Richard Haag was an American landscape architect who was known for his role in Gas Works Park in Seattle,Washington and on the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. Richard Haag's modernist and minimalist ideals also set the tone for Northwestern landscape design.
Ian L. McHarg was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems. McHarg was one of the most influential persons in the environmental movement who brought environmental concerns into broad public awareness and ecological planning methods into the mainstream of landscape architecture,city planning and public policy. He was the founder of the department of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. His 1969 book Design with Nature pioneered the concept of ecological planning. It continues to be one of the most widely celebrated books on landscape architecture and land-use planning. In this book,he set forth the basic concepts that were to develop later in geographic information systems.
Hideo Sasaki was a Japanese American landscape architect.
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander LL.D. was a German-born Canadian landscape architect. Her firm,Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects,was founded in 1953,when she moved to Vancouver.
Health ecology is an emerging field that studies the impact of ecosystems on human health. It examines alterations in the biological,physical,social,and economic environments to understand how these changes affect mental and physical human health. Health ecology focuses on a transdisciplinary approach to understanding all the factors which influence an individual's physiological,social,and emotional well-being.
Sustainable landscape architecture is a category of sustainable design concerned with the planning and design of the built and natural environments.
Landscape urbanism is a theory of urban design arguing that the city is constructed of interconnected and ecologically rich horizontal field conditions,rather than the arrangement of objects and buildings. Landscape Urbanism,like Infrastructural Urbanism and Ecological Urbanism,emphasizes performance over pure aesthetics and utilizes systems-based thinking and design strategies. The phrase 'landscape urbanism' first appeared in the mid 1990s. Since this time,the phrase 'landscape urbanism' has taken on many different uses,but is most often cited as a postmodernist or post-postmodernist response to the "failings" of New Urbanism and the shift away from the comprehensive visions,and demands,for modern architecture and urban planning.
Vicente Guallart is a Spanish architect,urban planner,and researcher. He is one of the worldwide experts in Ecological Urban Development and Digital Cities with high expertise in Strategic Planning,Master Plan Development,Transport Oriented Development,Project Management,and Building and Landscape Design.
David Waltner-Toews is a Canadian epidemiologist,essayist,poet,fiction writer,veterinarian,and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne diseases,zoonoses and ecosystem health. He is best known for his work on animal and human infectious diseases in relation to complexity. He lives in Kitchener,Ontario.
Mario Schjetnan is a Mexican architect and landscape architect that manages to "unite social concerns,aesthetics and,increasingly,ecology- all by way of interpreting and celebrating Mexico's rich and diverse culture." He is co-founder of the interdisciplinary firm Grupo de Diseño Urbano in Mexico City known for designs in which the building is subordinate to the landscape. Among his numerous awards are the Prince of Wales/Green Prize in Urban Design for Xochimilco Ecological Park and the ASLA President's Award for Excellence for Parque El Cedazo.
Anita de la Rosa Berrizbeitia is a landscape theorist,teacher,and author. She continues to play an integral role in the renewed visibility of landscape architecture as a cultural practice. She is currently professor of landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and previous chair of the department of landscape architecture. Appointed in 2015,she served as the 14th chair of the oldest landscape architecture department in the world and only the second female to hold the position. Prior to coming to Harvard University she was the associate chair of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mitchell Joachim is an architect and urban designer. He is the Co-Founder of Terreform ONE,and an Associate Professor of Practice at NYU. Previously he was the Frank Gehry Chair at University of Toronto and a faculty member at Pratt,Columbia,Syracuse,Washington,The New School,and the European Graduate School.
Ecological urbanism draws from ecology to inspire an urbanism that is more socially inclusive and sensitive to the environment. It is less ideologically driven,than green urbanism or sustainable urbanism. In many ways,ecological urbanism is an evolution of,and a critique of,Landscape Urbanism arguing for a more holistic approach to the design and management of cities. This type of urbanism has a central scope of four main objectives:Compactness,complexity,efficiency,and stability. This model of Urbanism strives to tackle the current challenges of society by intertwining sustainability and urban occupation models. "Ecological urbanism" was coined by architect and planner Miguel Ruano in his 1998 book Eco-Urbanism:Sustainable Human Settlements,60 Case Studies. The term first appeared as "EcoUrbanism",which is defined as "the development of multi-dimensional sustainable human communities within harmonious and balanced built environments". The term was used later in April 2003 at a conference at the University of Oregon,and again in 2006 in a paper by Jeffrey Hou. Mohsen Mostafavi used the term in the 2007 publication Intervention Architecture and in a lecture at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Today,ecological urbanism is recognized as a formal academic research topic. Notably,the Harvard University Graduate School of Design has conducted a conference,held an art exhibition,and published a book all centered around ecological urbanism.
Susannah Hagan,FRSA is the founding Director of R_E_D and Professor and School Research Leader at the Royal College of Art School of Architecture. She has written and lectured extensively on the theory and practice of environmental design,in particular,environmentally led urban design. Hagan's major publications include City Fights:Debates on Sustainable Cities;Taking Shape:A New Contract between Architecture and Nature;and Digitalia:Architecture and the Environmental,the Digital and the Avant-garde.
Kongjian Yu,is a landscape architect and urbanist,writer and educator,commonly credited with the invention of Sponge City concept,and winner of the International Federation of Landscape Architects’Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in 2020. Received his Doctor of Design Degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1995,Doctor Honoris Causa from Sapienza University of Rome in 2017 and Honorary Doctorate from Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 2019,Yu was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.
Kate Orff is an American architect. She is the founding principal of SCAPE,a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York. She is also the director the Urban Design Program (MSAUD) at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture,Planning and Preservation and co-director of the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes. Orff is the first landscape architect to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
Peder Anker is a historian of environmental sciences,specializing in the history of ecology and ecological architecture and design. Anker is currently a Professor of History of Science at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Anker has received research fellowships from the Fulbright Program,the Dibner Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,and been a visiting scholar at both Columbia University and University of Oslo.
Miho Mazereeuw is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism in the Department of Architecture at MIT where she also directs the Urban Risk Lab. Mazereeuw is most known for her work in disaster risk reduction.
Robert Burley is a Canadian photographer of architecture and the urban landscape. He is based in Toronto,Canada,and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Sean Lally is an American architect based in Lausanne,Switzerland where he is the principal of Sean Lally Architecture Sarl. He is an associate professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago. His work looks at the implications of today's greatest pressures and how they will shape spaces and communities in the future.
