Faculty and Staff

Landscape Architecture Faculty

	Nina Bassuk Professor 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 has published numerous articles and book chapters on service-learning and community service, cultural landscape studies, and landscape archaeology. She consults with local, state and national government agencies and American Indian Nations on the preservation of archaeological sites, sacred sites, and cultural landscapes.
	Jeremy Foster Assistant Professor Jeremy Foster is trained as an architect and landscape architect, and holds a PhD. in Human Geography. He has practiced architecture in South Africa, and landscape architecture in the US, primarily with Hanna/Olin (now the Olin Partnership) and Andropogon Associates in Philadelphia. Jeremy has taught at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Virginia, at Virginia Tech, and since 2002, at Cornell, in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, and City & Regional Planning. His recent design studios have addressed the interpretation of contested natural/cultural landscapes; questions of context, locale and place-identity; social, infrastructural and ecological change in urban contexts; and the relationship between media, public space and urban identity. His teaching interests also include the history and theory of landscapes, cities and built environments; the role of socio-spatial practices and ideologies in shaping urban formations and identities; the relationship between visual culture and geographical imagination; and the urbanism of displacement (ie colonialism, post-colonialism, and migration). Jeremy has published several articles on the historic role of ideologies and representational practices in the cultural appropriation, construction and use of landscapes. His book "Washed with Sun: Landscape & the Making of White South Africa" recently came out from University of Pittsburgh Press.
	Kathryn Gleason Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies 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, a grand terrace garden buried by Mt. Vesuvius, and of Julius Caesar at Nemi, the palaces of Herod the Great, an ancient Nabataean 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; and the pueblos of Zuni and Acoma, New Mexico.
	Paula Horrigan Associate Professor 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 and 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 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.

	Deni Ruggeri Assistant Professor Deni Ruggeri is trained as a landscape architect/urban designer. He holds Masters of Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning from Cornell University, a Laurea in Architettura from School of Architecture of Milan's Polytechnic in Italy, and is Ph.D. Candidate in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Ruggeri's research focuses on the interface between physical environment and human behavior. His research investigates the influence that urban design and landscape architecture have on people's place attachment to the everyday neighborhood landscape. Additional research interests include social factors in urban design, and the investigation of the role that landscape architecture has played in the design of European and American new town utopias. He is the co-editor of a spring, 2007 issue of the Journal "Places" and the author of various articles published in various conference proceedings. In addition to research, Professor Ruggeri has practiced landscape architecture and community design, working on urban design, park design, streetscape and landscape planning projects for SWA and Design Workshop. His most recent projects include the master planning, design and construction of the Jeffrey Open Space Trail in Irvine, CA, the residential communities of Ridgegate in Colorado and Spanish Walk in Palm Desert, CA and a new town center for Westport, California. Prof. Ruggeri is currently working on developing a "virtual drawing board," an interactive digital platform for the production and sharing of large format drawings with local and remote audiences funded by a grant from Cornell Information Technologies. The virtual drawing board's overarching goal is to develop an interactive, dynamic classroom allowing "in loco" collaboration between students and faculty and between Cornell classes and clients at remote locations.
	Peter Trowbridge Chair and Professor 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.

Landscape Architecture Lecturers

Andrea Hammer

Senior Lecturer

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, sound recording and oral history, 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 New Military Tract, the region's gridded spatial order laid out in 1790.

Marc Miller

Lecturer

Marc Miller has advanced degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture. He also has a degree in Art History along with a B.F.A. He has practiced as an architect and designer internationally on a range of project types including museums, retail and higher education. Most recently he has worked as an urban designer and campus master plan designer. He is interested in landscape-based infrastructures,
ecological urbanism and infrastructural urbanism.

He is interested the role of how mapping and models influence the construction of landscape, along with the role of landscape as a catalyst for change within urban environments. Currently, he is working with
methods of representing space using synchroballistic photography.

Jamie Vanucchi-Hartung
Lecturer

Jamie Vanucchi has a BLA from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a MLA from Cornell University. She has focused on the merging of ecology and design, and the coexistence of thriving communities and complex and diverse ecosystems. Jamie's teaching and research interests include: ecological design and sustainable design in urban and suburban contexts; water management as an integral part of the urban landscape; generative and evolving landscape design; and land-based, high-performance urban infrastructure systems providing ecosystem services to communities.

Landscape Architecture Emeritus Faculty

	Marvin I. Adleman Professor Emeritus 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.
	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.
	Arthur Lieberman Professor Emeritus Professor Lieberman was a member of the Cornell University faculty from 1956-1986, and then joined the University of Haifa faculty in 1987. He served as the Resident Director of the Cornell Abroad Program in Israel from 1987-1994, then the Cornell Abroad Faculty Representative in Israel from 1994-1996, and resides in Haifa. Professor Lieberman is currently involved in environmental education efforts concerning integrated mass transportation, protection of open space, rational land-use planning, and in international development and conservation planning,, landscape ecology-based land and resource planning, and the role of landscape ecology in scientific and professional training. Along with co-author Zev Naveh, Professor Lieberman wrote Landscape Ecology, Theory and Application, which was the first English language monograph on the transdisciplinary science of landscape ecology. A Spanish edition of the book, published in Argentina in 2002, includes additions from leading scholars in Latin America. The book was also translated to Chinese and published in China in 2002.
	Roger Trancik Professor Emeritus 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.