November 15, 2025 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm EST

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.

Speakers:

**Gareth Doherty ASLA,** Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Affiliate of the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

**Charles Waldheim,** John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture, Director of the Office for Urbanization, and Co-Director of the Master in Design Studies program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design

About the Speakers:
Gareth Doherty ASLA is a landscape architect who takes a human- centered approach to design that aspires to shape environmentally and socially just landscapes. Doherty contributes to core knowledge in landscape architecture through applying ethnographic fieldwork and participatory design methodologies to design and theory. This work critically reassesses 20th-century approaches to the observed landscape to advance new pedagogy, tools, and techniques that address contemporary design issues of equity, identity, cultural space, and the human impacts of climate change. Through what he terms “landscape fieldwork,” Doherty unravels diverse landscape narratives that have not yet been formally documented as evidenced through his books, Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State (University of California Press, 2017), Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design (University of Virginia Press, 2025); and his recent fieldwork and forthcoming publications on African landscape architecture. Doherty is founding director of the Critical Landscapes Design Lab.

Charles Waldheim is an architect and urbanist based in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is John E. Irving Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he directs the school’s Office for Urbanization. Waldheim’s research examines the relationships between landscape, ecology, and contemporary urbanism. Waldheim is author, editor, or co-editor of numerous publications on these topics, including Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory, The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Technical Lands: A Critical Primer, Cartographic Grounds, Third Coast Atlas, Case: Lafayette Park Detroit, and Stalking Detroit. Waldheim is recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; the Visiting Scholar Research Fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture; the Sanders Fellowship at the University of Michigan; and the Cullinan Chair at Rice University. He has been a visiting scholar at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany.

This event is offered in person only and is Free and Open to the Public

Organized by

Harvard Alumni Architectural and Urban Society (HAAUS) , and Head Hi Bookstore Cafe in Brooklyn