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About:
The multi-faceted Anne Whiston Spirn is an author, photographer, landscape architect, and planner. She is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at MIT and a member of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Department of Architecture. She has taught at Harvard and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she chaired the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Spirn is the youngest person and the first woman to win the International Cosmos Prize, awarded annually by the Expo 90 Commemorative Foundation for "research work that has achieved excellence and is recognized as contributing to a significant understanding of the relationships among living organisms, the interdependence of life and the global environment and the common nature integrating these inter-relationships." (source: The Cosmos Prize site)
Books:
Spirn, Anne Whiston. "Constructing nature: the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted." in Uncommon ground: toward reinventing nature Norton, 1995. Sci/Eng Library GE195 .U53 1995 2003.
_________________. Frank Lloyd Wright: designs for an American landscape, 1922-1932. Abrams, 1996. On Reserve.
_________________. The granite garden: urban nature and human design. Basic Books, 1984. On Reserve.
_________________. The language of landscape. Yale University Press, 1998. SB472 .S685 1998.
Books listed
above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
Articles: (Selected
from 1996 - 2006)
"Landscapes, systems, aesthetics: in dialogue." Spirn, Anne Whiston. Arcade. 2003 Summer, v.21, n.4, p.[31]-34. Available through Inter-Library Loan.
"New Urbanism and the environment." Spirn, Anne Whiston. Places. 2000 Spring, v.13, n.2, p.44.
"The language of landscape, by Anne Whiston Spirn." Steiner, Frederick R. Landscape Journal. 1999 Fall, v.18, n.2, p.191-192. (book review). Available full text on the library's Alphabetical List of Journals Online.
"Most important questions [in landscape architecture." Litton, R. Burton Landscape Journal. 1992 Fall, v.11, n.2, p.160-181.
"Seeing and making the landscape whole." Schwartz, Martha. Landscape Architecture"Toward a unified vision: architecture in the landscape." Spirn, Anne Whiston 1990 Aug., v.80, no.8, p.36-41.
Toward a unified vision; architecture in the landscape." Spirn, Anne WhistonLandscape architecture.1990 Aug., v.80, no.8, p.36-41.
“[Nature in the city] .” Spirn, Anne Whiston. Landscape Architecture. 1989 Sept., v.79, no.7, p.112
“The poetics of city and nature: toward a new aesthetic for urban design.“ Spirn, Anne Whiston. Places. 1989 Fall, v.6, no.1, p.82-93.
“The poetics of city and nature: towards a new aesthetic for urban design.” Spirn, Anne Whiston. Landscape Journal. 1988 Fall, v.7, no.2, p.108-126
“The granite garden: urban nature and human design by Anne Whiston Spirn.” Odum, Eugene P. Landscape Journal. 1984 Fall, v.3, no.2, p.153-154.
Articles listed
above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
Web Sites:
MIT Architecture: Anne Whiston Spirn Profile. http://architecture.mit.edu/people/profiles/prspirn.html/
Knowing Where to Stand -
Photographs by Anne Whiston Spirn. http://loohooloo.mit.edu/resources/portfolio/spirn_exhibit/
"Presented by the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and the MIT Museum, Knowing Where to Stand demonstrated how Spirn uses photography in her research on landscape as a form of language."
Prepared by Judy Connorton
March 2007
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