P.H. Elwood Lecture in Landscape Architecture
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 23 Oct 2013 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm |
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| Location: | Kocimski Auditorium, 101 College of Design |
| Cost: | free |
| Contact: | Heidi Hohmann |
| Phone: | 515-294-8938 |
| Channel: | College of Design |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Susannah Drake, ASLA, AIA, is the founding principal of dlandstudio pllc, an award-winning multidisciplinary design firm in Brooklyn, N.Y., that includes landscape architects, urban designers, sculptors, scientists and architects.
The firm's recent public projects include "A New Urban Ground," designed in collaboration with Architectural Research Office for the Museum of Modern Art's Rising Currents exhibition; the Gowanus Canal Sponge Park, a public open space system designed to absorb and remediate urban stormwater; the Brooklyn Bridge Pop-up Park, a temporary waterfront open space that attracted nearly 200,000 visitors over six weeks of operation in 2008; the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls in Lilongwe, Africa, and the security for the New York City Police Department headquarters in lower Manhattan.
dlandstudio has received national and international design awards from the American Institute of Architects, American Society of Landscape Architects and the Chicago Athenaeum, among others. Drake won a 2013 AIA Young Architects Award and has received grants from the Graham Foundation, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, the James Marston Fitch Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts for research on campus landscapes and large-scale urban infrastructure projects. She is the author of "Elastic Landscape: Seeding Ecology in Public Space and Urban Infrastructure," published in the collection of essays titled Infrastrukturubanismus.
Drake holds a BA from Dartmouth College and MArch and MLA degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
The P.H. Elwood Lecture in Landscape Architecture was established in 1997 to honor the legacy of professor Philip H. Elwood, who is credited with developing the ISU Department of Landscape Architecture. The lecture series brings renowned practitioners to the Iowa State campus as guest lecturers each year.