Kristina Hill

BS Tufts University;
MLA Harvard University;
Ph.D. Harvard University

Associate Professor and Director of Landscape Architecture

Kristina Hill will serve as associate professor and director of the Program in Landscape Architecture starting in Spring 2007.

Before coming to U.Va., Hill was an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Washington, where her primary research interest was urban ecological design. Her book on the subject, Water, Ecology and the Design of Cities: Landscape Urbanism in the Pacific Northwest, will be published by the University of Washington Press in 2007. Hill co-edited the book Ecology and Design: A Framework for Learning published by Island Press in 2001, and has authored a series of articles on scientific method, the effects of urbanization on stream health and strategies for managing state roadways as a form of ecological infrastructure with minimal herbicide use.

At UW, she spent several years developing and implementing a new initiative in doctoral education on the subject of urban ecology. As one of few scholars with advanced training in both ecology and design, Hill has brought depth and rigor to the synthesis of these two disciplines.

In addition to her academic service, Hill has engaged in public service as a consultant for numerous public design projects in Seattle; Washington, D.C; Dallas; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Brandenburg, Germany.

Hill holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in landscape architecture from Harvard University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from Tufts University. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 1990 and was appointed a Fellow of the Urban Design Institute in 2003.