John Jennings Lecturer

B.A., University of Toronto; M.Arch., SCI-Arc

Mr. Jennings is a principal at DRY Design, an award winning landscape architecture and design firm in Los Angeles. Mr. Jennings is also the founding member of the HEDGE Design Collective, whose group talents provide a pool and cross pollenization of interdisciplinary knowledge and skills. Mr. Jennings graduated in 1989 with honors from the University of Toronto with a Bachelors of Art in English, and received his Masters of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles in 1995. Mr. Jennings had made the study of liminal spaces the focus of his thesis, which he continues to bring in as an active part of his practice by continuing to explore the blurring delineation between function and space, interior and exteriors. Additionally, Japanese landscape design has been a formative and continuing area for design growth for Mr. Jennings, following an in-depth 6 month study in Japan. His teaching experience has focused on non-Western gardens and also in facilitating Architecture design studio. Prior to formation of DRY Design, Mr. Jennings worked as a designer and project manager at Pugh + Scarpa, Architecture from 1996 – 1999, following a one year internship with Frank Ghery and Associates in 1995. Recent projects for Mr. Jennings include the completion of the 3773 Studio, an alternative living and studio space, and the integrated architecture and landscape design of Lengau Lodge on the Welgevonden Game Reserve in northern South Africa.

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