Faculty

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Luke Harris

Assistant Professor

Phone: 212-650-8749

Email: lharris4@ccny.cuny.edu

Office: 2M06

https://officeoflivingthings.com/

Educational Credentials :

  • MLA, University of Virginia, 2017
  • BA, Macalester College, 2010

Teaching Experience :

  • Assistant Professor, City College of New York, CUNY, 2026 - present
  • Scientific Staff (Mittelbau), Chair of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich, 2020-2022

Professional Experience :

  • Founding Member, Office of Living Things, 2017 - present
  • Doctoral Candidate, Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies, ETH Zurich, 2022 - present
  • Scientific Staff (Mittelbau), Chair of Landscape Architecture, ETH Zurich, 2020-2022
  • Senior Designer, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, 2017- 2020

Licenses/Registration :

  • Registered Landscape Architect, MA

Selected Publications and Recent Research :

  • Harris, L. (2025). Soils in motion: the metabolism of New York City’s urban grounds. Landscape Research, 50(8), 1287–1302. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2025.2526498
  • Harris, L. (2025). Against wastelanding: distributed design at the pace of soil in the Conca de Barberà. Landscape Research, 50(5), 871–885. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2024.2371890
  • Harris, L., C. Turett, B. Walker (2024). The Dirt on Drawing: A Method for Relational Thinking. Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies. Nitin Bathla, ed. Zurich: gta Verlag. 47-71.
  • Gali-Izard, T., L. Harris, C. Turett, B. Walker (2022). We, the Roots among You. OASE: The Project of the Soil. no. 110, 67–75
  • Gali-Izard, T., L. Harris, C. Turett, B. Walker (2022). A Conversation about Language. Designing Landscape Architectural Education. Bridget Keane and Rosalea Monacella, eds. London: Routledge. 92–100.
  • Harris, L. Obsessive Gardening: Cultivating Response-ability with Gertrude Jekyll (2017). LUNCH: Tactics. 12: 193-202
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