Roger Trancik, FASLA, an educator and practitioner of urban design, has written three national award-winning books; authored 45 professional planning studies, journal articles, and scholarly papers; produced gallery exhibitions; and lectured at universities and international conferences. He has served on NEA and NYSCA Design Arts panels, City of Cambridge Zoning Board, ASLA National Committees, and U.S. Fulbright Screening Committees. His areas of specialization are spatial design production, theory and aesthetics, and international practice in the U.S., Scandinavia, Italy, and Panama. Trancik is founding principal of the firm Urban Design Consultants, active since 1971. Trancik has also worked as an urban designer in the offices of Sasaki Associates of Watertown, MA, CBT Architects, Boston, and Ralph Erskine Architects, Stockholm Sweden.
Trancik has taught at Cornell since 1982 and at Harvard from 1970–82. He earned B.S. in landscape architecture and urban planning with honors from Michigan State and an M.L.A. in urban design from Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Publications (selected)
- Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design (textbook)
- Layers of Rome: Educational CD and User Guide
- Hamlets of the Adirondacks I & II (Hamlets III in progress)
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (selected)
- American Planning Association National Best Planning Project Award
- American Society of Landscape Architects National Communication Awards
- Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects
- Paramount Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching, Cornell
- International Honors: U.S. Senior Fulbright Scholar to Panama, Jubileum Professor of Urban Design, Chalmers University in Sweden
Exhibitions and Presentations (selected)
- Roman Views: Drawing on the City, Hartell Gallery, Cornell, and Danish Royal Academy Gallery
- Garden Cities of the Panama Canal, Hartell Gallery, Cornell, U. Panama Architecture Gallery
- Waterfront Design Exhibitions – studios in New York City and Göteborg, Sweden
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