Simon Bussiere
Simon Bussiere is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He teaches the core landscape design studios and seminars in urban ecological analysis and design. Bussiere’s research focus is centered on ecological urbanism, design practice and pedagogy. Trained in landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (BSLA 2005) and Harvard University (MLA 2009), Simon’s broad professional experience ranges from design-build work in New England to large-scale landscape architecture and urbanism with EDAW/AECOM Australia, to research, design, and construction with Estudio Teddy Cruz in Nicaragua, and most recently in a hybrid teaching-practice through Landworks-Sardinia, and the University of Hawai‘i Community Design Center. His recent funded projects include Kekaha Kai State Park, for Hawai‘i DLNR, and the Waipahu Transit-Oriented Development, Hawai‘i, for the Hawai‘i State Office of Planning. Simon has held academic positions at Ball State University, University of Nagasaki, the University of Utah Asia Campus in Seoul, and Tongji University in Shanghai through the UH Global Track Program. He serves as Second Vice-President of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and is a Past-President of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Hawai‘i.