Alexander Robinson

Alexander Robinson is an Associate Professor in the Landscape Architecture + Urbanism program in the University of Southern California School of Architecture, and principal of the Office of Outdoor Research in Los Angeles, California. A landscape architect, researcher, and scholar, he is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a lifelong explorer of the Owens Valley and Eastern Sierras. His research advances the design craft of large-scale, multifunctional infrastructures through a synthesis of historical analysis, advanced design tools, and public engagement. His last book, coauthored with Liat Margolis, is Living Systems: Innovative Materials and Technologies for Landscape Architecture (Birkhäuser, 2007), a treatise on landscapes as material performance systems.