Book talk with authors Gareth Doherty and Charles Waldheim

Join us for an afternoon presentation and discussion on two books, Landscape Is...! and Landscape Fieldwork, recently published on the topic of landscape architecture with authors Gareth Doherty and Charles Waldheim.

Landscape Fieldwork presents the crossroads landscape architecture is currently at. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage points of design, environmental studies, and the social sciences puts it in a prime position to address the most pressing issues of our time, such as climate change and social inequality. Its current reliance on digital and technological solutions, however, has increasingly caused landscape architects to lose sight of the ways in which humans actually use spaces. And while landscapes are designed all over the world, the discipline remains inordinately centered on the Global North. Landscape Fieldwork alters that long-standing paradigm through real-life examples that provide tools for practitioners to engage more deeply with multidimensional,…