CURRENT WORK: Michael Van Valkenburgh

PARKS, A CAMPUS, AND THREE SUMMER HOUSE GARDENS Michael Van Valkenburgh / MVVA Michael Van Valkenburgh will present the recent work of his firm, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA). Based in Brooklyn and Cambridge, MVVA is a landscape architecture firm, which works on projects in scale from the city to the campus to the garden. MVVA’s commissions have sought to achieve an “ecological urbanism,” with projects such as the Master Plans for Brooklyn Bridge Park and Wellesley College, and built work like Mill Race Park and Allegheny Riverfront Park. Van Valkenburgh earned a B.S. in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University’s College of Agriculture, and a M.F.A. in Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently the Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Van Valkenburgh teaches landscape design as well as the use of plants as design material. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy of Landscape Architects. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TICKETING PLEASE VISIT: http://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/lecture-michael-van-valkenburgh-mvva THE GREAT HALL | THE COOPER UNION | NYC Co-sponsored by the Architecture League of New York