Landscape Architecture

Landscape Architecture Faculty

Marvin I. Adleman
Professor
Nationally honored with Jot Carpenter Medal of the ASLA (ASLA website) for his teaching of the fundamental skills of shaping the earth, Marvin Adleman brings extensive and continuing professional practice experience in landscape architecture to the faculty. His renowned approach to site engineering helps students master the complex mathematics and physics involved in calculating land layout through the use of practical examples at the desk and in the field, as well as close personal attention. His studio teaching over the years has addressed the rural development problems of Upstate New York, from the residential scale to the landscape planning scale. His outreach on design issues is published electronically in The Rural Design Workbook. Professor Adleman is Fellow of the ASLA.

Nina Bassuk
Professor
Is Director of the Urban Horticulture Institute, whose mission is to improve the quality of urban life by enhancing the functions of plants within the urban ecosystem. Professor of horticultural physiology in the Department of Horticulture, Dr. Bassuk also co-instructs two large courses in Landscape Architecture, LA 491, Design and Plant Establishment in the Urban Environment, and LA 492, Creating the Urban Eden: Woody Plant Selection, Design, and Landscape Establishment.

Sherene Baugher
Associate Professor
an historic archaeologist and preservationist, is Director of the Cornell’s Inter-college and Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program. She is active both in archaeological and cultural landscape research. Formerly the first official Urban Archaeologist for New York City (1980-1990), she joined the faculty in 1991. She has been actively involved in service-learning and community service, and has received numerous grants for her courses that involve service-learning. She consults with local, state and national government agencies and American Indian Nations on the preservation of archaeological sit sacred sites, and cultural landscapes.

Kathryn Gleason
Associate Professor
is internationally known for her work in landscape archaeology. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, trained in landscape architecture and Mediterranean archaeology, she addresses the question of design and design process in landscape architectural history and classical archaeology. At the same time, she brings a unique perspective to contemporary design teaching and discourse, asking students and colleagues to consider the extant and often fragmentary archaeologies and memories of past landscapes that make up every site on which a landscape architect works. Co-editor of The Archaeology of Garden and Field, her primary contributions to the profession have been through her archaeological investigations and publications of foundational landscapes in Western landscape history: the public parks of Rome, the Roman villa gardens of the poet Horace at Licenza and of Julius Caesar (?) at Nemi, the palaces of Herod the Great, and a new public park at Petra, Jordan. She is Project Director for the excavations of the Promontory Palace of Herod the Great at Caesarea Maritima, Israel. Her work with arid cultivation has led to sustainability-focused projects at Nagaur, India; the pueblos of Zuni and Acoma, New Mexico, and Wadi Beda, Jordan.

Herbert Gottfried
Professor Emeritus
studies the American cultural landscape, including the relationship between environmental change and cultural history, the visual culture associated with the landscape, and the production of common buildings. His current project is a cooperative venture with landscape photographer, Frank Gohlke, in which they are documenting the latitude 42° 30'N across the state of Massachusetts..

Andrea Hammer
Senior Lecturer
Is Director of the department’s new Landscape Studies Program, which serves as a forum for interdisciplinary investigations of current issues in landscape studies, as well as oversight for the department’s curricular offerings outside of the major. She brings to cultural landscape studies a background in literature, photography, and documentary theory and practice. She explores how places are imagined, made, and transformed as well as how they are represented through different visual and aural media. She is the founder—and for twenty years the director—of SlackWater, an undergraduate oral history/documentary project on changing lifeways in Southern Maryland’s tidewater communities. Since coming to Cornell in 2004, she has shifted her attention to New York State and is developing a series of projects around the Military Tract Grid.

Paula Horrigan
Associate Professor
is an artist and designer trained in the fine arts whose contributions to the profession have included the use of book-making as a critical mode of reflection on experience and design processes in the landscape. Pursuing her concern for art in the public realm, she has received numerous recognitions and awards, including a CELA teaching award, as leader in service learning and participatory action research, recently heading up both of Cornell University’s campus-wide programs in these areas. Professor Horrigan is currently being funded by a grant from the Graham Foundation to pursue the study of Visual Books Representing Landscape. A licensed Landscape Architect, she also maintains an active professional practice.

Daniel Krall
Associate Professor
is Director of Graduate Studies. He is a landscape architect and leading historian of the American landscape. His research in recent years has focused on the role of women in Landscape Architecture. He has carried out extensive research on Ellen Shipman and Elizabeth Leonard Strang, and is currently completing the history of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University. A Fellow of the ASLA, his practice focuses award-winning pro bono community design work for Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, Historic Ithaca, and other local non-profit organizations. His teaching addresses design issues for underserved communities, as well as memorials, hospice gardens, and historic landscapes.

Leonard Mirin
Associate Professor
is a landscape architect who bridges the departments of landscape architecture and architecture. His efforts introduce both the traditions and the design techniques of landscape architecture to students dedicated to establishing their careers in both professions and, for this, he has been recognized with a CELA Distinguished Teaching Award among other teaching honors. Professor Mirin teaches the history of American and European Landscape Architecture, graduate landscape architecture studios, site planning for architects, and a seminar on Japanese architecture and landscapes. He is co-director of the eight-week summer Architecture - Japan Program.

Amaechi Okigbo
Associate Professor
has established a strong identity both as a landscape architect and a visual artist by “curating” museum and public art settings with artists such as Patrick Dougherty and Mary Miss. Okigbo grew up in Ibadan, Nigeria and moved to the United States in 1982. Since arriving at Cornell, Amaechi has shifted his focus on painting to include the design of urban spatial environments and theoretical investigations in space, and spatial construction. His studio and design courses focus on the use of non-conventional modes of visual representation, drawing and technology. In 2002, he established Studio Okigbo/Graffito Studios was established. The firm is a collaborative, interdisciplinary design studio at the intersection of art and land architecture.

Roger Trancik
Professor
a Fellow of ASLA, is a landscape architect and urban designer jointly affiliated with the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell (DCRP.) Author of Finding Lost Space, his continuing work with urban design theory has moved into the realm of computer visualization. Through National Endowment for the Arts and Graham Foundation grants, he has recently published the award-winning and delightful CD, Layers of Rome, to explore interactive models of urban design and growth over time. His current project is the Layers of Panama, for which he has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar.

Peter Trowbridge
Professor
is Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. Co-author of Trees in the Urban Landscape with Nina Bassuk, he is a practicing landscape architect and Fellow of the ASLA, combining research and practice in sustainable design and revegetation of landfill sites, urban land, and other difficult environments. Recognized at the state and national levels for his teaching, his coursework engages plant identification, planting design, construction technology and graduate and undergraduate studios that focus on landscape rehabilitation and ecology. He maintains an active practice, Trowbridge and Wolf, contributes to Landscape Architecture Magazine on a regular basis, and is an editor of the Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning.

Robert Venables
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Venables primarily focuses his instruction on the history of the landscape as it relates to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy: Mohawks, Oneidas, Tuscaroras, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senacas. A leading advocate and expert witness in court cases in the US and Canada, his career and numerous publications, such as his recent book, American Indian History: Five Centuries of Conflict and Co-existence seek justice and a broader social awareness of these cultures.