Kirkwood Niall

• Niall Kirkwood is a landscape architect, technologist, and tenured Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he has taught full time since 1992. He is the current Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, holds the Dr Gerard O’Hare Visiting Chair at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and has held other courtesy faculty appointments at Beijing University, China (Founding Professorship 2016- 2019) Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (Thesis Advisor), Korea University, Seoul, (Visiting Professor, 2010, 2013, 2014) and was on the Advisory Council and External Examiner of Landscape Architecture Program, School of Architecture, University of Hong Kong (2010-2014). He teaches, carries out research and publishes on a range of topics related to design, the built environment, construction, and the sustainable reuse of land including urban regeneration, landfill and post-mining site reclamation, environmental site technologies, site construction and project management and international site development. His English language publications include Manufactured Sites: Rethinking the Post-Industrial Landscape (Taylor Francis/Routledge). Principles of Brownfield Regeneration (Island Press), PHYTO: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design (Taylor Francis/Routledge), Weathering and Durability in Landscape Architecture (John Wiley) and The Art of Landscape Detail (John Wiley. His publications in other languages include The Art of Landscape Detail (John Wiley) Chinese, Manufactured Sites (Taylor Francis/Routledge) Arabic, Principles of Brownfield Regeneration (Island Press) Korean (2011), Chinese (2014) and PHYTO: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design (Taylor Francis/Routledge) Chinese 2019. He held the position of Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the GSD (2003-2009), Program Director (1998-2003, 2005-2008) and Advisor, Master of Design Studies Environment Track, (1999-2003). He has carried out consulting and research with Lotte, Inc, Republic of Korea, GS Development Company, Republic of Korea and The Wadia Group, Mumbai, India. Prior to joining the Harvard GSD faculty, he was a registered and licensed architect and landscape architect with 16 years of experience in the private sector carrying out land reclamation and urban development projects in Scotland, European Mainland, Middle East, and the United States. He holds degrees from the University of Manchester (UK), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA and an honorary degree from Harvard University. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland in 2009 for his international contribution to brownfield regeneration practice and education. He has given keynote lectures internationally in the last five years in Korea, China, Japan, Thailand, Mexico, Ireland, Germany, Russia including the keynote speech for the 2017 IFLA Asia-Pacific Congress (Bangkok, Thailand), 2010 IFLA Annual Conference (Suzhou, China) and 2008 IFLA Annual Europe Conference (St Petersburg, Russia) as well as lectures and seminars in design programs in North America. He was also Editor in Chief, and Reviewer for The Nakhara Journal, Thailand Chulalongkorn University from 2015- 2018.

EDUCATION

• Degree Institution Discipline Year
• DSc University of Ulster (honorary) Science 2009
• AB Harvard University (honorary) Humanities 2001
• MLA University of Pennsylvania Landscape Arch. 1985
• BArch. University of Manchester, UK Architecture 1978
• BA (Hon. Arch) University of Manchester, UK Architecture 1976