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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 Fall 2025 Marvin Adelman Lecture: Günther Vogt
Join us at the Film Forum at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts for a special evening with Günther Vogt, Founding Director of Vogt, as he presents a lecture titled "Water." We are honored to welcome Zaš Brezar, editor-in-chief of Landezine...
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Landscape Architecture Fall 2025 Lecture Series: Christopher Kroner
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Christopher Kroner, Principal of MASS. This lecture is titled "Finding Your Fall Kill." Christopher will be discussing how embedded design practice in Poughkeepsie shows promise for unlocking new...
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Landscape Architecture Fall 2025 Lecture Series: Thomas Woltz
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Thomas Woltz, Senior Principal. This lecture is titled "Productive Landscapes: Balancing Ecology, Culture, and Agriculture." Over the past two decades, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects (NBW)...
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Landscape Architecture Fall 2025 Lecture Series: Thomas J. Campanella
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Thomas J. Campanella, MLA ’91, FAAR ‘11. This lecture is titled "Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano." This lecture will tell the largely forgotten story of...

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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