Elissa Rosenberg

BA, University of Toronto;
MLA, Cornell University

Associate Professor

Elissa Rosenberg joined the landscape architecture faculty at UVA in 1989. She teaches studios, seminars and technical courses on the urban landscape. Recent studios have explored the changing meaning of parks and public space in places ranging from New York City (the High Line, Coney Island), Northeast DC (Marvin Gaye Park); and Bay of Naples, Italy (Ercolano, the ancient site of Herculaneum).

She also teaches Site Work, an urban hydrology course in the eco–tech sequence, and Green City/Green Sites, a new multidisciplinary workshop course with Karen Firehock (Dept. of Urban and Environmental Planning) on the design of stormwater retrofits for Charlottesville.

Ms. Rosenberg has lectured and published on a variety of urban issues such as space and gender in the work of Jane Jacobs, and the relationship of landscape architecture, ecology and engineering in the city. She is currently working on a book on the role of topography in contemporary landscape architecture, exploring how recent preoccupations with the ground have given rise to a new landscape aesthetic in contemporary American and European work. Some of this work has been published in Australia (Kerb) and France (Carnets du Paysage). Her essay on Duisburg Nord by Latz + Partner is forthcoming in a collection of essays entitled Ethics + Aesthetics: Essays on Architecture and Art, edited by Sanda Iliescu, to be published by University of Virginia Press.

She served as Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia from 1998-2002, and was a visiting professor at the Technion Institute, Israel (1996-98). In 1993 she received The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Award of Distinction for her teaching accomplishments. She practiced landscape architecture in New York City and neighborhood planning in Toronto.