MPA’s partners share a commitment to education and outreach. In addition to long-standing teaching appointments, they share their projects and research at venues including universities, professional organizations, and city agencies. The following is a list of selected presentations.
LP, “Rights of Way: A New Politics of Movement in New York City?” Barnard College, November 2009
SM/LP, “Queens Plaza: Infrastructure Reframed,” Urban Omnibus/The Architectural League of New York, June 2009
SM/LP, “New York Designs: Public – GreenBranches Learning Gardens – Becoming Public,” The Architectural League of New York, June 2009
LP, “Fit City 4: Promoting Physical Activity Through Design,” Moderator and Presenter, Center for Architecture/AIA NYC Chapter, June 2009
LP, “Active Design Guidelines,” Presenter, AIA National Convention and Design Exposition, April 2009
SM, “Library at the Center of Community,” AIA New York City Chapter, April 2009
SM/LP, “Queens Plaza and Other Stories,” Washington University in St. Louis, March 2009
SM/LP, “Architecture in Contexts,” NYC Department of Design and Construction TALKS, November 2008
SM, “Urban Sublime,” Columbia University GSAPP, Fall 2008
LP, “Designing Parks,” Parks Service, Van Allen Institute, UVA, 2008
SM/LP, “Quasi-Objects,” University of Pennsylvania, Department of Landscape Architecture, February 2008
LP, “GreenBranches Learning Gardens,” Open House New York TALKS, The Horticultural Society of New York, 2006-2008
SM, “Strategic Thresholds,” Harvard GSD, 2007
LP, “Fit City: Promoting Physical Activity through Design,” Panelist, AIA New York City Chapter, May 2006
SM, “Urban Inhabitation,” Harvard GSD, 2006
SM, “Strategic Thresholds,” University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture, Lecture Series, 2006
SM/LP, “Paradoxical Spaces,” RISD Department of Architecture, Lecture Series, Fall 2006
SM, “And,” Princeton University, Ph.D. Colloquium Series, Fall 2005
SM, “Infrastructures,” Columbia University GSAPP, Urban Design Lecture Series, Summer 2005
LP, “the back-and-forth thing,” Arizona State University Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 2005
LP/SM, “And,” Serralves Museum & Foundation Symposium on Landscape & Architecture, Porto Portugal, 2005
LP, “Architecture as a Career,” Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Symposium for Teens, 2005
SM, “Uncanny Thresholds,” Yale University Department of Architecture, Symposium: Architecture & Psychoanalysis, 2004
LP, “Inside Outside: between architecture and landscape,” with Maryann Thompson, Build Boston, 2004
LP, “Landscape within Architecture,” Roundtable discussion, The Architectural League of New York, 2004
SM, “Environmental Thresholds,” Columbia University GSAPP, Lunchtime Lectures, Summer 2004
LP, “Ground between Architecture and Landscape,” American Academy in Rome, 2004
LP, “Sites out of mind,” University of Virginia, symposium, 2004
SM, “Recent Work,” University of Venice, Institute of Architecture, Lecture Series, Summer 2003
LP, “Landscape Urbanism,” Urban Design Institute, symposium, 2003
LP, “Designing the Highline,” Architects Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, symposium, 2003
LP, “Going Public,” Van Alen Institute, 2003
LP, “Fresh Kills/Large Park,” Harvard University GSD, Department of Landscape Architecture, Large Parks Conference, 2003
SM, “Thresholds,” Harvard University GSD, Lecture Series, Fall 2002
SM, “Through the Looking Glass,” University of Pennsyslvania, Lecture Series, Spring 2002
LP, “Practice between Landscape and Architecture,” University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture, 2002
LP, “Paradoxical Everyday Spaces,” Georgia Tech School of Architecture, 2002
LP, “Building as Site/Performing the Kitchen,” The Kitchen: center for video, music, dance, performance, and literature, 2002
LP, “Everyday Spaces: three projects,” Fitness of Cities, Salt Lake City Planning Commission, 2002
LP, “Vision and Ethics in City Building,” Physical Fitness of Cities conference, Salt Lake City Planning Commission, 2002
LP, “Marked Landscapes / Eibs Pond Park,” conversation with Mikael Levin, Photographer, Design Trust for Public Space, 2001
LP, “Paradoxical spaces,” SUNY Stonybrook NY, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, 2001
LP, “Recent Work/ Building City Landscape,” Harvard University GSD / Loeb Fellowship Program, 2001
SM, “Marginal Areas in New York City,” University of Pescara, Chieti, Italy, Symposium Sring 2000
