Assistant Professor
Co-Director, Master of Science in Architecture Program
Greene Building, Room 302

518-276-4060

Master of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University; Bachelor of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Christianna Bennett is an Assistant Professor of Architecture who specializes in interdisciplinary coursework bridging the fields of Landscape and Architecture. Her research expertise includes environmental ethics, environmental psychology and philosophy, which explore architecture as a cultural, political, and environmental practice.

Her background draws on the history and philosophies of science, technology, and design, for examining how architecture consciously contributes to cultural production and modes of engagement within environments. Merging together biological, artificial, and cultural systems, her unique research offers insights into a future with botanical-cyborgs and landscape machines are leveraged for their capacity to contribute to a more equitable and sustainable world.

In 2012, Prof. Bennett received her Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch.) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture, and in 2016 she earned a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design earning distinctions in both Landscape History and the Core Landscape Studios.

Her essays have been included in publications by ArQ (forthcoming), the Journal of Earth System Science (JESS), Environmental Management: Ecology and Society (Resilience Foundations), MIT Media Lab, TASCHEN, the Lexington Press, the SITE Magazine, and Masks Journal. She has been invited as a guest researcher in the Landscape Research Group’s 2022 Isle of Arran Field Study, the MIT Media Lab’s Ancient Future Technology research and publications group, as a Brown’s Fellow, and artist in residence at Arts Letters & Numbers.

She has taught at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), the Boston Architectural College (BAC), and the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University, and practiced Landscape Architecture professionally in Upstate New York, Boston, and Los Angeles.

She is a member of The American Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), American Society of Environmental Historians (ASEH), Hudson River Watershed Alliance, The Landscape Research Group (LRG), National Association for the Advancement for Colored People (NAACP), National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), and the Architecture League of New York.

https://www.christianna-bennett.com/