Partner Michelle Delk to deliver the Anne Whiston Spirn Lecture

Michelle Delk, the Laurie Olin Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture at Penn and partner with Snøhetta in New York City, will deliver the inaugural Anne Whiston Spirn Lecture. Delk’s lecture, Snøhetta Landscapes, will focus on her recent work with the firm, where she leads the landscape architecture practice in the Americas.

The Anne Whiston Spirn Lecture is presented annually by The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology to showcase a practitioner or scholar in the field of landscape architecture whose work expands the disciplinary boundaries of research and practice. Housed in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, The McHarg Center was launched in 2019 as a transdisciplinary platform for collaborative research supporting the future of life on Earth. The lecture honors Anne Whiston Spirn (MLA’74), a Penn alumna who led the Department of Landscape Architecture as chair from 1986-1994 and whose work inspires deeper engagements with people and planet.

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