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Department Events & Lectures

Julia Czerniak portrait

Lecture

Julia Czerniak, Fall 2026 Lecture Series: The Resilient Campus
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture by Julia Czerniak, The Resilient Campus. This lecture is part of the Department of Landscape Architecture's fall 2026 lecture series, How Can Landscape Architecture Have Actual Agency? Julia's lecture...
  • Landscape
  • Landscape Architecture
Julie Bargmann Portrait

Lecture

Join us in the Film Forum at The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts for a lecture by Julie Bargmann, DIG. This lecture is the Department of Landscape Architecture's Marvin Adelman Lecture as well as a part of the fall 2026 lecture series...
  • Landscape
  • Landscape Architecture
Martin Rein-Cano Portrait

Lecture

Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture by Martin Rein-Cano, Zeitgeist. This lecture is part of the Department of Landscape Architecture's fall 2026 lecture series, How Can Landscape Architecture Have Actual Agency? Celebrating the constant...
  • Landscape
  • Landscape Architecture
Jill Desimini portrait

Lecture

Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture by Jill Desimini, From Fallow: Past, Present, and Future of Abandonment. This lecture is part of the Department of Landscape Architecture's fall 2026 lecture series, How Can Landscape Architecture Have...
  • Landscape
  • Landscape Architecture
Panelists portraits

Lecture

Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with our discussion panel guests Michael Grove (principal of Sasaki), Karen Lutsky (assistant professor, Cornell), Matt McMahon (assistant professor, Cornell), and Emma Silverblatt (assistant professor...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape

Department News

Matt McMahon

Spotlight

Meet our faculty: Matt McMahon
Academic focus: The assembly of landscape Research summary: I research the various ways landscapes are assembled, grounding design and construction practices within the materials and labor of our time and place, as well as the values, histories...
  • Landscape Architecture
Students and faculty from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’  Department of Landscape Architecture and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy are helping the City of Ithaca assess and improve the city's park system.

News

Students and faculty will help the city transform its parks and their care – with new landscaping features and a proposed maintenance plan and governance structure.

  • Landscape Architecture
Students walk on the Ag Quad

News

With the end of another academic year in sight, we’d like to recognize the CALS class of 2026. Throughout their Cornell journey, our students explored purpose‑driven science, cultivated their passions and built meaningful connections. Guided by...
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment
  • Animal Science
Karen Lutsky landscape

Spotlight

Academic focus: Resilient landscapes and landscape laboratories Research summary: My work explores how landscape architects and designers might better design “with” changing landscapes across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Over the...
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Landscape
Ribas Finalist

Report

News

We are thrilled to announce that Cornell Landscape Architecture has been named a finalist for the Ribas Piera International University Prize 2025, part of the 13th Barcelona International Landscape Biennial. The award ceremony will be held on...
  • Landscape Architecture