Curriculum vitae
ANITA BERRIZBEITIA

Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Graduate School of Fine Arts University of Pennsylvania
119 Meyerson Hall
Philadelphia, PA USA
(215) 898 4909
e-mail berrizbe@pobox.upenn.edu

1. Present Appointment

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania

2. Teaching and Research Areas

Landscape architectural design and theory, with a focus on the productive functions and roles of Modern and contemporary urban landscapes.

3. Academic Appointments

2001 Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania

1998 - 2001 Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania

Option Studios

- "Incorporating the Margins: the Rehabilitation of a Venezuelan Barrio" (s 2001) - "Private/Public: the Dialectics of Double Lives"(s1999) - "Imprint: Resemblance Through Contact" (s 2000) DOE Studios: - "Index, Measure, Change" (f 1998, 99, 00) Seminars: - "Landscape Architecture Culture since 1969" (f 2000) Workshop: - Coordinator, workshop sequence (1999 - present) Committees: - Admissions Committee (1998-present) - Curriculum Committee (1999- present) - Architecture Theory Faculty Search (s 2000) - Ecology Faculty Search (s2001)

1993-1998 Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University GSD

Studios

- First Semester Core Design Studio (Coordinator: 1993, 1994, 1997) - Fourth Semester Planning Studio (w/ Carl Steinitz) - Option studio - La Reserva Ecológica de Buenos Aires (w/ George Hargreaves) Seminars - Modernism and the Industrial Landscape - Technology, Culture, and 20th Century Landscape - Advanced Theory of Landscape Architecture Committees - Admissions Committee (1993-1998) - Curriculum Committee (1993-1994)

1992-1993 Guest Critic and Visiting Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD

1990-91 Academic Director of the Landscape Architecture Program. Career Discovery Program. Harvard University Graduate School of Design

1987 Instructor in Landscape Architecture, Career Discovery Program, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

4. Education

1987 Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge Massachusetts
Master of Landscape Architecture

1983 Radcliffe Seminars, Cambridge Massachusetts
Certificate in Landscape Design
Prize for excellence in Design

1980 Wellesley College, Wellesley Massachusetts
B.A. Studio Art, with distinction, Wellesley College Scholar

1975-77Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas Venezuela
Architecture

5. Books

INSIDEOUTSIDE: Between Architecture and Landscape (Rockport Publishers, Fall 1999), co-authored with Linda Pollak.

Parque del Este: Material and Ideological Transformations of the Public Park, Caracas (1956-1961) (in progress)

6. Book chapters (peer reviewed)

"Scales of Undecidability" in CASE: DOWNSVIEW PARK, Julia Czerniac, ed. (Prestel 2001)

"Roberto Burle Marx and the Parque del Este, Caracas" in Roberto Burle Marx Landscapes Reflected, ed. Rossana Vaccarino, (Princeton Architectural Press, 2000)

"The Amsterdam Bos: The Modern Public Park and the Construction of Collective Experience" in Recovering Landscape, ed. James Corner (Princeton Architectural Press 1999).

"Daniel Urban Kiley: Early Housing Projects and Garden Prototypes 1941-1952" in Daniel Urban Kiley: The Early Gardens (Princeton Architectural Press, 1999)

7. Articles

"Designed Landscape Forum. San Francisco, USA" (review) in Public Art Review Vol. 8 No. 2 (spr/sum 97)

"Between Nature and Culture" in A+U No. 307 April 1996

"Landscape Architecture: the Dialogue Between Society and the Ideological Vision" series editor with Seiko Goto. A+U April-December 1996.

"Design Competition Atlanta" in Landscape Transformed, ed. Michael Spens, James Corner (London, Academy Editions 1996): 78-83

8. Public Lectures and Symposia

"Landscape as Urbanism", Mayor's Conference, Princeton University (September 2001)

"Landscape: Open /Closed", Syracuse University School of Architecture (September 2001)

"Scales of Undecidability" MoMA, New York (November 14, 2000)

Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) "Zooming out: from sympton to design" (2000)

ASLA Centennial "The Forest as Avant-garde: the Last One- Hundred Years Through the Forests We Built" (1999)

"Word and Image: Parque del Este Caracas" Rhode Island School of Design, April 1999

"Word and Image: Roberto Burle Marx and the Parque del Este, Caracas" Burle Marx Symposium. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, November 1998.

"The Amsterdam Bos: The Modern Public Park and the Construction of Collective Experience" Colorado State University, March 1998

"Daniel Urban Kiley: Early Housing Projects and Garden Prototypes" Dan Kiley Symposium. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, November 1997

"Landscape in Movement: the Temporal as paradigm in Contemporary Landscape Architecture" Universidad Central de Venezuela Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, January 1997

"Landscape as Palimpsest" Universidad Central de Venezuela Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, January 1996

Landscape Architecture, Social Ideology and the Politics of Place. Conference Organizer. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, March 1995.

9. Professional Practice

Anita Berrizbeitia Landscape Architect, 1992- present

Consulting Projects (selected):
- 170 Parkside, Boston, Massachussets
- Newton Residence, Princeton, New Jersey
- Rakatah Sheep Ranch, Merida, Venezuela
- Gibbs Residence, Martha's Vineyard, Massachussetts

Child Associates Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts

1992-present Consulting Principal and Director
1989-1992 Associate
1987-1989 Designer
Projects (selected):
- North Cove, Battery Park City, New York
- D. W. Field Park, Brockton, Massachusetts
- Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
- Hobart Cemetery, Troy, Ohio
- Janney Residence, Grand Isle, Vermont
- Richmond Residence, Richmond, Massachusetts

Walmsley & Company, New York, New York (Summer 1986)

Projects:
- Prospect Park Restoration, Brooklyn, New York
- Emerald Necklace Restoration, Boston and Brrokline, Massachussetts

Walker Kluesing Design Group, Boston Massachusetts (Summer 1985)

Projects:
- Mc Lean Hospital Master Plan, Belmont, Massachussets

10. Professional Registration

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, registration number 1048

11. Professional Awards

- 1992 Boston Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award for Design Excellence - Nantucket Residence (Project Landscape Architect for Child Associates)

- 1991 American Society of Landscape architecture Merit Award for Design Excellence - Janney Residence (Project Landscape Architect for Child Associates)

- 1991 Boston Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award for Design Excellence - Janney Residence (Project Landscape Architect for Child Associates)

- 1989 American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award for Design Excellence - Richmond Residence (Project Designer for Child Associates)

12. Grants

Research Foundation, University of Pennsylvania (2000) "Brownfields and post-closure landfills: the re-generation of toxic and waste sites for public use."

Tozier Grant for Faculty Research, Harvard University (1994) "Productive Parks Case Study: The Bos Park, Amsterdam."