Landscape Institute

Landscape Institute Faculty

The following is a list of the current faculty of the Landscape Institute. Not all faculty members teach every semester.

Phyllis Andersen
MS, Simmons College; Certificate in Landscape Design, Radcliffe College; former director, Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies of the Arnold Arboretum; landscape historian and urban landscape consultant.

Patricia Bales Van Buskirk
MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BA, architecture, University of Virginia; principal, Tricia Bales Landscape Design, Hingham, Massachusetts; registered landscape architect, Massachusetts.

Kyle Bergman
M.Arch. VA Polytechnic Institute; owner, Bergman Design Team; founder, Alt Spec Publishing; instructor, Yestermorrow, Inc., leading tours to Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Mexico, and Russia; lecturer, Smithsonian Institute. www.bergmandesignteam.com

Sandra A. Brock
LEED® AP; BS, civil engineering, University of Lowell; professional engineer, project manager, Nitsch Engineering, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts. www.nitscheng.com 

Catherine Cardamone
Master of Urban Affairs, Boston University; horticulturist and park designer, Town of Natick; Central New York Conservancy, City of Utica; owner, Verde Plantscape Design; former director, Urban Environmental Practices Program; former faculty, Roxbury Community College, Boston, Massachusetts.

Jean Cavanaugh
MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Certificate in Landscape Design, Radcliffe College; landscape architect in private practice, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Yo Yi Chen
Certificate in Landscape Design, Radcliffe Seminars; BS, biology, University of Texas; owner, Yo Yi Design; native of Shanghai, China.

Richard Churchill
EdD, University of Florida; BS and MS, plant pathology, University of Georgia; AS, horticulture, University of Massachusetts; owner, Churchill Horticultural & Arboricultural Consultants; associate editor, People, Places and Plants; English editor, Hunan Forestry Science & Technology, Changsha, China; licensed arborist concentrating his consulting business in the area of arboriculture.

Margie Coffin Brown
MLA, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; BS, plant science, Cornell University; senior project manager, National Park Service Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, where she prepares cultural landscape reports and preservation maintenance plans for public properties throughout the Northeast. www.nps.gov/oclp/index.htm

Nancy S. Coleman
MLA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; BS, journalism, Northwestern University; principal, Shaw Design LLC; formerly project manager and lead designer, Halvorson Design Partnership; formerly project designer, Carol R. Johnson Associates; registered landscape architect, Connecticut.

Laura D. Eisener
MLA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; BA, botany and anthropology, Connecticut College; principal, Laura D. Eisener Landscape Design, Saugus, Massachusetts; associate editor, People, Places and Plants.

Gursan Ergil
BSC, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul; Certificate in Design Management, Bilgi University, Istanbul; Certificates in Landscape Design and Landscape Design History, Landscape Institute; former director of interior design firm Woodhouse Co. in Istanbul; lecturer on Islamic Gardens; currently based in Istanbul, he continues to write articles, and design furniture and gardens. www.gursanergil.com

Elizabeth S. Eustis
MA, history of decorative arts with a concentration on garden history, Cooper Hewitt National Museum and Parsons School of Design; AB, comparative literature, Smith College; former co-instructor, Bard College; specialist in the history of printed garden views and 19th-century gardening magazines; co-curator and co-author of the catalog for an exhibition on “Romanticism in the Landscape”, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, opening Spring 2010; adjunct curator and writer/co-author of three Morgan Library exhibition catalogs, New York Botanical Garden Library.

Sally S. Fine
MFA, Boston University; BFA, Ohio University; principal, S.S. Fine Design; artist and graphic designer; former Associate Professor of Visual Art, Regis College; currently teaching perspective drawing for the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, online division; design work is exhibited locally and internationally; two- and three-dimensional art can be found in numerous national and international museums and collections. www.sallyfine.com

Michael Fiorillo
MArch, Rhode Island School of Design; BA philosophy, Rutgers College; faculty, Boston Architectural College; faculty, New England Institute of Art; former project manager/designer, Mikyoung Kim Design, Brookline, and Payette Associates, Boston; registered landscape architect.

