THE STUCKEMAN ANNUAL - Stuckeman School

STUCKEMAN ENDOWMENTS/CHAIRS
& PROFESSORSHIPS
Steinitz Leads Stuckeman School Seminar
Eric Sutherland Vanessa Miriam Carlow James Wines
Eliza Pennypacker
John Dixon Hunt
Ray Gastil Mehrdad Hadighi
Ron Henderson
Photo: Douglas Levere
Photo: Emily T Cooperman
STUCKEMAN CHAIR IN INTEGRATIVE DESIGN IN THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
The inaugural holder for Landscape Architecture is Ron Henderson, effective fall 2011. Previously, Henderson worked
as the first full-time, non-Chinese landscape architecture faculty member in China, introducing the discipline as an
inaugural faculty member of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was
recently elected to the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Council of Fellows.
The inaugural holder for Architecture is Mehrdad Hadighi, effective spring 2012. Most recently, Hadighi served
two terms as chair of the Department of Architecture at the State University of New York at Buffalo. A licensed architect,
he is founding principal of the Studio for Architecture, an award-winning design practice that is engaged in research
and experimentation through building projects of different scales and scopes, site-specific gallery installations, and
design competitions.
STUCKEMAN CHAIR IN DESIGN INNOVATION IN THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
The inaugural Chair in Design Innovation is Ray Gastil, former city planning director for Seattle, Washington, and the
borough of Manhattan in New York City. Earlier, he was founding director of Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public
Architecture, an internationally recognized program. Gastil’s current research projects include studying the interrelated
urban design and planning of cities and universities. Gastil joined Stuckeman in fall 2011 and will stay through spring 2013.
ELEANOR R. STUCKEMAN CHAIR IN DESIGN
SPRING 2013/ SPRING 2014
Professor John Dixon Hunt, the next Eleanor R. Stuckeman Chair in Design, is professor emeritus of the history and
theory of landscape, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania. He edits the journal Studies
in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes; edits the Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture, in which thirty
volumes have so far appeared; and has written more than a dozen books, including The Afterlife of Gardens; Nature
Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay; Venetian City Garden: Place, Typology, and Perception, which won
the J.B. Jackson Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies in 2010; and his most recent book, A World of Gardens.
FALL 2011
Carl Steinitz, Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Landscape Architecture and
Planning Emeritus at Harvard Graduate School of Design
SPRING 2011
Ulrich Knaack, chair of Design of Constructions at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).
STUCKEMAN PROFESSORSHIP IN INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN
IN THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
Eliza Pennypacker, professor of Landscape Architecture
STUCKEMAN PROFESSORSHIP IN ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIES
IN THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
James Wines, professor, Department of Architecture, and founder and creative director of SITE,
a New York City-based, multidisciplinary architecture and environmental arts organization
STUCKEMAN CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROFESSORSHIPS IN DESIGN
IN THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
2012-2013
Architecture: Vanessa Miriam Carlow is co-founder of COBE (www.cobe.dk). The Danish-German office is internationally
known for the masterplan for the conversion of the Northern Harbour in Copenhagen and the development plan
for Copenhagen University. COBE won the Golden Lion at the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2006
Venice Biennale for its contribution to the Danish Pavilion. Carlow was recently granted the professorship for Sustainable
Urbanism at the University of Technology Brunswick, Germany, and consults the City of Berlin on hosting its third
International Building Exhibition—IBA Berlin 2020. She holds a master of art in urban management from five European
universities, and a doctorate from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Landscape Architecture: Not finalized at time of publication.
2011-2012
David Goldberg, Stuckeman practitioner instructor of landscape architecture
Marcel Vandersluis, Stuckeman professor in practice
STUCKEMAN PRACTITIONER INSTRUCTOR FOR DESIGN
The Stuckeman Practitioner Instructor Program Endowment for Design enhances the educational experience of
students by inviting various professionals from the field to teach and mentor the next generation of designers.
