Jessica Rossi-Mastracci

Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture

Jessica Rossi-Mastracci is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture. She investigates how utilitarian landscape infrastructures and materials can be reimagined as imaginative, generative systems that embrace landscape change and support more-than-human species through utilizing 3D-printing, hybrid representations, lab-based experimentation, and small-scale installations. Prior to teaching, she worked in award-winning landscape architecture and urbanism firms including TEN x TEN in Minneapolis, MN; Bionic Landscape in San Francisco, CA; and West8 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and received her license in Landscape Architecture.

Bridging her experience in professional practice and academia, Jessica investigates new ways of adapting to future unknown conditions in extreme landscapes, with a focus on infrastructure, materiality, and ephemerality. Recent research work catalogs land-based water, fire, and land infrastructures, exploring indigenous, historic, and low-tech infrastructural methodologies and construction methods as ways of speculating on design responses to climate change and urban landscape systems. She teaches in landscape construction, infrastructure and systems, advanced planning and design, digital representation, and graduate design studios.

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Credentials

BA in Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis

MLA, University of Pennsylvania

Teaching

  • LA 3571 Landscape Construction: Site Systems and Engineering
  • LA 5377 Representation II
  • LA 5771 Landscape Infrastructure and Systems I
  • LA 8206 Making Urban Landscape Space
  • LA 8774 Landscape Infrastructure and Systems IV
  • LA 8555 Advanced Landscape Planning and Design (Capstone Studio)

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Faculty Medal in Landscape Architecture (2013)
  • Fort Mason Design Center Competition Winner (with West8, 2012)
  • Narendra Juneja Award (2012)
  • Chair’s Merit Scholarship (2010–2013)
  • Hugh Ferriss Award for Architectural Drawing (2009)
  • Fitzgibbon Scholar (2005–2009)

Jessica Rossi-Mastracci

Jessica Rossi-Mastracci

Contact

CV
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Website
www.jrossimastracci.com
Address
144 Rapson
89 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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