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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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Lecture

Landscape Architecture Spring 2025 Series, Expanded Practices: Jon Shinkfield
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Jon Shinkfield, Founding Director of REALMstudios. This lecture is titled "Edge & Center: Decolonizing the Garden." The art of practice arises and emerges from the role of practice itself, with...
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Landscape Architecture Spring 2025 Series, Expanded Practices: Aroussiak Gabrielian
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Aroussiak Gabrielian, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California and Founding Principal of foreground design agency. This lecture is titled "Staging Encounters with Landscape Matter." For...
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Landscape Architecture Spring 2025 Series, Expanded Practices: Elizabeth Meyer
Join us in 175 Warren Hall for a lecture with Elizabeth Meyer, Inaugural Faculty Director of the University of Virginia's transdisciplinary Morven Sustainability Lab. This lecture is titled "Unsettling Sustainability. Land labs as Experimental...
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Landscape Architecture Spring 2025 Series, Expanded Practices: Jośe de Jesus Leal
Join us in 461 Kennedy Hall for a lecture with Jośe de Jesus Leal, Principal and Director of Native Nation Building Studio at MIG. This lecture is titled "Land as a Relation: Supporting Indigenous Connections/Reconnection and Our Obligations to...
  • Landscape

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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