Faculty: Karen Leslie Nelson

Biography

Karen L. Nelson has been teaching Theory at the Rhode Island School of Design in the Department of Landscape Architecture since 1999 and has been teaching design studios and seminars at the Boston Architectural College since 1994.  Ms. Nelson is the BAC’s Acting Head of the School of Architecture. Ms. Nelson received her B.S.A.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 and her Master of Architecture from Columbia University in 1994.  Ms. Nelson brings to her teaching a passion for language, for landscapes, for rituals and for architecture based on sound and haptic conditions.  Her practice is collaborative and symbolic; she is currently working on collaborative projects that include a teahouse and a children’s book.
 

Karen Leslie Nelson

Karen Leslie Nelson

Critic
knelson02@risd.edu
454-6282

  • BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • MARCH, Columbia University

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Courses
  • LDAR-225G
    THEORY I
Landscape Architecture Foreground Image 3
 Michael Smith