Faculty + Staff
Dean Abbott
Lecturer
- BLA, Michigan State University
- MLA, Harvard University
Dean Abbott specializes in the design of urban parks, plazas, and streetscapes. Abbott has had a large influence on the shaping of New York City’s waterfront, having worked on South Street Seaport, Battery Park, Battery Park City, and The Westway. Locally, Abbott designed the interior water garden in the Fifth and Marquette Building Skyway, the courtyard for St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester and created the conceptual design for the proposed Avenue of the Arts along 3rd Avenue from downtown Minneapolis to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Professional Experience
- Lawrence Halprin and Associates
- Office of Peter Walker
- M. Paul Friedberg Associates
- Zion and Breen
- Sasaki Walker Associates
Recognition
- first prize, FDR National Memorial Design Competition [with Lawrence Halprin]
- first prize, Copley Square Design Competition
- first prize, Ohio Veterans Memorial
- Distinguished Alumni Award, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
- Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Landscape Architecture, Michigan State University
- College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Ralph Rapson Teaching Award
- University of Minnesota, Star Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence
Courses
- LA5201: Making Landscape Spaces & Types
- LA5301: Introduction to Landscape Architecture Drawing
- LA8554: Project Programming
- LA8555: Advanced Landscape Planning and Design