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Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture Will Go to Michael Van Valkenburgh04-01-10 | News

Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture Will Go to Michael Van Valkenburgh




Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, will receive the Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, an award rarely given to a
landscape architect.
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The Harvard Crimson reports its own Graduate School of Design (GSD) Professor Michael Van Valkenburgh, a landscape architect and 1994 Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, will receive the American Academy of Arts and Letters?EUR??,,????'?????<

Van Valkenburgh is the only living GSD professor to receive this award, which is rarely bestowed to a landscape architect.

Van Valkenburgh oversees the Cambridge and New York offices of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), a noted landscape architecture firm in business for over 20 years. The firm?EUR??,,????'?????<

Hugh Hardy, a member of the Brunner Prize awards committee, said Van Valkenburgh?EUR??,,????'?????< urban environments.

Van Valkenburgh has been a member of the Harvard faculty at the School of Design since 1982, the program director (1987-1989) and chairman of the landscape architecture department (1991-1996).

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Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA, an adjunct professor at the GSD and principal of Reed Hilderbrand Associates, Inc., describes Van Valkenburgh?EUR??,,????'?????< by emphasizing.?EUR??,,????'?????<

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