2024-11-08T15:51:43-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149996914/uva-school-of-architecture-selects-bradley-cantrell-as-chair-of-landscape-architecture CallyBryant 2017-03-13T13:08:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cx/cxfh9yk2zi1ccizv.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The University of Virginia School of Architecture has appointed Bradley Cantrell as the new chair of Landscape Architecture.&nbsp; Currently an associate professor of landscape architectural technology and director of the Master in Landscape Architecture degree program at Harvard University&rsquo;s Graduate School of Design, Cantrell will assume the role June 25, 2017.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/3n/3necwzhbc4kj9h5n.jpg"></p><p>Cantrell comes to the University with a rich background in environmental and ecological design and its relationship to emerging technologies. His research investigates the role of digital media and computation in directing an environmental design process that operates as living model of landscape.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/qt/qt3k4oh5sn9942fn.jpg"></p><p>Cantrell proposes &ldquo;synthetic ecologies&rdquo;&mdash;infrastructure innovations that use the complexity already in nature to inform data-driven processes and environmental decisions, from river spillways to pollution remediation.&nbsp; &ldquo;Brad&rsquo;s research rethinks the relationship of landscape design to material and ecological systems through the use of comp...</p>