LP, “Recent Work/ Building City Landscape,” Rensaleer Polytechnic Institute, 2000
LP, “Recent Work/Partially Open Spaces” Mississippi State University, 2000
LP, “Building City Landscape,” and “Landscape Urbanism,” symposium, University of Toronto, Canada, 2000
LP, “Petrosino Park/Questions of Scale,” Harvard University Law School; Interdisciplinary Dialogue Lecture Series, 2000
LP, “Inside Outside: between architecture and landscape” University of Pennsylvania Department of Landscape Architecture, 2000
LP, “Kevin Kieran Memorial Symposium: Spirituality in Architecture,” University College of Dublin, Ireland, 2000
LP, “Conference on Design Issues Facing Mayors of Five midsize American Cities,” Mayor’s Institute of City Design, Austin, TX, 2000
LP, “Monumentality and the Culture of Exhibition,” ACSA Section Chair 2000, Los Angeles, CA, 2000
LP, “Questions of Scale,” Pratt Institute of Architecture, 2000
SM, “Strategic Threshold,” University of Texas at Arlington, Lecture Series, Spring 1999
SM, “Current Work,” RISD Department of Architecture, Lecture Series, Fall 1999
SM, “Urban Trans-Formations,” Columbia University, Architecture Lecture Series, Summer 1997-98-99
LP, “Thinking About Landscape: Interdisciplinary Contributions of the 1990s,” Harvard GSD, Department of Landscape Architecture, 1999
LP, “Asia GSD: Third Space Asian Manifestations” Harvard University GSD, 1999
SM, “Scores and Scars: Architecture and Urban Design,” Fachochschule, Hamburg, Germany, Lecture Series, Spring 1998
LP, “Building City Landscape/Questions of Scale” Stadelschule, Frankfurt, Germany, Lecture Series, 1998
LP, “Constructing Ground: New Paradigms for Urban Outdoor Spaces” Hammons School of Architecture, Springfield, MO, 1998
LP, “Landscape Urbanism,” Graham Foundation, 1998
LP, “Women in Architecture,” Radcliffe College, 1998
SM, “Collage City, Again?” Drury College, The Hammons School of Architecture, Lecture Series, 1997-98
SM, “Space, Art and the City,” Pratt Institute, The Urban Design Seminar Series, Fall 1997
LP, “Landscape Urbanism; conference,” University of Illinois/ Graham Foundation, 1997
LP, “Absent Walls & other Boundary Stories” Harvard University GSD, 1997
SM, “Recent Projects,” Princeton University, Spring Semester Talks, 1996
LP, “Building City Landscape,” University of British Columbia Department of Architecture, Vancouver, BC, 1996
LP, “Building City Landscape,” Rhode Island School of Design, 1996
LP, Roundtable discussion on design publishing, Harvard University, Harvard Design Magazine, 1996
LP, “Public Spaces in the Late 20th Century,” symposium, Storefront for Art & Architecture & The Cooper Union, NYC, 1996
SM, “Inspiration to Order,” Harvard University GSD, Architecture Lecture Series, Fall 1995
LP, ”Landscape Architecture, Social Ideology & the Politics of Place,” conference, Harvard University GSD, 1995
LP, “Limited Interventions: Urban/ /Nature/ /Paradigms,” Columbia University GSAPP, Urban Design Program, 1995
LP, “Constructing Ground: A Framework for Practice,” The Architectural League of New York, 1995
LP, “Denaturalized Urbanity,” Symposium, moderator, Harvard University GSD, 1995
LP, “Hans Scharoun’s Berlin Philharmonic,” Symposium, moderator, Harvard University GSD, 1994
SM, “Recent Italian Housing and Community Design,” Parsons School of Design, Lecture Series, Spring 1993
LP, “Issues in Art and Design Education: Looking Toward the Future,” Roundable discussion, RISD, 1992
SM, “Dialogue with the Minimal: Italian Architecture of the 1950s – 1970s,” Columbia University, Buell Center, 1991
SM, “The Design Work / Dreaming the Project,” Rhode Island School of Design, Spring Lecture Series, 1991
LP, “Le Corbusier’s Le Petit Maison 1923,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1991
LP, “Nature Contained/Nature Re-Presented: Constructing the Garden in the City,” Architecture Club of Miami Lecture Series, 1990, Miami, FL.
SM, “Rehabilitation of Villaggio San Domenico,” Opera Prima Series, Triennale of Milan, 1990
LP, “Domestic Urban Outdoor Space,” Iowa State University of Architecture, Ames, IA, 1990
LP, “Reconstructing Nature: The Garden in the City,” Rhode Island School of Design, 1990
LP, “The Garden in the City: A Retrieval,” Rice University, Department of Architecture, Houston TX, 1988
LP, “The Future of Women in Architecture,” Symposium, Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, 1988
SM, “The Albany Mall Installation,” Empire State Plaza, Albany New York, 1987
LP, “The Garden in the City,” ACSA National Conference Los Angeles, 1987