant exploration endeavors
have led to cooperative ventures at an international level.
Catherine Mosbach received
her DPLG in landscape architecture from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure
de Paysage de Versailles (1986). She was the founder and editor of Pages Paysages
in 1987. She has won various competitions and prizes. Among her principal built
works are: the archeaological park of Solutré, the Floral Canal Promenade
at St-Denis, and the right bank at Bourdeaux. She currently has her own practice
in Paris.
Ellen Neises received
her B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University (1988); her Masters in public policy
from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1990); and her M.L.A.
from the University of Pennsylvania (2002). She is currently a landscape architect
in New York City.
David J. Robertson received
his B.S. in zoology from Ohio University (1974),and a Ph.D. in biology from
the University of Pittsburgh (1981). He serves as executive director of the
Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, a 700-acre research natural area in
suburban Philadelphia.
Rodney Robinson received
his B.S. in agriculture from the University of Delaware (1975), and his M.L.A.
from the University of Pennsylvania (1978). Prior to founding his current practice,
Rodney Robinson Landscape Architects in 1995 in Wilmington, he was a partner
with CLRdesign, Inc. in Philadelphia. He also teaches an advanced landscape
design course in the Longwood Gardens Professional Gardener Training Program.
Jonathan
Reo received his B.Arch. from New York Institute of Technology (1990);
and M.Arch., from the University of Pennsylvania (1996). He is currently an
architect with Billie Tsien and Tod Williams Architects in New York City. Prior
to this position he was with Helfand Myerberg Gugenheimer Architects.
Rhett
Russo received his Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M
University (1991), and his M.Arch. from Columbia University (1995). He currently
has an architectural practice in Brooklyn and is a project leader for Reiser+Umemoto
RUR Architecture PC in New York City.
David
Ruy received
his his B.A. and B.S. degrees in philosophy, history of mathematics, and comparative
literature from St. John’s College in Annapolis (1991); and his M.Arch.
from Columbia University (1996). He has taught at Princeton University School
of Architecture and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning
and Preservation. He is currently a partner with Ruy Klein Architecture in
New York City.
Katrin Scholz-Barth received
her B.S. and M.S. in civil and environmental engineering from the University
of Rostock (1992) in Germany. She was the
director of sustainable design for the HOK Planning Group, a business unit
of Hellmuth, Obata, and Kassabaum in Washington, DC from 1999 to 2003. She
is a nationally recognized expert in green roof technology and is currently
a consultant in Washington, DC.
Eric Schuldenfrei
received his B.Arch. from Cornell University (1997). He is a digital media
consultant and designer, based in New York City, whose work focuses on the
relationship between animation, architecture and art.
He also teaches at Princeton University.
Neil Smith Neil Smith received
his B.Sc. from the University of St. Andrews (1977), and his Ph.D. from The
Johns Hopkins University (1982). He is currently Distinguished Professor of
Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center and Hunter College; and
Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the City University
of New York. His most recent book is American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer
and the Prelude to Globalization (2002).
Nanako Umemoto received
her B.A. in urban design and landscape design from Osaka University of Art
in Japan (1975), and her B.Arch. from The Cooper Union (1983). She is a founder
and principal of Reiser+Umemoto RUR Architecture PC in New York City. She
is also an adjunct assistant professor of architecture at Columbia University.
Dennis Wedlick received a B.Arch. from Syracuse
University (1983). Following twelve years as an architect with Philip Johnson,
he founded Dennis Wedlick Architects in New York in 1992. He also teaches
at Parson’s School of Architecture.
Sarah Willig received
her A.B. in geology from Princeton University (1983), and a Ph.D. in geology
from the University of Pennsylvania (1988). Her current work focuses on wetland
studies and rare plant investigations in the Delaware Valley area.
Mei Wu
received her B.F.A. in art history from Ohio State University (1978);
her M.F.A. in choreography from Sarah Lawrence College (1983); and her M.L.A.
from the University of Pennsylvania (1997). She has held positions as a landscape
architect with Hargreaves Associates in Cambridge, Paolo Bürgi in Switzerland,
and most recently with Robert A.M. Stern in New York City.
Emeriti:
Nicholas
Muhlenberg is
associate professor emeritus of landscape architecture. He received his B.S.F.
(1949) and M.F. (1952) from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. in economy
(1957) and Ph.D. (1959) from Yale University.
Daniel
Rose
Dan
Rose received his B.S in anthropology (1965) and M.S. in sociology (1968)
from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and his Ph.D. in anthropology
from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1973). As professor of landscape
architecture at Penn he taught in the areas of ethnography, cultural landscape,
corporations, and nature and culture. He was promoted to professor emeritus
in 1998.
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