CARSON BOOTH runs Office for Landscape Architecture, a landscape gardening practice in Pennsylvania and Montana. His work explores methods of building and representation within the landscape.
He has worked previously for Futuregreen, Junya Ishigami + Associates, and Design 5 Landscape Architecture. His built work includes numerous award winning projects in Japan, China, Europe and the USA. His model making and fabrication work has been internationally exhibited at MoMA, BUGA Heilbronn, The Museum of the Rockies, Harvard Druker Design Gallery and UMass Boston.
Carson received his Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard GSD, and holds a degree in Environmental Design from Montana State University.
MARK HELLER is a Design Critic in Landscape Architecture at The Harvard Graduate School of Design. He teaches in the MLA core studio sequence and leads a seminar on mapping the environmental and morphological impacts of urbanization.
Mark’s design work intersects geography, data visualization, and simulation. As an Irving Innovation Fellow at the GSD, he built Autosimulacrum, a platform for computationally rendering speculative landscapes. Recent and ongoing collaborations include Carlo Ratti Associati for Manifesta 14 in Pristina, Kosovo, and the London School of Economics.
Prior to joining the department, Mark served as a Lecturer with Urban Planning and Design and taught undergraduate architecture seminars at Wentworth Institute of Technology. He has practiced as an urban and landscape designer at Perkins&Will, Sasaki Associates, Starr Whitehouse, and Williams, Asselin, Ackaoui & Associates.
Mark received his Master in Landscape Architecture and Master in Urban Planning from Harvard GSD, and holds a degree in Government and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies from Dartmouth College.