Richard Weller, professor of landscape architecture and urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, will take attendees on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global culture.
This talk will be a condensed version of the tour found in Weller’s new book of the same name, ranging across Steve Jobs’ Apple Park in California, a small field station for the protection of wild orangutans in Borneo, the Great Green Wall in Central Africa, the Trump resort Mar-a-Lago, and more.
Richard will be joined in conversation with a local landscape architecture expert.
The cost of tickets is deductible from purchases of Richard Weller’s accompanying book, To the Ends of the Earth (Birkhauser 2024), available on the night. This talk also accompanies an exhibition that will be showing at the CY Space in Collingwood Yards over the course of Melbourne Design Week.
Richard Weller Speaker
Richard Weller is professor and former chair of landscape architecture and urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, where he (together with Fritz Steiner) established the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. He is co-founder (with Tatum Hands) and former creative director of LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, founding director (with Vladimir Sitta) of Australian design firm Room 4.1.3., and holds adjunct professorships at the University of Western Australia and the University of New South Wales. In 2012 he received an Australian national teaching award for a sustained to commitment to design education, and in 2017 and 2018 he was listed by Design Intelligence as one of the top 25 most respected design educators in America.
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Richard Weller, professor of landscape architecture and urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, will take attendees on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global culture.
This talk will be a condensed version of the tour found in Weller’s new book of the same name, ranging across Steve Jobs’ Apple Park in California, a small field station for the protection of wild orangutans in Borneo, the Great Green Wall in Central Africa, the Trump resort Mar-a-Lago, and more.
Richard will be joined in conversation with a local landscape architecture expert.
The cost of tickets is deductible from purchases of Richard Weller’s accompanying book, To the Ends of the Earth (Birkhauser 2024), available on the night. This talk also accompanies an exhibition that will be showing at the CY Space in Collingwood Yards over the course of Melbourne Design Week.
Richard Weller Speaker
Richard Weller is professor and former chair of landscape architecture and urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, where he (together with Fritz Steiner) established the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology. He is co-founder (with Tatum Hands) and former creative director of LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, founding director (with Vladimir Sitta) of Australian design firm Room 4.1.3., and holds adjunct professorships at the University of Western Australia and the University of New South Wales. In 2012 he received an Australian national teaching award for a sustained to commitment to design education, and in 2017 and 2018 he was listed by Design Intelligence as one of the top 25 most respected design educators in America.