Feb. 24, 2012

This year's Whittemore Lecture in Landscape Architecture featured a panel discussion on the topic "Landmark Women in Landscape Architecture." The Institute for Research on Women and Gender co-sponsore the lecture with SNRE. 

Welcome and introductions:

Welcome by Marie Lynn Miranda, Dean and Professor of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, and Joan Iverson Nassauer, Professor of Landscape Architecture (View the video)

Speakers:

• Darwina Neal, first woman to be president of the American Society of Landscape Architects, first chair of the ASLA Committee for Women, longtime landscape architect in charge of national park service design and management in Washington, D.C.Breaking Ground: Landmark Women in Landscape Architecture (View the video)
• Barbara Faga, first woman to be principal designer in EDAW, and then on the board of the largest design build firm in the world, AECOM, when EDAW was sold to AECOM.  Designer of the Atlanta Olympics site plan.  Social Change, Landscape Urbanism (View the video)
• Linda Jewell, one of the four women landscape architecture faculty in the nation in 1975. Former chair of the LA programs at Harvard and Berkeley.  Co-editor of the forthcoming book, "Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice."Examining A Career In Landscape Architecture (View the video)

Background:

The annual lecture is named for Harlow O. Whittemore (1889-1986), a nationally recognized leader in landscape architecture and community planning, who served as professor and chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture and City Planning at the University of Michigan.

He received his master's degree in Landscape Design from the University of Michigan in 1914 and was invited to join the landscape architecture faculty the very same year, serving until his retirement in 1958. In addition to his prominent role at U-M, Whittemore was instrumental in developing the concept for the Huron-Clinton Metropark Authority.