Anne Weber
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Anne Weber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University. Her research focuses on rural landscapes, particularly landscapes of extraction, production and conservation, as urgent sites of design in the context of climate change. Prior to Cornell, she worked at SCAPE Landscape Architecture on a range of projects, including Petrochemical America, Midtown Center Plaza, Hudson Riverport, Town Branch Commons and the Town Branch Water Walk, a podcast tour of a stream buried beneath a city. Her professional work has received both National and NY SARA Awards, NY ASLA Merit Awards, a Best of Design Honorable Mention Award from Architect’s Newspaper, and an APA KY Planning Award for Civic Engagement. Her research has received funding from the Water Resource Institute, Penny White Traveling Grant, Peter Walker Fellowship, as well as the Lewis Hine Documentary Fellowship from Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. She received her MLA with distinction from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and a BA in visual art from Yale University. Prior to Cornell, she taught courses and workshops at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the University of Kentucky, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
Awards & Honors
- 2020 ASLA-NY Merit Award for Midtown Center Plaza
- Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Honorable Mention Award for Outstanding Use of Technology: Civic Engagement, 2016, for Town Branch Water Walk
- National and NY Society of Registered Architects (SARA) Honor Award, 2016, for Hudson Riverport
Courses Taught
- LA 6940 Rural Adaptation Research Seminar
- LA 6010 Black Dirt Studio
- LA 6940 Thick Description: Tools and Methodologies for Representing Layered Sites
Contact Information
440 Kennedy Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
alw297 [at] cornell.edu
Education:
Master of Landscape Architecture
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts
Yale University