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Professor of Landscape Architecture
475-E Lawrence Hall
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-5234
phone: (541) 346-1454
fax: (541) 346-3626
e-mail: helphand@oregon.uoregon.edu
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Kenneth I. Helphand is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon where he has taught since 1974. He is a graduate of Brandeis University (1968) and Harvard's Graduate School of Design 1972) and the recipient of distinguished teaching awards from the University of Oregon (1993) and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (1997). Helphand has guest lectured at numerous universities and is a regular visiting professor at the Technion - the Israel Institute of Technology. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews on topics in landscape history and theory with a particular interest in the contemporary American landscape. His works include the ASLA award winning books Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape (1991) and Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space (with Cynthia Girling 1994). He is currently completing a book on landscape architecture in Israel and serves as editor of Landscape Journal. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and an Honorary Member of the Israel Associaton of Landscape Architects.
EDUCATION
M.L.A, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1972)
B.A. (Major: Politics), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (1968)
AWARDS
Honorary member, Israel Association of Landscape Architects (1997)
Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Award of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching (1997)
Fellow, University of Oregon Humanities Center (Spring 1996)
University of Oregon Distinguished Teaching Award (1993)
Merit Award - Research and Communications, American Society of Landscape Architects - Oregon Chapter (1994)
Merit Award - Research and Communications, American Society of Landscape Architects (1992)
Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects (1992)
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon. Professor (1986 - present), Department Head (1981-87), Associate Professor (1980-86), Assistant Professor
(1974-80)
Current Courses: Landscape Architecture Design, Contemporary American Landscape, Landscape Perception, History of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Films.
John R. Emens Visiting Professor of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University (Spring 1987)
Visiting Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (1980-81 Academic Year & shorter periods 1984, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1998)
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (1972-74)
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University. Teaching Assistant to J. B. Jackson (1971)
Landscape Journal, Editor (1994 - present)
National Assocation of Olmsted Parks Trustee (1993 - present)
Reviews Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine (1986 -1994)
Editor, CELA Newsletter (1979-80)
Sasaki Walker Associates, Sausalito, California (1970-71)
Trustees of the Reservations, Milton, Massachusetts. Master plan for World's End Reservation, Hingham, Massachusetts (1969-70)
Leo A. Novick, Landscape Architect and Site Planner, New York, NY. (1969)
Michael Mazur, Artist, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Studio Assistant. (1966-68)
BOOKS
Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space. (co-author Cynthia Girling) New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc. (1994, paperback 1996)
Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape, Ellen Manchester-Photo Editor, Niwot, Colorado: Roberts Rinehart (1991) ASLA Merit Award (1992)
SELECTED ARTICLES
"Creating a New Language" in Making Peace with the Land: Designing Israel's Landscape Shlomo Aronson , Washington D.C.: Spacemaker Press, 1998.
"Landscape as Ulpan: the Development of an Israeli Landscape Architectural Language" Landscape Review , Vol. 4:2, pp.16-26, 1998.
"Leaping the Property Line: Observations on Recent American Garden History", in Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks. (forthcoming)
" Retrofitting Suburbia: Bellevue, Washington, USA" (co-author Cynthia Girling), Landscape and Urban Planning Vol. 36, pp. 301-313, 1997.
"Defiant Gardens," The Journal of Garden History , Vol. 17: 2, pp. 101-121, 1997.
"Constants and Variables: Basic Themes in Landscape Architecture," catalogue essay in Point of View: Four Approaches to Landscape Architecture in Israel, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, spring/summer 1996.
"Interpretive Interventions," Cultural Resource Management, Vol. 18:2, 1995, pp. 13-17.
"Learning from Linksland," Landscape Journal, Vol.14:1(Spring 1995), pp.74-86.
"Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver," in Pioneers of American Landscape Design eds. Charles Birnbaum and Lisa Chowder, Washington D.C.: National Park Service, 1993, pp.
80- 82.
