Niall Kirkwood是哈佛大学设计研究生院景观建筑与技术的终身教授,现任设计研究生院的学术院长。他的研究重点是全球后工业时代的景观和创新,包括棕地、废物处理场、采掘和采矿用地、污染空气、水、土壤和沉积物的修复技术和生态恢复。他的开创性研究发展了“人造场地”、“植物”、“景观设计工程”(LDE)等主要概念,并于2005年为荷兰瓦尔河相关项目发明了“海绵城市”的设计方法。
Niall Kirkwood is a tenured Professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he has taught and carried out research and consulting since joining the faculty full time in 1991. His focus involves the global post-industrial landscape and innovations in reclaiming brownfields, waste disposal sites, extraction and mining lands, remediation techniques and ecological restoration for polluted air, water, soils, and sediments. His pioneering research has developed the main concepts of ‘manufactured sites’, ‘phyto’, ‘landscape design engineering (LDE)’ and he invented the design approach of ‘Sponge City’ in 2005 for a project related to the Waal River in the Netherlands. He is the author of multiple books and articles on these subjects including Manufactured Sites: Rethinking the Post-Industrial Landscape (Routledge, London), Principles of Brownfield Regeneration: Cleanup, Design and Reuse of Derelict Land (Island Press, New York- Chinese Translation 2012) and Phyto: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design (Routledge, London Chinese Translation 2016).
Kirkwood has served as a faculty member of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment, the Harvard University Center for the Environment and a member of the faculty steering committee of The Harvard Global Health Institute. Kirkwood holds courtesy academic appointments including Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Founding Professorship and Dean of Landscape Architecture, School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing University (BUCEA), and is a Member of Academic Advisory Board of Beijing Advanced Innovation Center of Urban Design for Future Cities. From 2003-2009, he was the thirteenth Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture, the oldest such program in North America, founded in 1901 by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. He is currently the Academic Dean at the Graduate School of Design.