– Landscape Architecture & Urbanism, USC –
Alexander Robinson is a landscape architect and design scholar. He is Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture & Urbanism program in the University of Southern California School of Architecture and principal of the Office of Outdoor Research in Los Angeles, California. His last book, co-authored with Liat Margolis, Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture (Birkhäuser, 2007), is a bestselling treatise on landscapes as material performance systems. His recent design and scholarly research into the design of landscape infrastructures, such as the Los Angeles River and Owens Lake, has been featured in the press, multiple books, and exhibitions. In 2015, he was awarded the American Academy in Rome, Prince Charitable Trust Rome Prize. His upcoming book, “The Spoils of Dust: Reinventing the Lake that Made Los Angeles” on the Owens Lake will be published in Fall 2018 (AR+D). Robinson received his Bachelors from Swarthmore College and his Masters of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Alexander’s presentation: Sedimentary Computation, Modeling, and Representation: A Design Interface for a Dry Lake