Valin, Ivan
BSc (Arch) Virginia; MLA + MArch UC Berkeley
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Ivan Valin is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Division of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. His ongoing research and design is seated in a multidisciplinary background and explores urban and environmental design at the intersections of strategy, technology, and detail.
Valin’s design work has been exhibited internationally with the National Building Museum, Housing for Humanity, the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam, and the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Biennale. Ivan received his B.S. with distinction in Architecture from the University of Virginia and his professional degrees (M.Arch & MLA) form the University of California, Berkeley, where he was the recipient of the G. Hoshi Prize and the J.K. Branner Travelling Fellowship.
Ivan has worked for more than ten years in private practice, most recently as a designer with Tom Leader Studio in Berkeley California and AECOM Planning and Design in Hong Kong where he frequently addressed ideas of urban and ecological intervention, hydrological frameworks, and ‘open’ programming. Before joining the Division of Landscape Architecture, Valin held positions in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at HKU, and the Landscape Architecture Department at UC Berkeley.
He currently instructs the MLA foundation design studio and leads seminars on Strategic Landscape Planning and Materiality in Landscape Design.
Studios
Support Structures: An Introduction to Design Fundamentals in Landscape ArchitectureIvan Valin
MLA Studios2014-15
Studio Yangon 2015: Wet CityIvan Valin & Scott Melbourne
MLA Studios2014-15
Mega: the Landscapes of China's urban enclavesIvan Valin
MLA Thesis2014-15
An Introduction to Design Fundamentals in Landscape ArchitectureIvan Valin & Susanne Trumpf
MLA Studios2015-16
Studio Yangon 2016: Peripheral EcologiesIvan Valin , Michael Kokora & Scott Melbourne
MLA Studios2015-16
Mega: the Landscapes of China's urban enclavesIvan Valin
MLA Thesis2015-16
Landscape Planning Studio: Design on the Road to Burma 2017Ashley Kelly & Ivan Valin
BALS Studios2016-17
Interstitial Hong KongIvan Valin , Susanne Trumpf & Xiaoxuan Lu
MLA Studios2016-17
Collective Infrastructures: the landscape of Hong Kong's public housingIvan Valin
MLA Thesis2016-17
Common Ground: New Strategies for Public in Hong Kong's Aging Housing EstatesIvan Valin & Maxime Decaudin
BALS Studios2017-18
Forum+ | Vivarium: Opening & Closing Strategies for Reclaiming CentralIvan Valin
MLA Studios2017-8
Another Nature: Landscape, design and development in the urban (sub)tropicsIvan Valin
MLA Thesis2017-18
Uncovering Site and Process in the Landscape: Assembles, Gradients and FrameworksIvan Valin
PDLA Courses2018-19
Urban Resilience by Design: Adaptive Landscapes for the PRDIvan Valin & Sunnie Lau
MLA Thesis2018-19
Uncovering Site and Process in the Landscape: Assembles, Gradients, and FrameworksIvan Valin
PDLA Courses2019-20
East Java Studio: Landscape Strategies for the Urbanizing TropicsIvan Valin , Matthew Pryor & Scott Melbourne
MLA Studios2019-20
Toward a New Nature, or, Landscape's reckoning with technologyIvan Valin
MLA Thesis2019-20
Research
Yangon Ecologies: Landscape-responsive urban growth models for a region in transitionIvan Valin & Scott Melbourne
Sustainable High Density Cities lab
Landscape Dynamics in YangonIvan Valin
The social and ecological heritage of street trees in YangonIvan Valin
A Landscape Typological Study of Public Housing in Hong KongIvan Valin
Mud and Jungle: the Tropical Urban Ecologies of YangonIvan Valin
Urban ResilienceAshley Kelly , Cecilia Chu , Eric H Schuldenfrei , Ivan Valin & Michael Kokora
+StL: A Landscape Master plan in St. LouisIvan Valin
Examining Public Open Space in The High-density CityIvan Valin
