WORKS

Hello!

I am a landscape scholar, maker, and teacher based in Ithaca, NY.

This website is currently stripped down / under transformation: new projects are afoot.
In the meantime, you can always send me a line.

Emerging...

Living Site Land Studio: Together with Ursula Lang, I help land-owning organizations develop land care practices that meet their environmental and cultural values and aspirations.

Studio With: I help people care for land.

The Center for Touch-Made Landscapes: Advocating for Land Crafts and Care

Ongoing...

Unruly Earths: Sometimes, I make miniature landscapes. I layer sediments and fluids into a jar, see what they make of themselves, and document what occurs. I have an ongoing collaboration with Howard Ryan / hauras. Together we are Burrows. You can find our work here.

Scholarship, Teaching, Design: I am a landscape historian and instructor of landscape architecture, with a background in landscape architectural design, postmodern dance, and ecology. I have two decades of experience in landscape teaching and practice: guiding others to research living sites and articulate new landscape visions. Most recently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, I have been an Assistant Professor at Université de Montréal and taught at University of Buffalo, Cornell University, California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo, and University of Detroit Mercy. My writing can be found at the Center for Humans and Nature, PLATFORM, Journal of Design History, and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. As a designer, I have worked for Conger, Moss, Guillard, the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, and various San Francisco-based landscape architecture firms. I hold a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University, a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Swarthmore College.

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