Joseph Disponzio

Program director Joseph Disponzio is a landscape architect with the New York City Department of Parks of Recreation. He has over two decades of teaching experience on the university and adult education level. Formerly, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Georgia, he has also taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Bryn Mawr College, and was three times a fellow in landscape studies at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C. For close to a decade he directed the certificate program in landscape design at the New York Botanical Garden. He is a registered landscape architect in New York and member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He holds an M.L.A. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is a noted author and scholar of garden history, specializing in the picturesque garden tradition. His latest book is Territories: Contemporary European Landscape Design.

Joseph Disponzio supervises the Internship.