AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

Anita Berrizbeitia is a landscape architect and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania. She received an MLA degree from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, where she also taught from 1992 to 1998. Her essays have been published in A + U and in Daniel Urban Kiley: The Early Gardens; Recovering Landscape; and Roberto Burle Marx: Landscapes Reflected (all published by Princeton Architectural Press). She is coauthor, with Linda Pollak, of Inside Outside: Between Architecture and Landscape.

Julia Czerniak is Associate Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University, where she teaches architectural studios as well as seminars on landscape design and criticism. Educated as an architect and landscape architect, both her research and speculative practice, CLEAR, work at the intersection of these disciplines. She was recently named a winner in the Architectural League of New York's Young Architects Forum; the recognized work will be included in the forthcoming book Second Nature (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001).

Robert Glover (BArch, MBA) is an architect and Director of Urban Design for the City of Toronto. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

Kristina Hill is an urban designer who uses landscape ecology as the basis for her approach to urban form. Her academic research is on the impacts of urban development patterns on ecological processes. She is currently an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Detlef Mertins is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto and principal of Mertins Architects. He has served as professional advisor to several significant competitions in Canada-Kitchener City Hall (1988-89) and Erindale College Student Center (1895-96)--as well as Downsview Park (1999-2000). His reinterpretations of the history and theory of modern design have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. His major publications include The Presence of Mies (1994) and an edition of Walter Curt Behrend: The Victory of the New Building Style (2000).

Don Mitchell is Associate Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Geography at Syracuse University. He is author of Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction (2000), The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (1996), and several articles on the politics of public space. In 1998 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, with which he founded the People's Geography Project that he continues to direct.

Linda Pollak is on the faculty of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is a principal in the New York firm of MPArchitects. Her current work includes a Community Center for the Jacob Riis Houses in Lower Manhattan, a Youth Ballpark in East Harlem, and an Urban Wetlands Park and Outdoor Classroom in Staten Island, which received a 2000 Honor Award in Architecture from the AlA NYC. The firm's work was recently featured in On the Nature of Things: Contemporary American Landscape Architecture, by Gavin Keeney, and has been widely published in such journals as Casabella, Competitions, Daidalos, Harvard Design Magazine, House and Garden, Journal of Architectural Education, and Pages Paysage. Pollak is coauthor, with Anita Berrizbeitia, of Inside Outside: Between Architecture and Landscape.

R. E. Somol teaches design and theory in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. He was a member of the editorial board of ANY magazine, and the editor of Autonomy and Ideology (Monacelli, 1997). His architectural office, PXS, currently has a house under construction in Los Angeles.

Richard Van Deusen holds a master's degree in landscape architecture. A doctoral student in the Department of Geography at Syracuse University, he is Projects Director of the People's Geography Project. His research focuses on the critical design potentials of public space.