Architect, Landscape Architect Susannah Drake to Present Lecture on Feb. 10

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This is an image from "A New Urban Ground," created for MOMA's 2010 "Rising Currents" exhibition, which called attention to Manhattan's vulnerability to climate change impacts. For this project, dlandstudio partnered with Architecture Research Office.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Susannah C. Drake will present a lecture titled “The 21^st Century City: Redefining Urbanism in the Era of Climate Change” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture lecture series.

Drake (AIA, ASLA) is the principal of dlandstudio architecture + landscape architecture pllc, an award-winning, multi-disciplinary design firm. The firm is the recipient of national and international urban design awards from the American Institute of Architects, the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Chicago Athenaeum, among others. As one of very few designers of her generation with professional design qualifications in both architecture and landscape architecture, Drake paved the way for more synthetic thinking about urban ecological infrastructure.

She is the recipient of grants from the Graham Foundation, the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, the James Marston Fitch Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Center for Architecture for research on campus landscapes and large-scale urban infrastructure projects. Drake was recently named one of the Architectural League’s 2013 Emerging Voices and given an American Institute of Architects Young Architects Award. She is the former president and trustee of the New York ASLA, trustee of the Van Alen Institute, and visiting studio professor at the Cooper Union and Harvard University. Drake is the author of Elastic Landscape: Seeding Ecology in Public Space & Urban Infrastructure, which was recently published in the collection of essays titled Infrastruktururbanismus.

Drake received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1987 and Master of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture degrees from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1995.

The public is invited to attend. Admission is free, with limited seating.

For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or architecture.uark.edu.