2012-2013
Architecture: Eric Sutherland worked for twelve years in international architectural offices on projects in Europe,
Asia, and the Middle East. In 1994, he helped launch OMA Asia in Hong Kong (now named RAD). A former professor
in the Department of Architecture at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he worked on campus projects that
were completed with students as part of a hands-on architecture curriculum. One of the projects, designed with Kent
Kleinman, won a Progressive Architecture Award in 2000. Sutherland came to New York in 2003 to work on the World
Trade Center Masterplan, and worked at Studio Daniel Libeskind for more than eight years. More recently, he led the
design of the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre at the City University of Hong Kong, which received a Hong Kong
Institute of Architects Merit Award in 2012.
Landscape Architecture: Not finalized at time of publication.
2010-2011 (INAUGURAL APPOINTMENTS)
Malcolm Woollen, visiting assistant professor, Department of Architecture
David Goldberg, Stuckeman practitioner instructor of Landscape Architecture
In fall 2011, Dr. Carl Steinitz served as the Eleanor R. Stuckeman Chair in Design. Steinitz, Alexander and Victoria Wiley
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning Emeritus at Harvard Graduate School of Design, has devoted much of
his academic and professional career to improving methods by which planners and designers analyze information about
large land areas and make decisions about conservation and development.
He is author of A Framework for Geodesign: Changing Geography by Design (Esri, 2012), which outlines the process
he has refined for more than thirty years.
For the first five weeks of the fall 2011 semester, Steinitz led an intensive five-week seminar for upper-level Penn
State Landscape Architecture students titled “The Visual Landscape: Assessment and Management.” During his stay, he
also worked with Andy Cole, associate professor of landscape architecture, and Brian Orland, distinguished professor of
landscape architecture, to organize a charrette related to a special Marcellus Shale-focused depth studio.
Building on more than four decades at Harvard Graduate School of Design, as well as a professional career managing a
substantial number of “politically charged, largely undefined big multidisciplinary projects,” Steinitz gave a public lecture,
“On Ways of Designing.”
The lecture resonated with University students and faculty, professionals in related designs fields, and average citizens
worried about their environment—from clean water and biodiversity to urban sprawl and the beauty of the landscape.
The subtext of Steinitz’s message: Caveat emptor.
Steinitz emphasizes a collaborative approach to design that he says transcends traditional landscape architecture
curricula: the notion that a designer makes the design. The biggest problems of the foreseeable future—population
growth, landscape preservation and water quality, to name a few—do not fit that model. “Most of the time, design schools
teach on the basis of a client, a site and program,” he says. “But what if there’s no client, no site, and no program”
Steinitz has lectured and given workshops at more than 140 other universities. In 1984, the Council of Educators in
Landscape Architecture (CELA) presented him with the Outstanding Educator Award for his “extraordinary contribution
to environmental design education” and for his “pioneering exploration in the use of computer technology in landscape
planning.” In 1996, he received the annual “Distinguished Practitioner Award” from the International Association for
Landscape Ecology (USA). In 2002, he was honored as a Harvard University Outstanding Teacher.
ALLOCATION
OF DONATIONS
STUCKEMAN ENDOWMENT FOR
COLLABORATIVE DESIGN RESEARCH
The Stuckeman Endowment for Collaborative
Design Research distributes awards to support
collaborative design research through a
competitive review process of submitted
proposals and strategic initiatives. In 2011/2012,
these funds supported wetlands research
involving collaborations with an area high
school, and a national conference dedicated
to the understanding of the beginning
design student.
STUCKEMAN CENTER
FOR DESIGN COMPUTING
The Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
distributes competitive awards supporting
advanced technology, digital workshops,
and lectures. These awards have greatly
increased the exposure of all students to digital
fabrication, immersive visualization tools, and
display technology in the studios.
52%
CPI:
CHAIRS
PROFESSORSHIPS
INSTRUCTORS
Dr. Carl Steinitz
CDR:
COLLABORATIVE
DESIGN RESEARCH
26%
SCDC:
STUCKEMAN
CENTER FOR DESIGN
COMPUTING
22%
Photo: Tess Canfield
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THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO HELPED US REACH FOR MORE. FOR A LIST OF BENEFACTORS,
PLEASE GO TO: STUCKEMAN.PSU.EDU/STUCKEMAN/BENEFACTORS
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