![]() ![]() In 2017, she received the ASLA Jot Carpenter Teaching Medal for sustained and significant contribution to landscape architecture education. Meyer is broadly recognized as one of the most influential landscape architectural critics and theorists. We meet at monthly research roundtables, host symposia on timely topics, and collaborate on projects such as the Landscape Studies Initiative, a digital humanities project focused on innovative pedagogical approaches to, and tools for, the history of the designed landscape. Through our varied methodologies in the environmental humanities, biological sciences, law as well as design and planning, we aim to imagine new cultural landscape practices and to develop critical approaches to conserving historic designed and vernacular cultural landscapes of value. Meyer founded the Center for Cultural Landscapes to recognize UVA’s multi-disciplinary community whose research and teaching examines places shaped by human interrelationships with the biophysical world. This affords students opportunities to develop critical design positions on timely contemporary topics, and to translate ideas into meaningful landscape form, space, material and experience. Her seminars explore how changing conceptions of nature, space, the city and the public inform how we imagine and manipulate the landscape medium by interrogating assumptions about landscape representation, sustainability, public space and cultural landscapes. Meyer approaches design theory as a bridge between the world and design. Meyer’s studios explore urban landscapes replete with contested cultural meanings and layered socio-ecological histories as vehicles for catalyzing new experiences and envisioning new typologies of public space. Currently Meyer is writing a book, The Margins of Modernity, that reframes the history/theory of modern landscape architecture as a vital, but marginal, practice of city formation and place–making defining this 160-year-old profession’s significance in its hybrid spatial logics, material practices and temporal rhythms. Grounded in the materiality and experience of actual sites as well as contemporary cultural issues, Meyer’s public lectures and essays challenge conventional design practice by questioning the separation of aesthetics and sustainability race theory and urban topography public space, living systems and non-human species cultural landscape interpretation and innovative design. Since the late 1980s, Meyer has addressed this problem by produced a substantial body of theory and criticism that has altered how practitioners around the world create new landscape imaginaries. Landscape architecture is a socio-ecological spatial practice with its own vocabularies and theories, yet discourse about the designed landscape is hampered by reliance on interpretations by those outside our field. ![]() ![]() Historic Preservation with a Minor in Landscape Architecture History University of Virginia, B.S. Education: University of Virginia, Master of Landscape Architecture Cornell University, M.A. ![]()
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