Beginning
career at MSU 1976
Retired
2001
Miriam Easton
Rutz
Associate
Professor
Urban
and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture Programs
Michigan
State University
e-mail:
rutz@msu.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Bachelor
of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1965
Teaching
Certificate, Graduate College of Education, University of California, Berkeley,
1967
Master
of Science, School of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Arizona, 1973
Visiting
the Louve with students on exchange with the University of Dortmund
Academic Experience
Associate Professor, Urban
and Regional Planning/Landscape Architecture, Michigan State University, 1976
to 2001
Guest
Professor, University of Dortmund, Department of Spatial Planning, Germany,
Fall 1997
Visiting
Faculty, Architecture and Town Planning, Technion, Israel Institute of
Technology, Haifa, Spring 1993
Visiting
Fellow, University of Western Australia, College of Architecture, Nedlands,
Fall 1992
Assistant
Professor and Lecturer, Landscape Architecture, University of Arizona, 1971-76
Lecturer,
Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley,
Summer 1975
Art
Specialist, Newport Mesa School District, California, 1967-71
Professional Practice
Rutz and Rutz, Landscape
Architecture and Recreation Planning, 1978 to present
Guy
S. Greene and Associates, Landscape Architects, Principal, Tucson, Arizona,
1971-74
Sasaki,
Walker and Associates, Landscape Architects and Site Planners, San Francisco,
1965-66
Jones
and Peterson, Landscape Architects, 1964-68
Receiving
an award with my friends Dr. June Thomas and Dr. Merle Heidemann
HONORS AND AWARDS
Michigan State University
Faculty Woman of the Year, 2000
Distinguished
Member, Landscape Architecture National Honor Society, 1998
Honor
Award Winner, National Bagley Bridge Competition, Detroit, 1998
American
Society of Landscape Architects, Recognition of Special Services 1991
President
and Board Member, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, 1976-1986
President
and Board Member, Michigan Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects
1988-1991
Caring
for the gardens on Michigan's Capitol Square
DESIGNER AND CONSULTANT
Michigan State Capitol
Gardens, Lansing, Michigan
Iron
County Heritage Trail, Iron River and Crystal Falls, Upper Peninsula, Michigan
Iron
River Library Children’s Garden, Iron River, Michigan
Sparrow
Healing Gardening, Lansing, Michigan
Adaptive
Reuse of Industrial Sites Study, Southwest Detroit, Michigan
Windows,
Historic Preservation Plan for Big Rapids, Michigan
Lansing
River Trail to Lake Lansing Planning Study, Lansing, Michigan
Tennis
Court Complexes, Lansing, Mason, Sturgis, Grand Rapids, Grosse Pointe Farms,
Michigan
Working
in Iron County with extension agent Steve Nelson
AUTHOR
A History of the Public
Gardens of Michigan, MSU Press, 2001
A
Guide Book to the Public Gardens of Michigan, MSU Press, 2001
Chapter,
Midwestern Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois Press, 2000
Entry
in Pioneers of the American Landscape, McGraw-Hill, 2000
Article,"History
of Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture," Landscape Journal,
spring 1997.
Paper,
"Participatory Planning in the USA" in Integrierte
Stadtteilerneuerung und Bewohneraktivierung, Germany, 1997
Emma
Genevieve Gillette Nature’s Guardian Angel, a children’s book, Michigan Women’s
Hall of Fame, 1994
Entries
in Landscape Architecture, An Illustrated History in Timelines, Site Plans, and
Biography, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1993
Entries,
Buildings of Michigan, Oxford Press, 1993
Chapter,
American Landscape Architecture, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1989
Chapter,
Historic Women of Michigan, Michigan Women’s Study Association, 1988
Guide
to the Design of Tennis Courts, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, 1986
Art
Today and Everyday, Parker Publishers, 1973
An
illustration from the Public Gardens of Michigan, Scott Fountain, Belle Isle,
Detroit
Returning
home to Pauma Valley, California
P. O. 1337, Pauma Valley,
California, 92061
760 742-3443