James Corner of James Corner Field Operations, NYC and the Department of Landscape Architecture at PennDesign, University of Pennsylvania will lead a pre-lecture discussion at Syracuse Architecture at 2pm.
At 7:30 he will deliver his University Lecture in Hendricks Chapel.
Bio
James Corner is the founding partner and CEO of James Corner Field Operations. He has devoted the past 30 years to advancing the field of landscape architecture and urbanism through his leadership on high-visibility, complex urban projects at Field Operations, as well as through teaching, public speaking, and writing. His work is renowned for innovative and bold contemporary design across a variety of project types and scales, with a special commitment to the design of a vibrant and dynamic public realm in cities, informed and inspired by the ecologies of place, people and nature.
Important public realm design projects include New York’s high-acclaimed High Line; London’s South Park Plaza at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park; Santa Monica’s Tongva Park; Chicago’s Navy Pier; Cleveland’s Public Square; Philadelphia’s Race Street Pier; Hong Kong’s Salisbury Gardens and Tsim Sha Tsui Waterfront; and Shenzhen’s new city of Qianhai, a new coastal for 3-million people. He is currently leading the design for San Francisco’s Presidio New Parklands, a 14-acre new park connecting the Main Post of the Presidio to Crissy Field and the Bay.
James Corner’s work has been recognized with the National Design Award; the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture; and the AA&D Black Pencil Award. His work has been published broadly and exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art; the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum; the National Building Museum; the Royal Academy of Art in London; and the Venice Biennale. His books include The High Line (Phaidon, 2015); The Landscape Imagination (Princeton, 2014), and Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (Yale 1996). He was named by TIME as one of “Ten Most Influential Designers;” by Fast Company as one of the “Top 50 Innovators;” and has been featured in Monocle, the Atlantic, Wallpaper, CultureD, National Geographic, Bloomberg Business Week, and the New York Times among other publications.
Corner is a frequent public speaker. He is an emeritus professor of landscape architecture and urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, and serves on the board of the Urban Design Forum.
