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Future of the American City

Office for Urbanizationfotac.gsd.harvard.edu
An initiative of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Episodes

Landscapes of Retreat

Rosetta Elkin is a landscape architect and author. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her new book Landscapes of Retreat. Future of the American City is a project of the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is produced by Charlie Gaillard, Olani Ewunnet, Aziz Barbar, Jeffrey S. Nesbit, and Mercedes … Continued

Dec 10, 202342 minTranscript available on Metacast

The Architecture of Disability

Designer, historian, and theorist David Gissen joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book The Architecture of Disability. Future of the American City is a project of the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is produced by Charlie Gaillard, Olani Ewunnet, Aziz Barbar, Jeffrey S. Nesbit, and Mercedes Peralta.

Nov 17, 202351 minTranscript available on Metacast

Manual of Biogenic House Sections

Architects Paul Lewis and Marc Tsurumaki, principals of the New York-based practice LTL Architects, join Charles Waldheim to discuss their recent book Manual of Biogenic House Sections.

Oct 27, 202352 minTranscript available on Metacast

New York Review of Architecture

Author and publisher Nicolas Kemper and architectural historian and critic Phillip Denny join Charles Waldheim to discuss the publication New York Review of Architecture.

Oct 06, 202344 minTranscript available on Metacast

Jeff Hou

Jeff Hou is an author, advocate, and educator. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his research on urban resistance and popular protest movements in the public realm.

May 12, 202347 minTranscript available on Metacast

Shannon Mattern

Shannon Mattern is a media theorist and design anthropologist. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her new book A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences.

Apr 27, 202354 minTranscript available on Metacast

Ed Wall

Ed Wall is a landscape architect and urbanist. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Contesting Public Spaces: Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London.

Apr 13, 202352 minTranscript available on Metacast

Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara

Architect Jennifer Bonner and structural engineer Hanif Kara join Charles Waldheim to discuss their new book Blank: Speculations on CLT.

Mar 30, 202349 minTranscript available on Metacast

Peggy Deamer and Quilian Riano

Architects Peggy Deamer and Quilian Riano join Charles Waldheim to discuss their advocacy for architecture as a form of labor and their various roles in The Architecture Lobby.

Mar 16, 202355 minTranscript available on Metacast

Abby Spinak

Abby Spinak is an environmental historian and planning scholar whose work focuses on energy histories and the politics of infrastructure. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her research on rural electric cooperatives in the United States.

Mar 02, 202350 minTranscript available on Metacast

Sam Stein

Sam Stein is a geographer and housing policy analyst. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.

Feb 16, 202350 minTranscript available on Metacast

Laurie Olin

Laurie Olin is a landscape architect, author, and founding partner of the landscape architecture and urban design firm OLIN. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Essays on Landscape.

Feb 02, 202346 minTranscript available on Metacast

Marshall Brown

Marshall Brown is an architect and urbanist and the principal of Marshall Brown Projects. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Recurrent Visions.

May 19, 202248 minTranscript available on Metacast

Signe Nielsen

Signe Nielsen is a landscape architect and principal of MNLA. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss Little Island, her role on the New York City Public Design Commission, and her career on the New York waterfront.

May 05, 202246 minTranscript available on Metacast

Eric Rodenbeck

Eric Rodenbeck is the founder and Creative Director of Stamen, a data visualization and cartography studio based in the Bay Area. Eric joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his work with the Getty Research Institute and their acquisition of Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles archive.

Apr 21, 202239 minTranscript available on Metacast

Sara Zewde

Sara Zewde is a landscape architect and founding principal of Studio Zewde, a landscape, urban design, and public art practice based in New York City. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her recent work as well as her research following Frederick Law Olmsted’s reporting in the antebellum South.

Apr 07, 202241 minTranscript available on Metacast

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi

Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are principals and founders of Weiss / Manfredi Architecture / Landscape / Urbanism. They join Charles Waldheim to discuss their practice and their work on the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles.

Mar 24, 202243 minTranscript available on Metacast

David Gissen

David Gissen is a designer, author, and educator. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his interest in architecture and the bodies it imagines.

Mar 10, 202238 minTranscript available on Metacast

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is an urban designer and educator. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her proposal for a global moratorium on new construction.

Feb 24, 202243 minTranscript available on Metacast

Jorge Otero-Pailos

Jorge Otero-Pailos is an artist, architect, and educator whose work is concerned with the future meaning of the past. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his recent practice.

Feb 10, 202243 minTranscript available on Metacast

Grahame Shane

Grahame Shane is an architect, urbanist, and educator. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his career in urban design.

Dec 30, 202139 minTranscript available on Metacast

Lisa Servon

Lisa Servon is Penn Presidential Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss the unbanked and underbanked and the financial divide in America’s retail banking system.

Dec 16, 202145 minTranscript available on Metacast

Alex Krieger

Alex Krieger is an architect, urbanist, and author. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book, City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present.

Dec 02, 202144 minTranscript available on Metacast

Amale Andraos

Amale Andraos is co-founder and principal of the architecture firm WORKac. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her recent work.

Nov 18, 202138 minTranscript available on Metacast

Fritz Steiner

Fritz Steiner is Dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his work in ecological planning and his new book, Megaregions and America’s Future.

Nov 04, 202140 minTranscript available on Metacast

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Vishaan Chakrabarti is an architect, urbanist, and founder of the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU). He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his recent work and practice.

Oct 21, 202142 minTranscript available on Metacast

Billy Fleming

Billy Fleming is an urban planner and Director of the McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his work, research, and advocacy around design and the Green New Deal.

Oct 06, 202142 minTranscript available on Metacast

Kate Orff

Kate Orff is a landscape architect and founding principal of SCAPE. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her recent work on the future of the American City.

Sep 23, 202144 minTranscript available on Metacast

Maurice Cox

Maurice Cox is the Commissioner of Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his career in public service and recent work in Chicago.

Sep 09, 202148 minTranscript available on Metacast

Fredy and Mies

Danielle Aubert is a graphic designer interested in the history of design and labor. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her work in Detroit, including research on Fredy Perlman and the Detroit Printing Co-Op as well as Mies van der Rohe’s Lafayette Park.

May 27, 202149 minTranscript available on Metacast