Faculty news

Congratulations to our faculty members, instructors, and teaching assistants included on the Fall 2019 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, which was recently posted by the University’s Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning.

We are very pleased to announce that Jie Hu—Director and Chief Designer of the Research Center for Landscape Architecture at the Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning and Design Institute (THUPDI) and Vice-President of THUPDI overall—will be joining our faculty beginning this August 2020 to chair our new Master of Sustainable Urban Design program.

Prof. Dede Ruggles appears in “The Ornament of the World,” a documentary film that premiered at the Madrid International Film Festival this past summer and will air on PBS on December 17.

“Crossing the Skyline,” an exhibition on architecture, literacy, and incarceration curated by Prof. Aneehsa Dharwadker, has opened in the Sullivan Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Congratulations to Prof. Mary Pat McGuire, Jessica M. Henson, and 21 distinguished contributors on the release of Fresh Water: Design Research for Inland Water Territories.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Pollyanna Rhee will be joining our department as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture with a focus on landscape history.

Congratulations to our Department Head, Bill Sullivan, who was inducted into the Academy of Fellows of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture!

This past week, Prof. David L. Hays and collaborator Jonathan D. Solomon (Director of AIADO at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) opened a new nonprofit gallery called Space p11.

Early last month, our Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois Provost Andreas Cangellaris, Dean of Fine and Applied Arts Kevin Hamilton, Landscape Architecture Foundation CEO Barbara Deutsch, and Morton Arboretum Landscape Architect Susan Jacobson gathered to celebrate the investiture of Professor D. Fairchild Ruggles as the first Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape Architecture.

This summer, work from the Wabash Project, a design research series by Prof. Stephen Sears, was featured in the exhibition “Rome Revisited” at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, California.

Congratulations to Designer-in-Residence Aneesha Dharwadker, who will be joining us as an Assistant Professor, beginning this month, through a joint appointment in the School of Architecture and the Department of Landscape Architecture.

A new essay by Prof. David L. Hays, published in the French journal Polysèmes, explores photography, trauma, and landscape in the film Last Year at Marienbad (1961). See his article “Knowing and Not Knowing, Moving and Not Moving, in Alain Resnais’s L’Année dernière à Marienbad (1961).”