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Passionate about developing natural based and technological decarbonizing solutions to climate change that adds a visionary direction to urban landscape design proposals. Current R + D focuses beyond adaptation and resilience in the built environment to mitigation of the climate emergency and upon the role that landscape architecture can perform to reverse, repair and regenerate the earth's climate. Member of the Climate Task Force for the Landscape Architecture Foundation. Research Associate at Harvard Graduate School of Design; Consultant and Associate with Martha Schwartz Partners. Current teaching kids climate change, working on a book for children about climate change and introducing them to landscape architectural solutions that adapt and mitigate the climate crisis in the built world.TeachingHarvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Ma. Teaching AssociateVisiting Critic: Greenwich University, UKUniversity of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning. Design studios, History + Theory.University of Southern California School of Architecture. Design Studio, History + Theory.Harvard Graduate School of Design: Guest Critic Final Landscape Studio ReviewsSelected Writing"The Designer's Geoengineering Toolkit." Co-authored with Martha Schwartz. (Landscape Architecture Journal. China. December 2020)"Don't Go Near The Water - Re-imagining China's Urban Waterfronts." Dumbarton Oaks. (Harvard University Press. 2018) "Landscapes in Fourth Nature." Precis. (Columbia School of Architecture. 1996)Selected LecturesECLAS. European Council of Landscape Architects. Istanbul, Turkey.DIALOG 360: Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM.; "Love, Death and Memory in the Landscape" Hawaii International Conference on the Arts; "The Space of the Picturesque: Landscape and Modernist Architecture" USC Los Angeles, CA; "Simulation and Themed Environments in the Built World" J. B. Jackson and American Landscape, UNM Albuquerque, NM.Selected Publications of Projects Harris Residence. "Private Paradise: Contemporary American Gardens" by Charlotte Frieze. (Monticelli Press. 2011)Siri Hari Khalsa Angleton Garden. Espanola, NM. (Architectural Digest 2010) Byrd-Sass Residence, Santa Fe, NM. ( Houses of the Desert. 2008) Foote Residence, Santa Fe, NM (Santa Fe Trend Magazine) Curandera's Garden: Sur y Norte. Visionary Landscape Award.(Landscape Architecture Magazine.1995)

Listed skills include Writing, Residential Design, Rendering, Site Plans, and 32 others.