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ALAN BERGER
Harvard GSD/PREX, Boston
Sustainability Visiting Critic
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/prex
Alan Berger is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Berger's research and teaching focus on understanding new forms of landscape that result from rapid horizontal urbanization, natural resource extraction, and other industrial processes, with a particular focus on the United States. A major underlying theme in all of his work is the visual display of information, both through inventive graphic formats and photography. His book, Reclaiming
the American West (Princeton Architectural Press, Nov. 2002), received the 2003 Research Award from the Environmental Design Research Association and Places magazine (EDRA/Places), and was named a 2003 Colorado Book of the Year by the Center for the Book. Berger's most recent book is titled Drosscape:
Wasting Land in Urban America (Princeton ARchitectural Press, spring 2006). Berger directs P-REX, the Harvard Design School Project for Reclamation Excellence.
Berger's work has been published and reviewed in a multidisciplinary array of
publications including AA Files, Landscape Journal, Landscape Architecture, Praxis,
Landscape Review, Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes,
Planning, Public Art Review, and other publications. Prior to coming to the Design
School he was Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University
of Colorado at Denver, 1997–2002; he has also taught at the University of Houston, and the
University of Illinois at Chicago. He has lectured and exhibited work at institutions
worldwide including: University of Pennsylvania, Rice University, Columbia University,
University of Utah, University of Colorado, University of New Mexico, Ohio State
University, University of Toronto, Rhode Island School of Design, University
of Toronto, University of California-Berkeley, Lincoln University in New Zealand,
and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts.
Berger earned his Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, where he received its highest awards for design excellence and research: the Faculty Medal and Van Alen Fellowship. He has been a licensed landscape architect since 1992.
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