Anne Whiston Spirn
Professor of Landscape
Architecture and Planning, MIT

Anne Whiston Spirn is an award-winning author, landscape architect, photographer, teacher, and scholar. She is the Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at MIT. Her previous academic appointments include chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the landscape architecture program at Harvard University. Since 1987, Spirn has directed the West Philadelphia Landscape Project, a program integrating research, teaching, and community service. Her work is devoted to promoting places that are functional, sustainable, meaningful, artful, and just.