These advanced elective studios provide opportunities for focused exploration of particular themes in contemporary landscape architecture. Important emerging and accomplished designers, often from divergent points-of-view, interests and backgrounds, are invited to run these studios. Collaborative options (between Landscape and the Departments of Architecture or City Planning) are sometimes offered across the School. In addition to our own faculty who offer some of these studios (Corner, da Cunha, Fabiani Giannetto, Gouverneur, Marcinkoski, Mathur, M'Closkey, Neises, Olin, Pevzner, Sanders, Tomlin, Van Eyck, and Weller), international visitors have included Valerio Morabito (Italy), Paolo Burgi (Switzerland), Peter Latz (Munich), Catherine Mosbach and Bernard Lassus (Paris), Claudia Taborda (Lisbon), Martin Rein-Cano (Berlin) Peter Beard (London), Alessandro Tagliolini (Italy), Stanislaus Fung and Peter Connolly (Australia). New York and Boston based elective studio critics have included Mark Thomann, David Maestres, Nanako Umemoto/Neil Smith, Sylvia Benedito, Sandro Marpillero, Nicholas Quennell, Chris Reed, Ken Smith, Charles Waldheim, Dennis Wedlick, Lee Weintraub, James Wines; as well as Perry Kulper from Los Angeles. Local guest critics have included Trevor Lee/Ari Miller/Judy Venonsky, Keith Kaseman, Carol and Colin Franklin, Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, Margie Ruddick and former associate professor Anita Berrizbeitia.
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