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Academic Appointment:
- 1997-present: Lecturer, Department of
Landscape Architecture
- 1994-96 Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, GSD
- 1989-94 Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, GSD
Other Academic Experience:
- 1996-2002 Instructor, Harvard GSD Professional Development Program
- 1996 Guest Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture Ingenieurschul
Interkantonales Technikum Rapperswil , Switzerland
- 1996 Guest Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture FachHochschule
Sachsen-Anhalt, Bernburg, Germany
Education:
- 1989 Ph.D., Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology;
Ph.D. Thesis Title: "Structure and Function of Diagrams in Environmental
Design: A Computational Model"
- 1981 MLA, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- 1972-74 Boston Architectural Center
Professional Experience:
- 1994-1999 Associate/Consultant, GIS/Trans, Ltd. GIS/Visualization.
- 1994-1999 Associate, IDE Associates. Information/Visualization .
- 1983-89 President, MFE Associates, Inc. Computer research,
consulting and software development for designers
Books
Landscape Modeling: Digital Techniques for Landscape Visualization
with Hope Hasbrouck, McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Recent Publications:
- 2006"Landscape Meta-Modeling", (PDF) in Digital Landscape Modeling : Proceedings at Anhalt University
- 2006 Foreword in Visualization of Digital Terrain and Landscape Data; A Manual. Ruediger Mach and Peter Petschek. Springer, New York.
- 2005 Foreword in: Visualization in Landscape and Environmental Planning. Technology and applications. Bishop, E. Lange (eds.) Taylor & Francis, London
- 2005 "The End of an Era: Digital Photography overtakes Film", Landscape Architecture Magazine, February 2005
- 2004 "Landscape Visualization in GIS", Proceedings ESRI Users Conference, San Diego, CA. 10/2004
- 2003 "Digital Landscape visibility computation: necessary but not
sufficient", with Carl Steinitz, in Environment and Planning B,
Planning and Design, Volume 30.
- 2003 "Trends in Landscape Modeling : Proceedings at Anhalt University
of Applied Sciences 2003", Buhmann/Ervin eds., Herbert Wichtmann
Verlag, Heidelberg.
- 2001 "Digital Landscape Modeling and Visualization: A Research Agenda",
in Landscape and Urban Planning, May 2001.
- 1999 "Timeline: Thirty Years of Computer Graphics in Landscape Architecture
", (with Hope Hasbrouck) Landscape Architecture Magazine, October 1999
- 1998 "Using Computers to ask WHAT-IF?", Landscape
Architecture Magazine, October 1998
- 1997 "Virtual Landscapes", Landscape Architecture
Magazine, May 1997
- 1996 "It's a Wide Web World: Internet Resources for Landscape
Architects", Landscape Architecture Magazine, April 1996
- 1996 "Alternative Futures for Camp Pendleton, California",
GIS Research, May 1996
- 1995 "New GIS Resources for Landscape Architects",
Landscape Architecture Magazine, April1995
- 1994 "Aspects of the Road", Process Architecture, Volume 117, "The Art and
Mechanics of Landscape" May 1994
- 1994 "Digital Terrain Modelling", Landscape Architecture Magazine January
1994
- 1993 "EMAPS: An Extendable, Object-Oriented GIS", Auto-Carto 11, Association
of American cartographers/ASPRS/ACSMI, October 1993
- 1993 "An Object-Oriented Approach to Landscape Visualization", Computer
Graphic and Applications, IEEE Publishing, March 1993
Recent Invited Lectures:
- 2007 Keynote adress, "Land-Tech-Scape-Nology" Imagina Conference,
Monte Carlo, Monaco
- 2006 Keynote adress, "Knowledge-Based Landscape Modeling" Conference,
Anhalt Unversity, Dessau, Germany
- 2003 Keynote adress, "Trends in Landscape Modeling" Conference,
Anhalt Unversity, Dessau, Germany
- 2003 "Landscape Modeling" Invited Lecture at University
of Rhode Island, Kingston
- 2003 "Landscape Modeling: Rocks, Trees, Rivers", ASLA
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
- 2003 "Robodozing in real-time: a response" at University
of Virginia, Conference on Landscape Futures
- 2003 Keynote address, IFLA Conference, "Landscapes on the Edge",
Calgary, Canada
- 2003 Invited participant, Symposium on Maps and Mapping, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
- 2003 Keynote adress, "Trends in Landscape Modeling" Conference,
Anhalt Unversity, Dessau, Germany
- 2003 Johnson, Johnson & Roy Invited Lecture at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
- 2002 "What's in a Landscape Architect's Field Kit?", at ASLA Annual
Meting, San Diego, California
- 2001 Invited Keynote, at First International Conference on Digital Earth
Moving, Lugano, Switzerland
- 2000 "Digital Landscape Visualization: Progress and Prospects",
ASLA Annual Meeting, St Louis, MO
- 2000 "Workshop: GIS and Visualization in Landscape Planning", Hochschule
Rapperswil, Switzerland
- 2000 "Workshop: GIS and Visualization", Department of Landscape
Architecture, Royal College KVL, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1999 Digital Landscape Modelling and Visualization: A
Research Agenda", "Our Visual Landscape" conference, Ascona,
Switzerland
- 1999 "Thirty Years of Computer Graphics in Landscape Architecture,
ASLA Annual Meeting, Boston, September 1999
- 1999 "Workshop: GIS and Visualization in Landscape Planning", Hochschule
Rapperswil, Switzerland
- 1999 "Workshop: GIS and Visualization in Landscape Planning", Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto , Japan
- 1998 "A Technical Infrastructure for Internet-enabled Collaborative GIS
Study", Tokyo Agricultural University, Tokyo Japan
- 1998 "Workshop: GIS and Visualization in Landscape Planning", Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto , Japan
- 1998 "Workshop: GIS and Visualization in Landscape Planning", Hochschule
Rapperswil, Switzerland
- 1997 "Workshop: GIS and Visualization in Landscape Planning", Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto , Japan
- 1997 "Workshop: GIS and Visualization in Landscape Planning", Hochschule
Rapperswil, Switzerland
- 1996 "Visualizing Landscapes": Keynote Address at 'Landschafts Visualisierung'
Conference, May 1996. Rapperswil, Switzerland
- 1996 "Object-Oriented Approach to Landscape Visualization", University of
Zurich, Switzerland
- 1995 "Information Technology: Applications to Coastal Planning and Design",
FORO AZUL '95, Valencia Spain, May 1995
Consulting:
- 2003 MIT DUSP IT Evaluation
- 2001 Auburn University IT Evaluation
- 1994-95 Principal Investigator, "Prototype GIS Master Planning System for
Coast Guard District One" , U.S. Coast Guard
- 1994-95 Co-Investigator, "Alternative Futures for Camp Pendleton: A Biodiversity
Perspective", U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- 1992 Video Producer for Trustees of Reservations/ World Wildlife Fund: Crane
Beach- Ipswich Massachusetts documentary video.
- 1992 Implementing GIS and Visual Analysis at the Massachusetts Turnpike
Authority, with GIS-TRANS, Ltd. 1992 Software development for "Integrating
Visualization, CAD and GIS," in conjunction with University of Toronto and
GSD 1212
- 1991 Advisor to Trustees of Reservations--World Wildlife Fund Study/GIS
- 1991 Implementing GIS at the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
- 1990 Washington DC 2050 Study--NCPC/MIT
- 1989 Massachusetts Turnpike GIS--GSD
Honors and Awards:
- 2005, Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA)
- 2003, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Distinguished Alumnus
- 2002, "Landscape Modeling": Merit Award, American Society
of Landscape Architects
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