Karen Lutsky
Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Credentials
BA, Brandeis University
MLA, University of Pennsylvania
Professional Experience
- Co-Organizer of World of Matter - UMN - Minneapolis, MN
- Visiting Assistant Professor - University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
- Miggs Caulkin Urban Visiting Professor Fellowship -The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Full-time Adjunct Professor - Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, PA
- Adjunct Professor - Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
- Assistant Instructor - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- Landscape Research Project Manager - PENN Praxis, Philadelphia, PA
- Landscape Design Collaborator, Consultant, or Intern - Olin, Philadelphia, PA, Studio Gang, Chicago, IL, Peter Osler + LVDA, Chicago, IL, APscape Reggio, Calabria, Italy
Selected Scholarship
Publications
- Curious Methods, Places Online Journal, May 2017
- The Wedge; Reclaiming the Littoral Great Lakes, The Third Coast Atlas, edited by Daniel Ibanez, Clare Lyster, Charles Waldheim, and Mason White, Actar Publishing house, forthcoming Fall 2016
- Emergent Shorelines of the Great Lakes, Places Online Journal, March 2015
- Big, Old Tree; New, Big Easy, Scenario Journal, Spring 2014
- Slow Tourism Masterplan for Iglesias, Sardinia, TBD, (co-editor/co-collaborator), Penn PRAXIS
- Saginaw Bay Inventory Maps (instructed student work), Summer 2015, DredgeFest Great Lakes Exhibition
- Approaching the edge; reconsidering the littoral Great Lakes Exhibition, Fall 2014, (photographs and instructed student work), University at Buffalo - SUNY
Conferences and Invited Lectures
- EXTRA; Situating a place for time in the littoral Great Lakes, International Association of Great Lakes Research 2016 Annual Conference (co-presented)
- Muck + A Monoculture; the relationship between Phragmites australis and CDFs, DredgeFest Great Lakes at the University of Minnesota
- The Design of Rivers in the Great Lakes Basin, International Association of Great Lakes Research 2015 Annual Conference
- Approaching the Edge; Reconsidering the Littoral Great Lakes, Liquid Planning Seminar at the Taubman School of Architecture at the University of Michigan (co-presented)
- Post Industrial Watersheds of the Great Lakes Basin, Lawrence Technical University (co-presented)
- Approaching the Edge; reconsidering the Littoral Great Lakes Symposium + Exhibition, University at Buffalo - SUNY (co-organized + curated)
- EXTRA; De-terratorialized Land of the Great Lakes Basin, Environmental Design Research Association Conference 2014 ‘Building with Change’ (co-presented)‘Representation and Communication' Universita Mediterranea Di Reggio Calabria
Teaching
- LA 5203 Ecological Dimensions of Spacemaking
- LA 5376 Representation I
- LA 8206 Making Urban Landscape Space
Selected Honors and Awards
- Curator’s Choice Award for ‘Temporal Archipelago’, 2015 Field Constructs Competition
- Faculty Book Development Grant for ‘EXTRA; Approaching the edge’, Pennsylvania State University
- Faculty Travel Research Grant for ‘Approaching the edge; a study into re-emergent land along the Great Lakes’, Pennsylvania State University
- Faculty Travel Research Grant for ‘Crystal Palace Park; a study in community engagement and the design process’, Pennsylvania State University
- Co-advisor role for UPenn student Wei Chen for ‘See Different, Think Different, Draw Different’, 2012 National ASLA Student Awards
- Student Honor Award in Analysis and Planning for ‘Big Old Tree; New Big Easy’, 2011 National ASLA Award
- Finalist for 2010 OLIN summer fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Faculty
- 2004 Weingarden Award for Environmental Research, Brandeis University
