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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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Thaisa Way: Why History Matters NOW
The Department of Landscape Architecture is proud to welcome Thaisa Way to present at the department's Landscape Lecture Series. Speaker Bio: Thaisa Way is the Director of Studies for Garden & Landscape Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research...
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Jane Hutton: Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements
The Department of Landscape Architecture is proud to welcome Jane Hutton to present at the department's Landscape Lecture Series. Speaker Bio: Jane Hutton is a landscape architect, teaching at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture...
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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...
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Sergio Lopez-Pineiro: Along with Strangers
The Department of Landscape Architecture is proud to welcome Sergio Lopez-Pineiro to present at the department's Landscape Lecture Series. Speaker Bio: Sergio Lopez-Pineiro is an interdisciplinary architect whose work explores voids as socio...

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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