Research
Teaching
University of Minnesota: Mississippi Transect Studio
Mapping by James St. George-Schrader+ Nicole Delpizzo, Emily Morton + Trevor Brander, Kyle Thurston + Torey Erin
Final Project by Nicole Delpizzo
Mapping Round Table
Model by Torey Erin
Final Project by Chang Li
Final Project by Lucia Bennett
RISD: Design Principles Studio
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1:1 Site Plan by Yuhan Su
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Modular Model by Yuhan Su
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Site Plan by Yuhan Su
1:1 Site Plan by Yuhan Su
Modular Model by Yuhan Su
Site Plan by Yuhan Su
Design Principles - 1:1 Soil Section by Luyi Xu
RISD: Representation II
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Site Plan by Junrong Wang
Site Plan by Junrong Wang
Hybrid Drawing by Junrong WangCV
Academic Positions
Rhode Island School of Design
Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture | 2024 - Present
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Design Critic in Landscape Architecture
Core II Studio | Spring 2024
Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Histories of Landsape Architecture | Spring 2023
Theories of Landscape Urbanism | Fall 2022
University of Minesota College of Design
Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
2nd + 3rd Year Vertical Studio | Fall 2024
Technology 1 | Fall 2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Critic in Landscape Architecture
Theory I | Spring 2024
Representation 2 Instructor | Spring 2020 - 2023
Site Ecology Design Studio Co-Instructor | Spring 2023
Design Principles Studio Instructor | Fall 2020
Constructed Ground Studio Instructor | Winter 2022 - 2024
Boston Architectural College
Landscape Architecture Thesis Instructor | Fall 2021
Architecture Site Studio Instructor | Fall 2019 - Spring 2021
Professional Positions
Sasaki
Associate | August 2019 - July 2021, June - July 2022
Lead project designer for a wide range of urban plans, competitions, and campus landscapes, including Climate Ready - East Boston & Charlestown, Virginia Tech’s Infinite Loop, and Denver Art’s District Streetscapes. Other project information available upon request.
Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Project Designer | August 2016 - June 2019
Lead project designer for the winning Chouteau Greenway Competition in St. Louis and subsequent vision planning phases, as well as the Moakley Park Vision Plan in South Boston and the Thermal Mass installation in the Seoul Biennale.
Lectures, Conferences
Rivers on the Move Conference
Brown University, June 2023
Seeding Relations Conference
The Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center, March 25-26, 2022
Tar Creek Remade Studio
Guest Lecture
Presentation titled “Damming Histories,” Harvard Graduate School of Design, February 15, 2022
Nature Culture Sustainability Studies Faculty Pecha Kucha
Guest Lecture
Presentation titled “Returning to the River,” Rhode Island School of Design, April 30, 2021
“Voices and Visions Of St. Louis: Past, Present, Future” Conference
Graduate Student Panel
Harvard Graduate School of Design, March 30-April 1, 2016
Rhode Island School of Design
Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture | 2024 - Present
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Design Critic in Landscape Architecture
Core II Studio | Spring 2024
Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Histories of Landsape Architecture | Spring 2023
Theories of Landscape Urbanism | Fall 2022
University of Minesota College of Design
Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
2nd + 3rd Year Vertical Studio | Fall 2024
Technology 1 | Fall 2024
Rhode Island School of Design
Critic in Landscape Architecture
Theory I | Spring 2024
Representation 2 Instructor | Spring 2020 - 2023
Site Ecology Design Studio Co-Instructor | Spring 2023
Design Principles Studio Instructor | Fall 2020
Constructed Ground Studio Instructor | Winter 2022 - 2024
Boston Architectural College
Landscape Architecture Thesis Instructor | Fall 2021
Architecture Site Studio Instructor | Fall 2019 - Spring 2021
Professional Positions
Sasaki
Associate | August 2019 - July 2021, June - July 2022
Lead project designer for a wide range of urban plans, competitions, and campus landscapes, including Climate Ready - East Boston & Charlestown, Virginia Tech’s Infinite Loop, and Denver Art’s District Streetscapes. Other project information available upon request.
Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Project Designer | August 2016 - June 2019
Lead project designer for the winning Chouteau Greenway Competition in St. Louis and subsequent vision planning phases, as well as the Moakley Park Vision Plan in South Boston and the Thermal Mass installation in the Seoul Biennale.
Lectures, Conferences
Rivers on the Move Conference
Brown University, June 2023
Seeding Relations Conference
The Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center, March 25-26, 2022
Tar Creek Remade Studio
Guest Lecture
Presentation titled “Damming Histories,” Harvard Graduate School of Design, February 15, 2022
Nature Culture Sustainability Studies Faculty Pecha Kucha
Guest Lecture
Presentation titled “Returning to the River,” Rhode Island School of Design, April 30, 2021
“Voices and Visions Of St. Louis: Past, Present, Future” Conference
Graduate Student Panel
Harvard Graduate School of Design, March 30-April 1, 2016
Writing
“The Dammed Landscapes of Wild Rice Country on the Upper Mississippi”
Rivers on the Move, ed. Bathsheba Desmuth, Mark Healey, Larry Smith, Giacomo Parrinello, --Forthcoming--
“Protest as Care, Care as Protest”
Special Issue: Landscapes of Care, Landscape Research Journal, --Forthcoming--
“Landscape as Palimpsest: Uncovering Narratives of Bdote/Fort Snelling”
Presented in Seeding Relations Conference, The Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center, March 25-26, 2022
“Buzzcut: The Aesthetics of Maintenance”
Published in Pidgin, Issue 28, December 9, 2020
Co-authored with Sam Naylor.
