Anne Weber

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.