Tag: Charles Waldheim
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Waldheim | Landscape as Urbanism
Charles Waldheim presents his book Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory (Princeton University Press, forthcoming) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The talk includes an interesting discussion about the discursive constitution of disciplines. Waldheim draws on Harvey’s notion of ‘spatial fix’ to identify particular moments in the history of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism…
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Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age
The Harvard Graduate School of Design will host an interesting conference & exhibition entitled Airport Landscape: Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age (more info here), an initiative by Sonja Dümpelmann and Charles Waldheim. I had the opportunity to attend one of Dümpelmann’s lectures about her research of aerial landscapes last April; her approach is really…