Teresa Gali Izard
Since 2012, GalÃ-Izard has held an appointment as Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia, where she also served as Chair of the Department from 2013 to 2015. She has previously taught in the Master’s program in Landscape Architecture and Environment at the Escuela Técnica Superior in Madrid, and has lectured in the School of Architecture of Oslo in Norway, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Austria, the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio in Switzerland, the School of Architecture of Grenoble University in France, and the Oporto School of Architecture in Portugal.
GalÃ-Izard is Principal of the firm Arquitectura Agronomia, a landscape architecture firm founded in 2007 and based in Barcelona. Arquitectura Agronomia has built a large number of projects in Spain, including the San Telmo Palace garden in Sevilla, the restoration of Arriaga Lake in Vitoria, Odesa Park in Sabadell, and the High Speed Train Station Park in Logroño. Over the last 20 years, GalÃ-Izard has also been involved in many other important contemporary landscape architecture projects, including the Parque de los Primeros Pasos in Caracas, Venezuela, Giner de los Rios garden in Madrid, the new urbanization of Passeig de Sant Joan, and the restoration of the Sant Joan landfill in Barcelona, which won the European Urban Public Space award in 2004.
GalÃ-Izard has been selected as a finalist in major landscape competitions in Spain, such as Cañaveral Park in Madrid and Central Park in Valencia, and has won many competitions, including the Energy Waste Recycling category at the World Architecture Festival in 2008. She was trained as an agricultural technical engineer, and earned her postgraduate degree in gardening and landscape at the Escuela Superior de Agricultura  de Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She is author of The same landscapes. Ideas and interpretations, 2006 Ed. Gustavo Gili and editor with Daniela Colafrancesci of Jacques Simon: The other landscapes. Ideas and thoughts on the territory, 2018 Ed. Libria.
Cameron Wu
Cameron Wu is Assistant Professor of Architecture and teaches in the core architecture studio sequence and the core lecture/workshop course Projective Representation in Architecture. That course aims to provide the historical background, critical instruments, and technical tools to imagine and represent with precision the continually expanding repertoire of three-dimensional architectural form.
Wu’s professional practice experience has included work with James Carpenter Design Associates (New York), where his key projects included The Israel Museum Jerusalem campus renewal and expansion (opening 2010) and a glazed gridshell canopy at 880 Broadway in San Diego, in collaboration with Schlaich Bergermann and Partner structural engineers.
Independently, he has designed residential projects in Virginia, Maine, and Ghana.
Taiwan Tower competition (2011)
Wu received his B.S.E. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University, and his MArch from the GSD.
Atlanta History Center competition (2011)
Chris Reed
Chris Reed is Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture and Co-Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is also Founding Director of Stoss Landscape Urbanism . He is recognized internationally as a leading voice in the transformation of landscapes and cities, and he works alternately as a researcher, strategist, teacher, designer, and advisor. Reed is particularly interested in the relationships between landscape and ecology, infrastructure, social spaces, and cities. His work collectively includes urban revitalization initiatives, climate resilience and adaptation efforts, speculative propositions, adaptations of infrastructure and former industrial sites, dynamic and productive landscapes, vibrant public spaces that cultivate a diversity of social uses and cultural traditions, and numerous landscape installations. His work can be found in cities as diverse as Boston, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Dallas, Detroit, Galveston, Abu Dhabi, and Dongshan, China. His work through Stoss has been recognized with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture; the Topos International Landscape Award; and various other practice- and project-based awards from Progressive Architecture, the American Society of Landscape Architects, Azure’s AZ Awards, World Landscape Architecture, the Architectural League of New York, the Waterfront Center, EDRA / Places, and the Boston Society of Architects.
Reed is the co-editor of Projective Ecologies with ecologist and planner Nina-Marie Lister, and co-author of the book Mise-en-Scène: The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes with photographer Mike Belleme. He is a recipient of the 2012 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Landscape Architecture, a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the 2017 Mercedes T. Bass Landscape Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. Reed received a Master in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and an AB in Urban Studies from Harvard College.
