Faculty Profile
Matthew Potteiger

Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
202 Marshall Hall
Education
- University of California, Berkeley - MLA, 1982
- Pennsylvania State University - BSLA, 1978
Current work
Professor Potteiger's teaching, research, and community engagement centers around the vital cultural practices that shape landscapes. His current work links food and landscape systems through community-based projects aimed at creating a more sustainable and socially just food systems. This work includes the creation of Syracuse Grows, an urban agriculture advocacy group, a peri-urban farm with New American Refugees, and the first regional food system plan for Central New York, Food Plan CNY. He is the co-author, with Jamie Purinton, of Landscape Narratives: Design Practices for Telling Stories, which received a merit award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for its contribution theory and practices of using narratives in landscape interpretation and design.
Teaching Experience
- Ball State University (3 years)
- Place/culture/design, Off-Campus Program Director, Food Systems Design, Design Studios,
- SUNY College of Environmental (1984 - Present)
Practice Experience
- Collaborative design consulting with Jamie Purinton
- Resource Perspectives Inc. (6 mo.) - Graphic presentations
- San Francisco Community Design Center (7 mo.) - Play area design
- Berman French Associates (3 mo,) Site planning
Courses Taught
- LSA 226 - Foundation Design Studio I
- LSA 326 - Design Studio -- Site systems
- LSA 312 - Place/culture/deisgn
- LSA 327 - Design Studio II
- LSA 424 - Preparation for Off Campus Design Thesis Studio
- LSA 425 - Orientation for Off Campus Design Thesis Studio
- LSA 460 - Off Campus Design Thesis Studio
- LSA 461 - Off Campus Final Presentation Seminar
- LSA 470/670 - Thematic Landscape Design Studio -- Food Systems Design
- LSA 496 - Food Systems Planning, Design, and Policy
- LSA 601 - Design Studio II
- LSA 620 - Design Studio III
Current Graduate Advisees
Hamby Hamby
gehamby@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MLA
- Graduate Advisor(s): Potteiger
- Area of Study: Landscape Architecture
Hannah Zuegel
hezuegel@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MLA
- Graduate Advisor(s): Potteiger
- Area of Study: Landscape Architecture