Gina L. Foglia
LEED® AP; MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BS, fine art and horticulture, SUNY Empire State College; former visiting lecturer, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Department of Architecture; partner, Heimarck & Foglia, LLC. www.hf-llc.com/index.html

Steven C. Foster
BLA, Michigan State University; principal, Steven C. Foster Landscape Architecture, Watertown, Massachusetts; practicing landscape consultant; member, American Society of Landscape Architects; registered landscape architect in Massachusetts and Michigan. www.stevencfosterasla.com

John F. Furlong
MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; emeritus director, Landscape Institute, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; board member, COGDesign; cited by the trustees of Radcliffe College as Distinguished Radcliffe Seminars Instructor; fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects; recipient, Gold Medal, Massachusetts Horticultural Society; registered landscape architect; board member, Friends of Fairsted, Brookline, MA.

Kanchi Gandhi
PhD, Texas A&M University; recipient, Donovan Stewart Correll Memorial Award, Native Plant Society of Texas (1994); editor, International Plant Name Index, Harvard University Herbaria; former assistant professor, The National College, Bangalore-4, India; nomenclature editor, Flora of North America; member, Committee for the Spermatophyta, International Association for Plant Taxonomy; associate editor, Rhodora, journal of the New England Botanical Club; associate nomenclature editor, Taxon, International Journal of Plant Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Evolution. www.huh.harvard.edu/Research/faculty_staff/gandhi.html

Lisa Giersbach
LEED® AP; MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BA, art history and studio art, Grinnell College; instructor, Harvard GSD Career Discovery Program and the Boston Architectural Center; guest lecturer and critic, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Senior Associate, Richard Burck Associates, Inc.; member, American Society of Landscape Architects; registered landscape architect, Massachusetts. www.richardburck.com

Heather D. Heimarck
MLA, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; BFA, sculpture, University of Michigan; director, Landscape Institute, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; principal, Heimarck & Foglia; former visiting faculty, Rhode Island School of Design and the Boston Architectural College; former principal instructor for landscape architecture, Harvard GSD Career Discovery Program; registered landscape architect, Massachusetts and Rhode Island; recipient, Harvard’s Webel Prize; merit awards, Massachusetts Horticultural Society. www.hf-llc.com

Elizabeth Igleheart
MSHP, Columbia University School of Architecture; former director of landscapes, Historic New England (formerly the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities); co-curator, “Lost Gardens of New England,” Historic New England; architectural historian and preservation planner.

Alice E. Ingerson
Ph.D., cultural anthropology, Johns Hopkins University; applied history consultant for conservation and urban planning projects; instructor and curriculum coordinator, Environmental Citizenship Academy, University of Massachusetts, Boston; 2002-03 Bullard Fellow, Harvard Forest.

Ann Kearsley
MLA, MLAUD, Harvard Graduate School of Design; AB, Dartmouth College, English and comparative literature; owner/principal, Ann Kearsley Design, Portland, Maine; registered landscape architect, Arizona and Maine. www.annkearsley.com

Gary Koller
MS, public garden administration, University of Delaware; BS, ornamental horticulture, Pennsylvania State University; AS, landscape design, Temple University; president, Koller and Associates; former assistant director for horticulture, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University; former visiting faculty member, Harvard Graduate School of Design and University of Massachusetts; contributor, Arnoldia, Fine Gardening, and American Nurseryman; recipient, the Julie Morris Award and Gold Medal, Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Clare Walker Leslie
BA, Carleton College; visiting lecturer, Williams College, Massachusetts College of Art, Antioch University New England, National Audubon Society, and numerous other nature centers and educational institutions; author, The Art of Field Sketching and Nature Drawing: A Tool for Learning; co-author, The Ancient Celtic Festivals: And How We Celebrate Them Today, and Keeping a Nature Journal: Discover a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You.

John Madama
BS, environmental science with minor in art, Rutgers University; master’s program, plant and animal physiology, Fairleigh Dickinson University; instructor, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Radcliffe Seminars, and WGBH-TV; author/illustrator, Visual Design and Digital Image Processing (Harvard University and MIT); Desktop Publishing: The Art of Communications (Learner Publications); and co-author/illustrator, Endless Possibilities.