George L. Legendre
George Legendre is a founding partner of IJP Architects, a London-based architectural practice exploring the natural intersection between space, mathematics, and computation. Legendre graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1994 and served as lecturer and Assistant Professor of Architecture there from 1995 to 2000. Prior to founding his practice, he was visiting Professor at ETH Zurich (2000), Princeton University (2003-05), and Unit Master of Diploma Unit 5 the AA School of Architecture in London (2002-08). IJP Architects started off with a competition to cover a central London Street with 1000m2 of glass (with AKTII, unbuilt), and completed Henderson Waves, a 1000-foot-long bridge located in Singapore (with RSP). In 2009, it served as delivery architect for the Bat House, a high-tech, sustainable shelter completed in the London Wetlands Centre, and reached the final of the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program Award in 2011. The firm has just completed Equinox, a 7-meter-tall geometric steel sculpture in Birmingham (with artist John Pickering) and is in the process of building Dubai Creek Harbour Central Footbridge, a 230-meter long, two storey steel footbridge in Dubai Creek, UAE.
The work of IJP Architects has been profiled in more than 50 publications worldwide, including theory reviews (ARQ Cambridge University, JAE), science journals (The New Scientist, Spektrum der Wissenschaft), architecture and engineering trade publications (Ingenia Royal College of Engineering, Building Design, AD), international print media (The New York Times , The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, GQ, Gastronomica) as well as US radio and television, (National Public Radio, CBS on Sunday).
IJP Architects has won 15 awards and shortlists since its inception and was included in The New Arcadians: Emerging UK Architects (Merrell 2013) as a future vanguard of the profession in the United Kingdom.
A regularly published essayist, George L. Legendre has written IJP: The Book of Surfaces, as well as Bodyline: the End of our Meta-Mechanical Body, and the main critical essay in Mathematical Form: John Pickering and the Architecture of the Inversion Principle (all AA Publications 2003-06). He has guest-edited a special issue of AD Magazine on the Mathematics of Space (John Wiley and Sons, London, 22 July 2011). His latest research opus, Pasta by Design, was published by Thames and Hudson, London, on Sept. 12 2011 and translated into German the following year. Penrose Room, Legendre’s collaborative research piece on Sir John Penrose’s P2 aperiodic tiling graced the cover of Log 43, which also included his 5 Form Haikus (Anyone Corporation, New York 2018).
Preston Scott Cohen
Preston Scott Cohen is the Gerald M. McCue Professor in Architecture and Director of the Master in Architecture II Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
He is also founder and principal of Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. of Cambridge, MA.
The architecture of Preston Scott Cohen encompasses diverse scales and types of buildings including houses, educational facilities, cultural institutions, and urban designs for private owners, institutions, government agencies, and corporations.
Recent projects include: Datong City Library [2008-2013], The Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building, Tel Aviv, Israel [2003-2011], Taiyuan Museum of Art, Taiyuan, China [2007–2013], Nanjing Performing Arts Center, Nanjing, China [2007-2009], The Goldman Sachs Canopy, with Pei Cobb Freed Associates, New York, NY [2005-2008], Robbins Elementary School, Trenton, New Jersey [2005-2011], Goodman House, Pine Plains, New York [2002-2004].
Awards include the Progressive Architecture Award for Taiyuan Museum of Art [2010]; First Prize, Taiyuan Museum International Competition [2007]; First Prize Competition Robbins Elementary School, Trenton, NJ [2005]; Academy Award in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters [2004]; Progressive Architecture Award, Architecture Tel Aviv Museum of Art [2004]; First Prize, Herta and Paul Amir International Competition for the New Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art [2003]; Progressive Architecture Awards: Torus House [2000], Terminal House [1998].
He is the author of Contested Symmetries (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001) and numerous theoretical and historical essays on architecture. His work has been widely published and exhibited and is in numerous collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard. He lectures regularly in prestigious venues around the world.
Cohen’s work has been the subject of numerous theoretical assessments by renowned critics and historians including Nicolai Ouroussoff, Sylvia Lavin, Antoine Picon, Michael Hays, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Terry Riley, Robert Somol, Hashim Sarkis and Rafael Moneo. Cohen has held faculty positions at Princeton University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Ohio State University. He was the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto in 2004 and the Perloff Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002.
Selected Publications (PDF)