UNCC SoA - Planning, Ecology and Emergence of Landscape
February 17, 2010 - February 17, 2010
05:00 - 06:30 PM
Location: UNCC Storrs Hall 110
Speaker: Charles Waldheim
Details:
Earn 2 AIA Continuing Education Credits. Free and open to the public.

Charles Waldheim is Professor and Chair of Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. His research focuses on landscape architecture in relation to contemporary urbanism. He coined the term “landscape urbanism” to describe emerging landscape design practices in the context of North American urbanism, and has written extensively on the topic including the edited book The Landscape Urbanism Reader (2006). He is author of Constructed Ground (2001) and co-editor of Chicago Architecture and Urbanism: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives (2005).

Professor Waldheim’s lecture will provide a historical survey of the role of landscape architecture in the formation of cities and regions, and examine several recent projects in North America that propose landscape and ecology as creative drivers of urban design. Such propositions will suggest potential models for planning, informed by contemporary understandings of landscape and ecology as new media of urban design.