Dan McAllister
MS, geography and business administration, Salem State; BS, more than 10-year span of experience in the green industry ranging from water systems hydraulics, irrigation, and outdoor lighting; principal, Nite Image, Inc.; certification, lighting, CAST lighting Advanced Installation, certification, design, Rutgers University; certification Unique Lighting Design Mfg. Certification; member, LVLIA (Low-Voltage Lighting Institute Assoc.); member, Designers Lighting Forum of New England; vendor, Boston Society of Landscape Architects.

Eleanor M. McPeck
MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BA, art history, Connecticut College; associate fellow, Silliman College, Yale University; practicing landscape consultant; former visiting lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design and University of California, Berkeley; co-author, Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes (1985); curator, “A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time,” exhibition of drawings by J.B. Jackson, Municipal Art Society; frequent contributor to Landscape Architecture and other landscape publications.

Marty Michener
PhD, biology, Harvard University; BS, biology, Cornell University; president, MIST Software Associates; consultant, AMRO Environmental Laboratories; former adjunct professor, Antioch University New England; former executive director, New England Institute for Environmental Studies; principal investigator, National Cooperative Highway Research Program’s Remote Sensing and Other Technology for the Identification and Classification of Wetlands; former field coordinator, Wetland Studies for Add-A-Lane Project, Massachusetts Department of Highways; author of the Wetland Site Index method and Enjoy Birds software.

Susan Pashman
Certificate in Landscape Design, Landscape Institute of Harvard University; MPhil, Columbia University; BA, philosophy, New York University; JD, Brooklyn Law School; former faculty, Adelphi University; former assistant dean, Douglass College of Rutgers University; author, The Speed of Light (1997) and several short stories; directed a grant-funded humanities program about changing suburban life to better meet women’s needs.

Marion Pressley
MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BLA and BS, State University of New York, Syracuse; fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects; principal, Pressley Associates Inc.; instructor, Rhode Island School of Design; registered landscape architect, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania; chair, Massachusetts Registration Board for Landscape Architects; recipient, Gold Medal, Massachusetts Horticultural Society; honor and merit awards in design, Boston Society of Landscape Architects. www.pressleyinc.com

Walter T. Punch
MLS, Simmons College; MA, University of Massachusetts; director, alumni library, and adjunct faculty, Wentworth Institute of Technology; former head librarian, Massachusetts Horticultural Society; general editor, Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America (1992).

Priscilla Randall
MLA, University of Virginia; principal, Randall & Rich Registered Landscape Architects; visiting faculty, Rhode Island School of Design and University of Louisiana, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; her work includes Arc Seawalls, a seawall project in Massachusetts, sold by Christie’s as in situartwork; currently lives part of the year in southwest France; projects include Jardin d’hiver Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, propriété for Boyle Family of artists, Chateau La Bastide, the U.S. National Park Service.

Todd Richardson
MLA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; principal, Richardson & Associates, Inc., Saco, Maine; cited by the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as Distinguished Radcliffe Seminars Instructor; former instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Massachusetts, and Bowdoin College; registered landscape architect, Massachusetts and Maine; 2009 Honor Award in Design for “A New England Lakeside Retreat” from the Boston Society of Landscape Architecture; other merit awards in design and planning, Boston Society of Architects. www.richardsonassociates.com

Paul E. Rogers
BS, Clark University; horticultural consultant; proprietor, Stonehedge Garden Greenhouses; radio commentator and newspaper columnist; recipient, Director’s Silver Medal, Worcester County Horticultural Society.

Skip Schiel
BS, University of Washington; graduate studies, Tufts University; studied with Minor White; photographed and published environmental series about water, the Great Plains, and California live oaks; freelance photographer, Teeksa Photography.

Ellen Schneider
MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BA, biology, Williams College; landscape project manager, City of Somerville, Massachusetts; former principal instructor of landscape architecture, Harvard GSD Career Discovery Program; former studio instructor and critic, Boston Architectural College.

Chuck Sherzi, Jr.
BS, plant and soil science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; AS, horticulture, Massachusetts Bay Community College; graduate studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; landscape design studies, Radcliffe Seminars; member, COGDesign Advisory Board; certified arborist, International Society of Arboriculture and Massachusetts Arborist Association; certified horticulturist, Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association; organic land care professional, Northeast Organic Farm Association (NOFA); certified soil food-web advisor, Soil Foodweb, Inc.

