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Department Lectures

Landscape Architecture Lectures

Each year, the Department of Landscape Architecture invites practitioners and researchers in landscape architecture and allying fields to present guest lectures as part of the Landscape Lecture Series.

Marvin I. Adleman Memorial Lectures

As part of the lecture series, the Department invites distinguished guests to present the Marvin I. Adleman Memorial Lecture, which honors former professor Marvin I. Adleman. Past presenters of the memorial lecture include:

  • Walter Hood, Creative Director & Founder, Hood Design Studio, 2021
  • Glenn LaRue Smith, Principal & Co-Founder, PUSH Studio, 2020
  • Michael Van Valkenburgh, Founder & Partner, MVVA Inc., 2018

Department Lectures

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Landscape Architecture Spring 2026 Lecture Series: Ken Smith
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Ken Smith, Principal of Ken Smith Workshop. This lecture is titled "Places Have Memory." This presentation sets out to present and discuss design practices and projects that challenge the basic...
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Landscape Architecture Spring 2026 Lecture Series: Cultivating Careers in LA Panel
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a panel discussion with Jackie Martinez, Jeff Caster, Steve Lefton, and Ujijji Davis Williams. This panel will be discussing cultivating careers in landscape architecture. Jackie Martinez is a landscape architect...
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Landscape Architecture Spring 2026 Lecture Series: Caitlin Blanchfield
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Caitlin Blanchfield, Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Architecture at AAP. This lecture is titled "Land, Environment, Impact: Environmental Review and the Politics of Protection on Indigenous...
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Landscape Architecture Fall 2025 Lecture Series: Anya Domlesky
Join us in 461 Kennedy Hall for a lecture with Anya Domlesky, Director of Research with SWA Group. This lecture is titled "Infrastructure Adaptation." Anya Domlesky explores the breadth of how designers have reworked transportation...
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Landscape Architecture Fall 2025 Lecture Series: Kate Kennen
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Kate Kennen, founder and president of Offshoots. This lecture is titled "Scaling up! Landscapes of Productive Planting Exploration." The work at Offshoots aims to alleviate plantings of their...

LABash Lectures

In 2019, Cornell University was selected to host the 50th edition of the LABash Student Conference. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the planned in-person conference was postponed to 2021. The 2021 edition of the conference was held virtually, allowing for a range of speakers globally to discuss the conference's theme, "Compacted Grounds."

All lectures from the conference are available to view.

LABash 2021 Keynote Lectures

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Kofi Boone, FASLA

Joseph D. Moore Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

NC State University, College of Design

The Commons: Land, Property, Information, and Landscape Agency

 

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Diana Fernandez Bibeau

Senior Associate, Sasaki

Heterogenous Futures

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Signe Nielsen, FASLA

Principal, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects

Equity by Design

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Dr. Diane Jones Allen, FASLA

Program Director and Professor

University of Texas, Arlington

Dr. Austin Allen

Associate Professor of Practice

University of Texas, Arlington

Landscape: Reclaiming Sustainability and Resilience

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