“Cowpoke Imaginary”
Published in Paprika!, October 7, 2020
Co-authored with Sam Naylor.
“From Ivory Tower to Common Ground”
Published in World Landscape Architect, September 1, 2020
Co-authored with Ian Scherling and Rawan Alsaffar.
“The Vision Plan for Boston’s Moakley Park”
Published in Parks & Recreation Magazine, 2019
Co-authored with Amy Whitesides and Alex Marchinski.
“Thermal Mass”
Published in Imminent Commons: The Expanded City, edited by Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Jeffery S. Anderson. 2017
Co-authored as part of the Stoss team for the Seoul Biennale.
“Hydrophilicity: A Study of Active Public Places Along the River Thames”
Bemis Research Travel Fellowship, 2013
“A City that Works: An Urban Analysis of the City of Toronto”
Living on the Boundaries: Urban Marginality in National and International Contexts, edited by Carol Camp-Yeaky, 2012
Co-authored with Amy Cole and Eboney J. Hutt
Fellowships, Awards, Grants
Moore Family Fellowship, 2023
Garden Club of America
In support of research on locks and dams on sacred Dakota lands in present-day Minneapolis.
Penny White Travel Fellowship
Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2022
In support of research studying dams built on Ojibwe land at the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
BB Green Award
Bee Breeders Nemrut Volcano Eyes Competition, 2018
Completed with Sam Naylor
Thermal Mass Exhibition
Seoule Biennale Exhibition, 2017
Designed and installed a courtyard landscape and a three-room exhibit representing the impact of heat and climate change on plants in South Korea. Exhibition was made with Amy Whitesides and Kate Harvey from Stoss.
ASLA Student Merit Award
Graduate School of Design, Award for Graduating Students, 2016
Hugh Ferriss Award for Architectural Drawing
Sam Fox School of Design, 4th Year Architecture Student Award, 2014
Schmerling Scholarship Recipient
Sam Fox School of Design, 4th Year Architecture Student Award, 2013
Laskey Design Competition Honorable Mention
Sam Fox School of Design, 2nd Year Architecture Student Award, 2012
Pruitt-Igoe Now Competition Finalist
National Competition, 2012
“The Dammed Landscapes of Wild Rice Country on the Upper Mississippi”
Rivers on the Move, ed. Bathsheba Desmuth, Mark Healey, Larry Smith, Giacomo Parrinello, --Forthcoming--
“Protest as Care, Care as Protest”
Special Issue: Landscapes of Care, Landscape Research Journal, --Forthcoming--
“Landscape as Palimpsest: Uncovering Narratives of Bdote/Fort Snelling”
Presented in Seeding Relations Conference, The Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center, March 25-26, 2022
“Buzzcut: The Aesthetics of Maintenance”
Published in Pidgin, Issue 28, December 9, 2020
Co-authored with Sam Naylor.
“Cowpoke Imaginary”
Published in Paprika!, October 7, 2020
Co-authored with Sam Naylor.
“From Ivory Tower to Common Ground”
Published in World Landscape Architect, September 1, 2020
Co-authored with Ian Scherling and Rawan Alsaffar.
“The Vision Plan for Boston’s Moakley Park”
Published in Parks & Recreation Magazine, 2019
Co-authored with Amy Whitesides and Alex Marchinski.
“Thermal Mass”
Published in Imminent Commons: The Expanded City, edited by Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Jeffery S. Anderson. 2017
Co-authored as part of the Stoss team for the Seoul Biennale.
“Hydrophilicity: A Study of Active Public Places Along the River Thames”
Bemis Research Travel Fellowship, 2013
“A City that Works: An Urban Analysis of the City of Toronto”
Living on the Boundaries: Urban Marginality in National and International Contexts, edited by Carol Camp-Yeaky, 2012
Co-authored with Amy Cole and Eboney J. Hutt
Fellowships, Awards, Grants
Moore Family Fellowship, 2023
Garden Club of America
In support of research on locks and dams on sacred Dakota lands in present-day Minneapolis.
Penny White Travel Fellowship
Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2022
In support of research studying dams built on Ojibwe land at the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
BB Green Award
Bee Breeders Nemrut Volcano Eyes Competition, 2018
Completed with Sam Naylor
Thermal Mass Exhibition
Seoule Biennale Exhibition, 2017
Designed and installed a courtyard landscape and a three-room exhibit representing the impact of heat and climate change on plants in South Korea. Exhibition was made with Amy Whitesides and Kate Harvey from Stoss.
ASLA Student Merit Award
Graduate School of Design, Award for Graduating Students, 2016
Hugh Ferriss Award for Architectural Drawing
Sam Fox School of Design, 4th Year Architecture Student Award, 2014
Schmerling Scholarship Recipient
Sam Fox School of Design, 4th Year Architecture Student Award, 2013
Laskey Design Competition Honorable Mention
Sam Fox School of Design, 2nd Year Architecture Student Award, 2012
Pruitt-Igoe Now Competition Finalist
National Competition, 2012