Alec Spangler
- Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
121 Stuckeman
- Email axs2462@psu.edu
- Phone 814-865-6112
Biography
Alec Spangler joined the faculty at Penn State in the 2017-18 school year after working in the Brooklyn office of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates since 2012. At MVVA, he contributed to a wide range of projects, from urban-scale plans to the 8,000-square-foot Max Family Garden on the East River waterfront. Alec received his M.L.A. from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and an M.F.A. in drawing and painting from Purchase College. His undergraduate degree from Vassar College focused on art and philosophy.
Beginning with his M.F.A. thesis exploring drawing as an analogy for movement through landscape, Spangler has been interested in the relationship between the bodily experience of long distances and representations of space in art and design. At Harvard, he used a research fellowship to ride the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok, and he has since walked across his home state of Pennsylvania and traversed the Atlantic coast from Florida to Maine on a bicycle. Spangler teaches intro and second-year studios and visualization courses.