Waldheim, Charles

Academic, designer, writer

Affiliations:

• John E. Irving professor and chair of landscape architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, to the present
• Principal, Urban Agency, to the present

Papers and other published materials:

• Waldheim, C. (2006a). Landscapes as Urbanism. In The Landscape Urbanism Reader (pp. 35-54). New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
• Waldheim, C. (2006b). A Reference Manifesto. In The Landscape Urbanism Reader (pp. 13-19). New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
• Waldheim, C. (2006c). Precedents for a North American Landscape Urbanism. In On Landscape Urbanism (pp. 292-303). Austin TX: Center for American Architecture and Design University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture.
• Waldheim, C. (2006c). The Landscape Urbanism Reader. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
• Waldheim, C. (2011). Chicago O’Hare: A Natural and Cultural History.
• Waldheim, C. (2012). Ford’s Fields: Essays on Landscape, Urbanism, and Industrial Economy.

Education:

• Master of Architecture, Paul Cret Medal, Melhorn Award (Graduate), University of Pennsylvania School of Design, to 1989

Intellectual positions:

• Landscape fills a professional void left by planners.
• Landscape is more efficient than urbanism at creating formal effects, and is more appropriate to decentralized urbanization.
• Landscape Urbanism is a more challenging and appropriate alternative to "nostalgic urban consumption" and "public therapy."
• Postmodernism is "layered, non-hierarchical, flexible, and strategic."
• Sprawl need not be considered normative, but it must be accepted as the reality.
• The city is not in a dialectical relationship with nature.
• The image of untamed pastoral nature as an ideal is unrealistic in modern times.