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Landscape Architecture academic is awarded professorship stateside

RP/5113 1 st September 2008

Kathryn Moore, Professor of Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City University and former Landscape Institute President, has been asked to take up the prestigious position of Thomas Jefferson Foundation Visiting Professorship at the University of Virginia, USA this autumn.

Popularly viewed as a more technological profession, Kathryn’s work highlights landscape architecture as a subject which, through the use of design, enables the transformation of ideas into reality to shape the quality of experience. Her research has taken her all over the world from the USA to Turkey and Iran and it was her international reputation in the field which led to the University of Virginia offering her the position of visiting professorship. The University believes her knowledge of design in landscape architecture will bring unique skills and perspectives to the courses taught within their university.

Kathryn’s in depth knowledge of the subject has enabled her to work on a wide range of high profile projects including Birmingham’s Living Landmarks Big Lottery Fund, commissioned by Birmingham City Council, and as a juror for the Velodrome Park for the Olympic Development Agency, London. She has been called upon to deliver speeches at the Houses of Parliament and has recently been invited to participate in the Fall 2008 Lecture Series at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

The research has been integral to her teaching at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level in landscape architecture at Birmingham City University and also informs her own consultancy, Design MUSE (Modern Urban Sustainable Environments). The consultancy specialises in masterplanning, urbanism, research and education and is currently collaborating with Capita Lovejoy in the concept design of Rally Park in Leicester. Her research can soon be viewed in the form of her book ‘Overlooking the visual, Demystifying the Art of Design’ which is due for publication in spring 2009.

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