Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, is an Endowed Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Prior to her UVA tenure, Meyer worked for design firms in DC and Philadelphia, and taught at Cornell and Harvard GSD. Meyer’s awards and honors include President Obama’s appointment to the US Commission of Fine Arts, the Vincent Scully Prize and the UVA Thomas Jefferson Award.
In addition to teaching design studios and theory seminars, Meyer lead the A-School as Department Chair and Dean. Since 2023 when she was appointed the Inaugural Faculty Director of the pan-university sustainability lab at Morven, Meyer has built a coalition of colleagues keen on perceiving, imagining, discovering and testing alternative regenerative futures where multi-species communities and the planet can flourish. A strategic action plan, authored by Meyer and a cohort of faculty in the arts, humanities, sciences and design, guides the regeneration of Morven’s 2900 acres of rural lands into a living landscape laboratory for field-based learning, experimentation and research across scales. This endeavor draws on Meyer’s lifelong interest in cultural landscapes as sites of memory—often partial, multiple and contested—palpable in spatial patterns, material traces and ongoing bio-cultural processes that can prompt future design imaginaries.