Nan Sinton
MS, Boston University; CAS, University of Georgia; BA, Queen’s University of Belfast; Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London; president and co-founder, Sinton & Michener Associates Inc.; co-authored with Dr. David C. Michener, the Taylor’s Guide to Ground Covers (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001). She is a horticultural educator, garden designer, writer, and national lecturer on design and planting who has led an international series of garden seminars, tours and symposiums for two decades; her work in horticultural outreach and education has been recognized by the Garden Club of America, and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society who awarded her a Gold Medal in 2005.

Marie Stella
MA, history, New York University; MS, management, Lesley College; certificates, Radcliffe Seminars Landscape Design and Landscape Design History Program, Radcliffe College; adjunct faculty, New York Botanical Garden, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, The Institute of Ecosystem Studies, and Cooper Union; landscape historian and designer; designed the first single family home certified LEED Platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED® for Homes rating system (2009).

Judith B. Tankard
MA, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; BA, art history, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; architectural historian; editor, Journal of the New England Garden History Society; author, The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman (Sagapress/ Abrams, 1997); co-author, A Place of Beauty: The Artists and Gardens of the Cornish Colony (Ten Speed Press, 2000), and Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood (Sagapress, 1996); recipient, Quill and Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association and Gold Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Will Trimble
MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Bachelor of Industrial Design, North Carolina State University; project designer, Richard Burck Associates; instructor, Boston Architectural College. www.richardburck.com.

Paul Van Broekhoven
BSEE, Syracuse University; MBA, Northeastern University; Certificate in Landscape Design, Landscape Institute of Harvard University; member, American Society of Landscape Architects; practicing engineer, engineering manager, and entrepreneur for 35 years; holder of five U.S. patents.

Michael Veracka
MLA, Rhode Island School of Design; BA, English, Providence College; owner, Michael Veracka Landscape Gardeners, specializing in landscape design and construction; incoming Chair and Assistant Professor of Ornamental Horticulture, Farmingdale State College, at the State University of New York; adjunct instructor, Rhode Island School of Design; his work has won numerous design awards and has been featured in Garden Design Magazine, Organic Gardening Magazine, the Boston Globe, and other publications. www.michaelveracka.com

Roger L. Washburn
MLA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; BA, environmental design, University of Washington; landscape architect, Roger Washburn Landscape Architecture, Somerville,Massachusetts; former landscape architect, The Architects Collaborative, Cambridge, Massachusetts; adjunct faculty, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; recipient, Boston Society of Landscape Architects design awards. www.washburnla.com

Michael Wasser
MLA, University of Virginia; BLA, University of Minnesota; founding partner of Hines/Wasser + Associates, Boston; visiting critic, Rhode Island School of Design; faculty and thesis advisor, Boston Architectural College; certified by the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards; registered landscape architect in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and Minnesota. www.hineswasser.com

V. Michael Weinmayr
MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; BSLA, Penn State University; fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects; principal, Weinmayr Associates, Inc.; registered landscape architect; co-author, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (University of Massachusetts Press, 1968); award recipient, Distinguished Alumni, One Hundred Years of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University 1900-2000. www.weinmayrassociates.com

Catherine Wiersema
MBA, Simmons College; Certificate in Landscape Design, Radcliffe Seminars; principal, Boussard Garden Design; former associate professor of management in strategy, leadership, and marketing, Simmons Graduate School of Management.

Tobias Wolf
MLA, Cornell University; BA, Design of the Environment, University of Pennsylvania; senior associate, Halvorson Design, Boston; former instructor, Rhode Island School of Design and Cornell University; registered landscape architect, New York and Connecticut. www.halvorsondesign.com

Louise J. Wolfe
MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design; JD, New York University School of Law; BA, Cornell University; attorney, writer, and nonprofit manager with experience in visual arts; landscape research studies, including river restoration, estuarine restoration, Finnish landscape theory and the work of Reima Pietila, and information-sharing among American nonprofit river protection programs.

Crystal Woodward
PhD, art psychotherapy, The Union Institute; MFA, painting, Pratt Institute; MA, art psychotherapy, Goddard College; BFA, painting, Syracuse University; exhibitions, France, Germany, and the United States; former instructor, Sarah Lawrence College and the Cleveland Institute of Art.

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