Azzurra Cox: Landscapes of Belonging: Grounding Memory, Sowing Futures

The Department of Landscape Architecture is proud to welcome Azzurra Cox to present at the department's Landscape Lecture Series.

Speaker Bio:

Azzurra Cox comes to landscape architecture by way of her love of cities and her commitment to public space. As an Associate at Seattle-based GGN—founded in 1999 by Jennifer Guthrie, Shannon Nichol and Kathryn Gustafson, and recipient of the 2017 ASLA National Landscape Architecture Firm Award—, Azzura infuses her interest in social theory and the humanities into her projects, and believes in the power of landscape to shape and reflect collective social narratives. Azzurra brings a range of experiences in the worlds of design activism, publishing, and curation to her work, and she was named the 2016 National Olmsted Scholar by the Landscape Architecture Foundation for her research on African-American cultural landscapes in St. Louis. Azzurra holds an MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a BA in Social Studies from Harvard College. In addition to her work and research, Azzurra serves as Urban Design Commissioner on the Seattle Design Commission, reviewing all city capital-improvement projects.