"Critical Inquiry," Landscape Journal, Vol. 10:2, p.164-67, Fall 1991.
"Most Influential Books," Landscape Journal, Vol. 10:2, p.182, Fall 1991
"Battlefields & Dreamfields: The Landscape of Recent American Film," Oregon Humanities, pp. 18-21, Winter 1990.
Contributor (excerpts of writings + photographs) in Mark Francis & Randy Hester, The Meaning of the Garden, MIT Press:Cambridge, 1990.
"Henry Vincent Hubbard," in American Landscape Architecture: Designers and Places, ed. William Tishler, The Preservation Press: Washington, D.C., 1988
"Cultivating Charm," (co-author Nancy Rottle), Garden Design, Vol. 7:3, pp. 26-33, 88, Autumn 1988
"McUrbia: The 1950's and the Birth of the Contemporary American Landscape," Places, Vol. 5: No. 2, pp. 40-49. 1988
"Pastoral," Ville Giardini, , No. 222: Dec. 1987 (Italian)
"Agritettura," Ville Giardini, No. 211: pp. 54-59. Nov. 1986 (Italian)
"Landscape Films,"Landscape Journal, Vol. 5: No. 1, pp. 1-8. Spring 1986
"I Quattro Fiumi,"Ville Giardini, Numero 203, pp. 52-55. Feb. 1986 (Italian)
"Mille Interpretazioni," Ville Giardini, Numero 202, pp. 50-53. Dec. 1985 (Italian)
"The Garden-Art of Agriculture," Garten + Landschaft, , pp. 29-32. Oct. 1985
"Landscape Perception," Environmental Review, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 370-372. 1984
"The Western City Park," Parks in the West and American Culture, Sun Valley, Idaho: Institute of the American West. 1984
"Agriculture's Art: The Garden," Landscape Architecture, Vol. 74: No. 3, pp. 60-64. May/June 1984
"Being Ryoan-ji," Landscape Architecture, Vol. 73: No. 2, p. 77. March/April 1983
"Magic Markers," Yearbook in Landscape Architecture: Historic Preservation, Richard Austin et. al. eds. , New York: Van Nostand Reinhold. 1983
"The Bicycle Kodak," Environmental Review, Vol. IV, no. 3, pp. 24-33. 1981
"Viewfinder: Toward A Common Landscape View," Landscape Architecture, Vol. 69: No. 3, pp. 315-317. May 1979
"Environmental Autobiography," Childhood-City Newsletter, No. 14, pp. 8-11,17. Dec.1978
"The Landscape of McDonald's," Journal of American Culture, (reprinted in The World Of Ronald McDonald, ed. Marshall Fishwick, Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Culture
Press: pp. 357-362) 1978
"Communal Environments of Muncie" in Middletown Man: The Human Side of Life in Muncie,Indiana, Ball State University. 1974
Wall Painting-Eastern U.S.A. Slide show and booklet. Environmental Communications, Venice, California. 1973
Book reviews Landscape Architecture, Landscape Journal ,Landscape and Urban Planning , Landscape,
Vernacular Architecture Newsletter,Design Book Review, The Old Northwest
COMPETITIONS (selected)
Parc La Villette, Paris (Team of Genasci, Gilland, Helphand, Moye). 1982 (published in Marianne Barzilay, Catherine Hayward, Lucette Lombard-Valentino, L'INVENTION DU
PARC, Graphite Editions: Paris, 1984, p. 126)
LECTURES at the following Universities
Ball State University
Bezalel, Jerusalem, Israel
City University of New York
Columbia University
Cornell University
Denver Public Library
Drury College, Springfield, Missouri
Haifa University, Israel
Hebrew University, Israel
Iowa State University
Lincoln Univerity, New Zealand
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Penn State University
Pacific University
Rutgers University
SUNY-Syracuse
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Tel Aviv University
University of Georgia
University of Illinois
University of Colorado-Denver
University of California at Davis
University of California at Berkeley
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Portland
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