Cat Soergel Marshall
Biography
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at 国产伦理. Marshall鈥檚 work focuses on documenting fragile forest communities and cultural narratives. Marshalls cartographic drawings and large format photographic montages have been published and exhibited in various international venues. Her work traces natural forces and the spatial memory of the sublime forest landscapes using cartographic tracings and photographic montage to plot patterns of change over time. Envisioned to broaden awareness, and sets out to visualize forest communities, tree abundance, and the biotic and abiotic factors affecting their changing territories. Building upon a larger body of knowledge the work examines the value of trees, not just a natural resource but also a cultural resource.
She received a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Art History at Ithaca College and a Masters of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the Penny White Traveling Fellowship. At 国产伦理 Marshall teaches design studios, research seminars and representation courses. Previously, Marshall was invited to teach a Hyde Workshop at the University of Nebraska and was on faculty at Louisiana State University.
Marshall is published in: 20 Imagined Landscapes: Material Models of Innovation and Discovery (in press), (2025), (2009), Journal of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture Magazine, national and international academic proceedings European Council of Landscape Architecture, International Federation of Landscape Architects World Congress, Environmental Design Research Association, The Association of Preservation Technology, Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation, and International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and the Iraqi War Memorial Symposium.
Education
Harvard University Graduate School of Design | Master in Landscape Architecture
Ithaca College | Bachelor of Arts, Architectural Art History
Affiliations
American Society of Landscape Architects | Council of Educators of Landscape Architects (107836)
Media
| with Faculty and Friends Series with Gary Smith, FASLA | College of Architecture and Environmental Design | 国产伦理 | Kent, Ohio | October 21, 2020
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) Silent Auction, ASLA national meeting, San Diego, CA. |2019
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) Silent Auction, ASLA national meeting, Philadelphia, PA |2018
Publications
Book Chapters:
Observing and Speculating with Models | in book title 20 Imagined Landscapes | Editor: Trevor Lee | Birkh盲user | 2026 | 208 pages | ISBN 978-3-0356-3006-0 ISBN 13: 978-3-0356-3007-7
Walking and Drawing | in Book Title: Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods Action Tools | Editors: Paula H. Horrigan and Thomas Oles | Publisher: Routledge | 2025 | 256 pages | ISBN: 1138244325 ISBN13: 978-1138244320
On-site Drawing | in Book Title: Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods Action Tools | Editors: Paula H. Horrigan and Thomas Oles | Publisher: Routledge | 2025| 256 pages | ISBN: 1138244325 ISBN13: 978-1138244320
Creativity and Novice Design: The Liminal Territory of Transformative making, in | Editor: Lynn DellaPietra | Cambridge Scholars Press | 2009 | 320 pages | ISBN: 1-4438-0964-0 ISBN13: 978-1 鈥 4438-0962-1
Journal Articles:
Seeing the Landscape Breathe | Journal of Landscape Architecture | Catherine Dee, ed. Autumn 2008, vol.6.
Peer Reviewed Conference Paper Presentations | Proceeding Articles
Genius Loci of the Hemlock Forest | in Conference proceedings | Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2024 Annual Conference (CELA)| St Louis, Missouri | 2024
Fieldwork: Case studies in the Initial Creative Process | Panel Moderator, Panelists: Sheryl Fishel Brown, Katherine Jenkins, Karen Lutsky and William Shriver | Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2023 Annual Meeting (CELA) | San Antonio, Texas, | 2023
Restorative Visions | Panel Moderator Panelists: Kofi Boone, Taraneh Maskani and Nayyirah Shariff | Environmental Justice and Ecology & Race 8th Annual 国产伦理 ESDRI symposium | 2023
Territory of Trees co author Amanda Mumford, in conference proceedings | Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) | Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico | 2022
To Design Rust Landscapes in conference proceedings | International Federation of Landscape Architects World Congress (IFLA) | Oslo, Norway | 2019
Visual methods for speculating transformative landscape processes, in conference proceedings | Creation/Reaction | University of Greenwich | London, UK | 2017
Deciphering Design Solutions Through Drawing the Multiplicities of Landscape: A Case Study of Southern Louisiana鈥檚 Sweet Olive Cemetery颅, co author, Sheryl Fishel Brown, in conference proceedings | University of Greenwich | London, UK | 2017
Cosmological-order, Landscape-order a Typological Framework for UNSECO Poverty Point Cultural Site | Short Paper Presentation | The Association of Preservation Technology (APT) International | San Antonio, Texas | 2016
Teaching how to Track Landscape Experience | in Conference Proceedings | European Council of Landscape Architecture 2016 Conference (ECLAS) | HRS Hochshule fu虉r Technik, Rapperswil Switzerland | 2016
Teaching how to Track Landscape Experience Short Paper presented | Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2014 Annual Conference (CELA) | Baltimore Maryland | 2014
Transforming a Cultural landscape: Grand Chenier 鈥 Teaching Landscape Architecture students how to Speculate on Landscape Change | Short Paper presented | Environmental Design Research Assoc. Annual Mtg 鈥 Design with Change (EDRA) New Orleans, LA | 2014
Ordering the Louisiana Landscape: Geology, Geometry, Cosmos | Short Paper presentation | co author Risk, J.K. | Environmental Design Research Association Annual Meeting 鈥 Design with Change (EDRA) | New Orleans, Louisiana | 2014
Creativity and Novice Design: The Liminal Territory of Transformative making, in Conference Proceedings | Perspectives on Creativity | Cambridge Scholars Press | 2009
The Seaward March: the buoy and the pod, co-author with, Kristi M. Dykema | Foundation for the Netherlands Association of Landscape Architects | Apeldoorn, The Netherlands | 2008
Awards/Achievements
Student Honors / The Cultural Landscape Foundation Nominated Olmstead Scholar
2024 (MLA Finalist awarded $5,000 scholarship)
2014 (BLA Winner awarded $15,000 scholarship)
International ASLA Student Awards
2025 ASLA Student Awards, National Honor Award in the General Design category, Morgan Mackey
2017 ASLA Student Awards, National Honor Award in the Planning and Analysis category, , Donguk Lee and Xiwei Shen.
2008 ASLA Student Awards, National Honor Award in the General Design category, The Lower Ninth Ward and Bayou Bienvenue: , Conners Ladner, Chris Barnes and Robert Bass
OCASLA Student Awards
2025 Ohio ASLA Student Honor Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement for her Studio Project
鈥淧erched on Happiness鈥 Morgan Mackey (25)
2024 Ohio ASLA Student Honor Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement for her Studio Project
鈥淎ya Keskeso MLA (24)
2024 Ohio ASLA Student Honor Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement for her Studio Project
鈥 Asmita Dahal MLA (24)
2023 Ohio ASLA Student Honor Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement for her Studio Project
鈥 Morgan Mackey MLA(25)
2023 Ohio ASLA Student Merit Award, in recognition of academic achievement for her studio project
Saba Tajali, MLA (23)
2021 Ohio ASLA Student Honor Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement for his studio project
鈥 Brendan Alcorn MLA (22)
2020 Ohio ASLA Student Honor Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement for his studio project
鈥 James Sasser MLA (21)
2019 Ohio ASLA Student Merit Award, in recognition of academic achievement for her studio project
鈥溾 Katherine Kelleher MLA (19)
