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Faculty Profile

Leonard Mirin

Leonard Mirin

"I am interested in providing intelligent and sensitive understanding to initiate and continue the process of siting and construction of structures."

title

Associate Professor

department

Architecture

address

122 West Sibley Hall

phone

(607) 255-7909

email

ljm3@cornell.edu
Most architecture begins on the ground. As a landscape architect, I am interested in providing intelligent and sensitive understanding to initiate and continue the process of siting and construction of structures. My interest in the broad historical traditions of site planning as design on the land provide a multiplicity of models for inspiration based on the intelligence of the past. I view contemporary concerns, such as “sustainability” and “green architecture,” as mostly new reflections on traditional methods.

education

  • B.A. Columbia University
  • M.L.A. University of Michigan

work

  • Coffey, Levine & Blumberg
  • Pat Campbell Associates
  • Leonard Mirin Associates

courses

  • Site Planning
  • Introductory Landscape Architectural Design
  • History of European Landscape Architecture
  • History of American Landscape Architecture
  • Theories, Principles and Methods of Japanese Architecture
  • Pathways to the Modern Landscape

research

  • Urban Landscape Architecture
  • The Modern Landscape
  • Japanese Gardens and Architecture