Zaneta Hong MLA ’07, lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the GSD, will be the editor of Platform 8, to be released in Fall 2015. In the coming weeks and throughout the summer, she will work closely with a team of GSD students to produce Platform 8 and the related Spring 2016 exhibition. Since joining the GSD faculty in 2012, Hong has been named a Daniel Urban Kiley Fellow and received a Certificate of Teaching Excellence from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

Along with Michael Leighton Beaman, she is curator of the exhibit, Landformation Catalogue, on view in the Loeb Library through May 15th. Hong graduated from the GSD’s Landscape Architecture program in 2007, prior to which she studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Cornell University. Before her GSD appointment, she was a lecturer in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture and the Materials Lab Curator at the University of Texas, Austin School of Architecture, where she initiated, designed, and developed the online materials website and database along with the Advanced Materials Research Lab and Gallery.