Charles Waldheim

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture

48 Quincy Street, Gund Hall, Cambridge MA 02138

617-495-2367

email: [email protected]

member since: 2014

Profile Bio:

Charles Waldheim is the John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Charles Waldheim's research focuses on contemporary urbanism and its relation to landscape. Waldheim coined the term “landscape urbanism” to describe emerging design practices in the context of North American urbanism and has written extensively on the positions, practices, and precedents of the topic. Waldheim has taught at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the Swiss Federal Institute (ETH) Zurich, the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, and the Technical University (TU) Vienna. He has been named recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and Research Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). Waldheim is a licensed architect and maintains a consulting practice, Urban Agency, advising public and private clients on a range of issues related to contemporary urbanism. Waldheim received the Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded the Paul Cret Medal for Master’s Thesis Prize and the Wil Melhorn Prize for graduate work in architectural theory.