Ron Henderson
Director, Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program
rhender1@iit.edu
Courses taught
LA 497 The Natural History of Cities
LA 497 Long and Narrow
LA 514 Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture I: Entrepreneurship and Practice
LA 526 Design Media II: Digital Media
LA 545 / 546 Cloud Studio
LA 567 Ecology and Materials Workshop 3: Horticulture and Design
Expertise
Landscape Architecture, Architecture, gardens and contemporary urbanism of China and Japan
Education
M.L.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1995
M.Arch., University of Pennsylvania, 1995
B.Arch., University of Notre Dame, 1985
Teaching Experience
Visiting Firm Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2012-2015
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Asian Studies, Stuckeman Chair of Integrative Design, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2011-2015
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Tsinghua University, PRC, 2005-2011
Deputy Director, International English Program Master of Architecture, Tsinghua University, PRC 2009-2011
Prior appointments at Rhode Island School of Design and Roger Williams University
Professional Experience
Founding Principal and Director of Design, L+A Landscape Architecture,
Newport, Rhode Island (USA) 2000-current
Associate, Stephen Stimson Associates, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (USA)
1996-2000
Project Landscape Architect, OLIN, Philadelphia Pennsylvania (USA)
1995-1996
Licenses
Registered Landscape Architect in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York
Registered Architect in Massachusetts
Foreign Expert Certificate, People's Republic of China
Selected Publications, Exhibits, and Recent Research
Senior Fellow of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks
Henderson, Ron, The Gardens of Suzhou, University of Pennsylvania Press,
2012
US-Japan Friendship Commission Creative Artist Fellowship, 2012
National Endowment for the Arts and Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho)
Lijiang Studio Artist-in-Residence, Yunnan PRC, 2008
Awards
Le théâtre élisabéthain du château d'Hardelot, Condette (France), nominated, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Prize, 2016 (with Andrew Todd)
Memorial de l'Abolition de l'Esclavage, Nantes (France), nominated and shortlisted, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Prize, 2013 (with Wodizcko+Bonder)
Premio Torsanlorenze International Award for Excellence in Landscape Architecture, Beijing Olympic Forest Prk, 2008 (with Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute)
Over 20 regional awards in landscape architecture, architecture, construction management, historic preservation, policy, and planning projects and research
Memberships
Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects
Member, International House of Japan