Lecturer 2 and 5
Elizabeth K. Meyer has lectured internationally and published widely on topics concerning landscape design theory. Meyer’s teaching and scholarly interests focus on three areas: the recovery and examination of modern landscape theory, the establishment of a contemporary practice of landscape criticism, and the idea of design as site interpretation. Meyer joined the UVA faculty in 1993, and has served as Landscape Architecture Department Chair and Director of the Graduate Landscape Architecture Program. Previously, Meyer taught at Harvard and Cornell. She is nationally recognized as an outstanding scholar and teacher, with honors and awards from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA), the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and the University of Virginia. Meyer worked for EDAW and Hanna/Olin in the 1980s. Since then, she has consulted with several landscape architecture fi rms including Michael Vergason and Van Valkenburgh Associates.
