Centre for Landscape Research

The Centre for Landscape Research (CLR) provides a support structure and a culture of research aimed at enhancing the knowledge base of the profession of landscape architecture at the University of Toronto. Also, it seeks to provide research infrastructure to MLA, MUD and MArch faculty and students who have research interests overlapping with the knowledge base of landscape architecture.

The CLR is very committed to multidisciplinary research and welcomes participants from any discipline. CLR is closely associated with the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) and is involved with several national and international research units, including the ICVDM at Waterloo & Laval, UBC, ETH Zurich, and GSD Harvard. Most recently, the CLR has played a significant role in pan-Canadian research efforts that have lead to the formation of the Canadian Design Research Network (CDRN). Architecture and CLR collaborate extremely closely in CDRN activities and management on behalf of Daniels.

Throughout its history CLR has extended its facilities and activities to Architecture, Planning, and Urban Design. The Centre has no base budget and does not do teaching; instead, it coordinates infrastructure and funding contributed by faculty to enhance teaching that fosters graduate research with an interest in landscape. In addition to many specific research topics developed by individual faculty, the CLR has two well established thematic areas in which several faculty collaborate. These themes are landscape visualization (co-directed by John Danahy) and landscape infrastructure (co-directed by Prof. Bélanger).

For more information contact John W. Danahy at john.danahy@daniels.utoronto.ca or go to the CLR section under Resources.