Identity

Julia Czerniak

Syracuse University School of Architecture, and Founding Principal - CLEAR

Making History

Monday, October 19, 2009
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

Landscape Architecture - Stanley White Lecture Series

JULIA CZERNIAK is the inaugural Director of UPSTATE: a design research and advocacy organization housed within the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. The mission of this center, since its inception in 2005, is to engage innovative design and development practices, addressing critical issues of urban revitalization in the Upstate, New York region. The center initiates, facilitates, and showcases projects that apply innovative, experimental design research to challenges faced by real-world communities. UPSTATE: actively seeks collaborators and partners in the academic, non-profit, private, and public sectors, acting as a resource and advisor for local and regional policymakers on design issues.  

Czerniak is also a registered landscape architect and is founder of CLEAR, an interdisciplinary design practice located in Upstate, NY.   Czerniak’s design work focuses on urban landscapes in Rust-Belt cities, and it has been recognized with numerous awards: most recently, her collaborations with Field Operations won the Syracuse Connective Corridor competition; with Marpillero Pollak Architects, she won the artNET Public Art Landscape Design Competition in Toledo, Ohio; and  with COLAB,  she was one of the winners for the Charm Bracelet project in Pittsburgh, PA.  She was also a winner of the 2001 Young Architects Forum competition sponsored by The Architectural League of New York.  Her design work for this venue is included in the book Second Nature (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001).

Her work as designer is complemented by a body of writing. Czerniak is editor of two books, Large Parks (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) and Case: Downsview Park Toronto (Prestel and Harvard Design School, 2001), that focus on contemporary design approaches to public parks and the relationship between landscape and cities.  Other writings include essays in Landscape Alchemy: The Work of Hargreaves Associates (ORO Editions, Fall 2009); Fertilizers: Olin Eisenman (Institute for Contemporary Art, 2006); Landscape Urbanism, Charles Waldheim, ed. (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006); Assemblage 34 (MIT Press, 1998) and Harvard Design Review.   Czerniak has exhibited at the Architectural League, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies, the Van Alen Institute, Castle Gallery, Galleria Frau, and Gallery Joe.  She lectures widely.

Additional Information

 Plym Auditorium

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Fall 2009 Lectures

Contacts

Lecture Committee: Stewart Hicks                Erik Hemingway              Julie Larsen                    John Senseney