Robert Pietrusko
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture

on leave 2020-21
Robert Gerard Pietrusko is an Associate Professor in the department of Landscape Architecture, where his teaching and research focus on geographic representation, simulation, narrative cartography, and the history of spatial data sets.
His design work is part of the permanent collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris and has been exhibited in over ten countries at venues such the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), ZKM Center for Art & Media, and the Venice Architecture Biennale, among others.
Prior to joining the junior faculty of the GSD, Pietrusko worked as a designer with Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York, and held research positions at Parsons Institute for Information Mapping at the New School and at Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab.
Pietrusko holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Synthesis (with honors) from the Berklee College of Music; a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University; and a Master of Architecture (with distinction) from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Projects
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INTRODUCING GIM: Geographic Information Machine
Robert Pietrusko, Instructor
Fall 2018
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Harvard Mellon Initiative: Reconceptualizing the Urban
Stephen Gray, Alex Krieger, Rahul Mehrotra, Sibel Bozdo??an and Robert Pietrusko, Lead Faculty
Eve Blau and Julie Buckler, Principal InvestigatorsFall 2015
Exhibitions
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Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative
Eve Blau and Robert Pietrusko, Curators
AUG 27 – OCT 14, 2018