Diane M. Dale
Diane M. Dale
Diane M. Dale, ASLA, JD, has been Director of the Institute for Sustainable Design since September 1998. She has been developing the platform through which the ISD can expand its capacity to address the complex land use and environmental issues confronting communities. Last October, Ms. Dale coordinated the symposium Piedmont Futures: Strategies of Change, at which business, civic, and environmental leaders joined in a dialogue on regional land use and development issues. She is assisting in the planning of another conference on land use and sprawl that the ISD will co-sponsor in October 1999. Ms. Dale has been a facilitator at planning summits for the Virginia General Assembly’s Commission on the Condition and Future of Virginia’s Cities and will be a panelist on the issue of "smart growth" at the National Conference of Women in Real Estate in October 1999.
Ms. Dale is a registered landscape architect with more than fifteen years of professional experience. In 1995, as Director of Planning at William McDonough + Partners, Ms. Dale served as the Project Director of the Port of Cape Charles Sustainable Technologies Industrial Park in Northampton County, VA. She has served as a project manager on a number of major planning and design projects, including the National Museum of the American Indian Cultural Resource Center, Suitland, MD; the Penn State Research Park Master Plan, College Township, PA; and the Windsor Waterfront Park Master Plan, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She authored the visual analysis, land use, and regulatory environment sections of the Environmental Assessment for the National Museum of the American Indians, Washington, D.C.
Ms. Dale received her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry and her Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Universita’ di Genova, Facolta di Architecttura, Genova, Italy, where she studied the impact of urbanization on the traditional rural landscape pattern. Ms. Dale also received her Juris Doctorate from the Universirt of Virginia School of Law. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the principles of land use law as a Lecturer in the School of Architecture’s Department of Urban and Environmental Planning.
University of Virginia, Institute for Sustainable Design
The University of Virginia’s Institute for Sustainable Design (ISD) was created at the School of Architecture in 1996 by Dean Emeritus William McDonough to "render visible" viable alternatives to conventional design and practice in human protection. By facilitating creative interdisciplinary collaborations, the Institute fosters the development of new creative tools for sustainable design, while advocating innovative design approaches and restorative action based on principles that recognize the interdependence of ecology, equity, and economy.