Steve Strom Memorial Lecture

Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture
Steve Strom Memorial Lecture


"1,000 Years of Landscape Planning"

Carl Steinitz
Harvard Graduate School of Design


Thursday, September 20, 2007
5:30 p.m.
Art History Building (Douglass Campus), Room 200

The Department of Landscape Architecture is pleased to announce that this year's Steve Strom Memorial Lecture will be given by Carl Steinitz, the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Research Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In this presentation, Professor Steinitz will discuss the intellectual history of landscape planning.

Over his career, Professor Steinitz has broadly and deeply transformed the practice of landscape
architecture. Stemming from his early efforts at the Harvard Lab for Computer Graphics, his research has provided fundamental contributions to Geographic Information Systems (GIS). His work on visual analysis and assessment has influenced both the work of practitioners and government agencies. Above all, he has substantively informed education in the discipline through seminal writings including, "A Framework for Theory Applicable to the Education of
Landscape Architects (and other Environmental Design Professionals)," and "Design is a Noun; Design is a Verb."

Professor Steinitz has directed landscape planning studies around the world. Sites of investigation include the Gunnison region of Colorado; the Monadnock region of New Hampshire; The Snyderville Basin, Utah; Monroe County, Pennsylvania; the region of Camp Pendleton, California; the western Galilee in Israel; the Gartenreich Worlitz in Germany; the West Lake in Hangzhou, China; the Upper San Pedro River Basin in Sonora and Arizona; Coiba National Park in Panama; the regions of La Paz and Loreto in Baja California Sur, Mexico; and Castilla La Mancha in Spain.

His honors include the Alfred LaGasse Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Outstanding Educator Award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, a Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering work in Geographical Information Systems from ESRI, and a Distinguished Practitioner Award from the International Association for Landscape Ecology (USA). He has been a Fulbright Distinguished Professor and he is an honorary Professor at the Beijing Forestry University in the People's Republic of China.

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