Elizabeth K. Meyer is an American landscape architect. She is the Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture at the

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Education and career

Meyer has a B.S. from the University of Virginia (1978), an M.A. from

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(1983), and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia (1982). She has taught at Cornell University,

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, and the University of Virginia where she moved in 1993. In 2013 she was promoted to professor, and in 2014 she was named the Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture. She founded the UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes. The center was founded as a “collaborative hub for scholars and practitioners seeking to create new models for cultural landscape research, interpretation, preservation and adaptive use.” She has collaborated with the Cultural Landscape Foundation on a two-day workshop on the urban cultural landscapes of

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. Also with the CLF, she worked on The Cultural Landscape Atlas of Virginia.

Honors and awards

In 2003 she was named a fellow of the

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, and in 2012 she became a fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. In 2018, the Journal of Landscape Architecture dedicated a volume to Meyer's work in the field of landscape architecture. In 2019, Meyers received the

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from the

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, and in 2021 the

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awarded Meyers and her collaborators for their work on the campus plan for

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Selected publications

* Meyer wrote the foreword for Jana VanderGoot's ''Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic: A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism'' (Routledge, 2018) * * * *

References

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