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Title |
Assistant Professor |
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Department |
Architecture |
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Address |
240H E. Sibley Hall |
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Phone |
(607) 255-0809 |
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As an architect, landscape architect, and cultural geographer, Jeremy Foster is fascinated by the opportunities the landscape medium — simultaneously, an assemblage of material processes and practices, a space of representation, and a medium of cultural discourse — offers for trans-disciplinary, "joined up" thinking. In addition to practicing architecture and landscape architecture, he has taught at University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Cornell University.
His design studios not only address the social, environmental, and infrastructural challenges found in contemporary built environments, they emphasize that these environments are always under construction and offer opportunities to curate, re-imagine, and project cultural values and ideas of nature. Foster has also taught courses in the history, theory, and practice of landscape and urban design, and the role of cultural representations and material practices in the shaping of cities, landscapes, and territories.
Foster's research is both historical and contemporary, and revolves around the multiple intersections between culture and landscape. Recent articles have explored the relationship between landscape and different forms of memory, the visual-discursive construction of imaginary geographies, the urbanism of mobility, displacement and diaspora, the syncretic nature of topographical thinking, and the relational and performative aspects of place.
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