Cat Soergel Marshall

Biography

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Kent State University. Marshall’s work in documenting Southern Louisiana’s cultural landscapes has been published and exhibited in various international venues. Her work traces natural forces and the spatial memory of the sublime landscape of Louisiana using cartographic tracings and photographic montage to plot patterns of change over time. 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. Her work on documenting complex landscape conditions has been published in Landscape Architecture Magazine and the Journal of Landscape Architecture (JOLA) and chapters for Transforming with Water and Perspectives on Creativity.

Her research has been presented at international and national conferences, including International Federation of Landscape Architects, European Council of Landscape Architects, Alliance of Preservation Technologies, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation, Environmental Design Research Association and the Iraqi War Memorial Symposium.

Media

Creative Process: Landscape and Art in the Built Environment | with Faculty and Friends Series with Gary Smith, FASLA | College of Architecture and Environmental Design | Kent State University | 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

Education

Harvard University Graduate School of Design | Master in Landscape Architecture
Ithaca College | Bachelor of Arts, Architectural Art History

Expertise

Design Theory | Landscape Representation | Cultural Landscape

Publications

Walking and Drawing | in Book Title: Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods Action Tools | Editors: Paula H. Horrigan and Thomas Oles | Publisher: Routledge | Accepted in Press | 2022 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 |Accepted in Press | 2022 256 pages | ISBN: 1138244325 ISBN13: 978-1138244320
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’s Sweet Olive Cemetery, 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 für 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 – Teaching Landscape Architecture students how to Speculate on Landscape Change | Short Paper presented | Environmental Design Research Assoc. Annual Mtg – 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 – 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
Seeing the Landscape Breathe | Journal of Landscape Architecture | Catherine Dee, ed. Autumn 2008, vol.6.
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

Affiliations

American Society of Landscape Architects | Council of Educators of Landscape Architects

Awards/Achievements

Ohio ASLA Student Honor Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement for his studio project “The Revitalized Valley” Brendan Alcorn MLA (22) | 2021
Ohio ASLA Student Honor Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement for his studio project “Maritime Emergence” James Sasser MLA (21) | 2020
Ohio ASLA Student Merit Award, in recognition of academic achievement for her studio project “Bat Camp” Katherine Kelleher MLA (19) | 2019
Assessment Pioneer Award, Kent State University | 2018
2017 ASLA Student Awards | Honor Awards in the Planning and Analysis category | Disaster Autopsy Model | Donguk Lee and Xiwei Shen | LSU
RRSLA Directors Award | School of Landscape Architecture | Curating Accreditation | 2017
2013 LAASLA Student Awards | LSU DeSoto Park Design | Erin Percevault, Ace Martin and Daniel Christian
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Projects Space | New York City | 2011
2010 Competition Finalist | Iraqi War Memorial in conjunction with iraqimemorial.org Light Trails, an Iraqi War Memorial Exhibition with iraqimemorial.org | San Jose | 2011
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery | University of Nevada | Reno, Nevada | 2010
2008 ASLA Student Awards | Honor Award in the General Design category | LSU | The Lower Ninth Ward and Bayou Bienvenue: An Inherent Opportunity | Conners Ladner, Chris Barnes and Robert Bass
Outstanding Teaching Award | College of Art and Design | LSU | 2008
Outstanding Teaching award for Undergraduate Teaching | Tiger Foundation LSU | 2008
RRSLA Directors Award | School of Landscape Architecture | Teaching achievement in a studio | 2007