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FASLA 2009 Niall Kirkwood09-01-09 | News

Profile: Niall Kirkwood




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Niall Kirkwood


ASLA Chapter: Boston

Category: Knowledge

Company/academic title: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Mass.

Education: B.S. in 1976 and bachelor of architecture in 1978 from the University of Manchester, UK, and his MLA in 1985 from the University of Pennsylvania. Honorary bachelor of arts from Harvard in 2002 and an honorary doctor of science from the University of Ulster in 2009.

Niall Kirkwood was nominated by the Boston Chapter for his years as a landscape architecture educator and researcher specializing in technology and its relationship to landscape architecture design. He has developed a comprehensive body of knowledge through publications, academic graduate courses, and curriculum development on landscape technology. He also serves as director of Harvard?EUR??,,????'???s Center for Technology and Environment research center.

Thoughts from a Peer: ?EUR??,,????'??Since arriving at Harvard as a junior faculty member Niall has grown intellectually. Long before he rose to the position of chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture there, and while tending to upgrading and improving its curriculum, he was influencing and sharing his insight, knowledge and research with his students who are now distributed around our nation and world.?EUR??,,????'??
?EUR??,,????'??+ Laurie Olin, FASLA

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