Ellen Burke, PLA, LEED AP
| Position | Associate Professor of Sustainability in the Built Environment |
|---|---|
| Phone | 805.756.2813 |
| eburke02@calpoly.edu | |
| Office | 34-217 |
| Office Hours |
Fall 2026 |
Areas of Expertise
- Sustainable Design
- Digital Representation
- Urban Ecologies
- Interdisciplinary Design
- Productive Landscapes
Faculty Biography
Ellen Burke is a landscape architect whose practice and research focuses on resilience and regeneration in urban contexts, including food systems, novel ecologies, landscape performance technologies, and community-based environmental justice projects. Trained as a landscape architect, and as an artist, she has an interest in exploring non-normative modes of practice, and believes landscape architecture is a medium for re-establishing connections between people and the land. She currently teaches theory, representation and design studio courses.
She holds a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from Vassar College.
Ellen previously was an associate at SWA Group, where she worked on a range of projects including the Palo Alto Art Center and the master plan for an 1,800 acre agro-ecological community in Stockton, CA; she currently maintains her own design practice, Grow City Studio. Her research investigations have been funded by Art Place America and the Landscape Architecture Foundation.
