Landscape Architect Julia Czerniak to Give Public Lecture
February 15, 2008
Landscape architect Julie Czerniak will give a free public lecture, "Large Parks,” at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 28, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State University Park campus. Czernick is the sixth speaker this year in the Department of Landscape Architecture’s Bracken Lecture series.
Czerniak, a registered landscape architect, is a founder and principal, with Mark Linder, of CLEAR, a transdisciplinary collaborative between architects and others that aspires to both strengthen its disciplinary identity and to expand its range of operations. Her design work has been recognized with numerous awards. Most recently, her collaborations with Field Operations won the Syracuse Connective Corridor competition. With Marpillero Pollak Architects, she won the artNET Public Art Landscape Design Competition in Toledo, Ohio and was also a winner of the 2001 Young Architects Forum competition sponsored by The Architectural League of New York. Her design work for this venue is included in the book Second Nature (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001). Czerniak has exhibited at the Architectural League, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies, the Van Alen Institute, Castle Gallery, Galleria Frau, and Gallery Joe.
Czerniak received her B.S. in landscape architecture from Penn State in 1984, and her M.Arch in 1992 from Princeton University. She is an associate professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture, where she teaches architectural studios as well as seminars on landscape theory and criticism. Educated both as an architect and landscape architect, her research and practice focus on the intersection of these disciplines.
Contact: Brenda Ross, blb1@psu.edu