Elizabeth Mossop, Oberlander Prize Curator

The influential landscape architect and professor Elizabeth Mossop became the curator of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize in 2025.

The independent curator is responsible for developing the prize’s intellectual content, will support the jury process, and will have a primary role in developing the public engagement activities focusing on the laureate(s). The public programs are key to reaching the goal of increasing the recognition, visibility, and legibility of landscape architecture as a global, cultural, and professional practice. 

An advisory board comprising no more than twelve people will assist the curator. TCLF will provide the curator’s administrative support.

About Elizabeth Mossop

Professor Elizabeth Mossop is Dean of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) School of Design, Architecture and Building and a landscape architect and urbanist with wide-ranging experience in both landscape design and urban planning.  Elizabeth is a founding principal of Spackman Mossop & Michaels landscape architects based in Sydney, Australia, and New Orleans, LA. With an academic career spanning 25 years, Elizabeth has held key roles at universities in both the United States and Australia. Before joining UTS, she was Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University, one of the highest ranked landscape architecture programs in the United States. Previously, she was the Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.