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roger_trancik01.jpgProfessor Roger Trancik is an urban designer and landscape architect. Trancik known as a professor in several studies, such as Cornell University, Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning Harvard University, Associate Professor of Urban Design 150th Anniversary Professor of Urban Design, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden Professor-in-Residence, University of Colorado, Rome Program in Architecture and Urbanism Visiting Professor, Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Professor-in-Residence, Cornell University Rome Program Director, International Studies in Landscape Architecture, Cornell University and University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

His interested were in urban space, environmental planning, and international studies in Scandinavia, Italy, and Panama, is the principal in Roger Trancik, FASLA, Urban Design Consultants. Roger Trancik’s professional projects include a downtown design plan for the City of Ithaca, a growth management plan for Yates County, New York, and a comprehensive study of the hamlets of the Adirondacks for the State of New York.

Professor Trancik was also interested in art and photographs. His exhibition of drawings and photographs, “Roman Views,” was displayed in Cornell University’s Hartell Gallery and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Gallery in Copenhagen.

Trancyk has won national awards for his published works including the textbook of one of his famous masterpiece, Urban Spatial Design Theory from the book: “Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design,” and the educational CD-ROM, “Layers of Rome: Architecture, History and Geography of Ancient and Modern Rome.” He received a Fulbright Chair in 2004 to participate in an interdisciplinary project in Panama on heritage planning and conservation for Latin America and the Caribbean. Professor Trancik also receive the Paramount Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching at Cornell American Planners Association National Award American Society of Landscape Architects ASLA National Awards Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Source © 2007 ar-chi-tect.org, from realestate.cornell.edu, www.landscape.cornell.edu, and related literatures.

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