DESIGN WITH NATURE – ANNE WHISTON SPIRNUrban & Environmental Theory Session EPFL

Monday 23 September 2024, 6.30 pm
Anne Whiston Spirn
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
In discussion with Paola Viganò, Professor, LAB-U, EPFL

“Human survival depends upon adapting ourselves and our landscapes – cities, buildings, roadways, rivers, fields, forests – in new, life-sustaining ways, shaping places that are functional, sustainable, meaningful, artful, and just, places that help us feel and understand the relationship of the natural and the built. My career as an author, photographer, landscape architect, and teacher has been dedicated to this goal.” Anne Whiston Spirn

Anne Whiston Spirn is an American landscape architect, photographer and author. Her work promotes community-oriented spaces that are functional, sustainable, meaningful, and artful. Spirn is Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. She is the 2001 winner of the International Cosmos Prize.