Richard Weller Explained

Richard Weller is an Australian landscape architect and academic. He is Professor and former Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, having succeeded James Corner in 2013.[1] Weller also holds the Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania,[2] is on the board of directors of the Landscape Architecture Foundation, Washington D.C.,[3] and is Creative Director of the award-winning LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture.[4] He was formerly a Winthrop Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Western Australia,[5] and director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC).[6] [7] He has received a number of awards for teaching excellence including a 2012 national citation "for sustained commitment to inspiring and enabling students to engage creatively and critically with complex design problems".[8] In 2017, and again in 2018, Weller was named by DesignIntelligence as one of the "25 most-admired educators" based on a comprehensive survey across the US design industry. "Weller demonstrates an intense engagement and commitment to students' academic and professional careers", according to the report. "He is advancing the profession through a critical look at past and current issues in ecology and design . . . shows humility and humanity in a challenging profession, and has the ability to always call us back to the biggest ideas that design needs to address."[9] [10] In 2020, Weller was inducted into the Academy of Fellows of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA).[11]

Works

Weller is a landscape architect and former co-director (with Vladimir Sitta) of Australian landscape architecture firm Room 4.1.3. whose built projects include the "Garden of Australian Dreams"[12] at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, ACT. The built garden attracted controversy for its radical design.[13] [14] He was also part of the original design team for the Elizabeth Quay project in Perth, Western Australia.[15] [16]

Weller's design work has been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1998) as a finalist in the Seppelt Contemporary Art Awards.[17] His work has also been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2004, 2021), the MAXXI Gallery in Rome (2016), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (2017), the Canadian Design Museum in Toronto (2018), and the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2020) as part of the "Countryside, The Future" exhibition curated by Rem Koolhaas. Weller exhibited as an invited participant in the central pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale di Architettura curated by Hashim Sarkis, at the 2022 Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and at CAFA in Beijing (2023).[18] [19]

In 2002 Weller's design was selected as a finalist in the Pentagon Memorial competition in Washington, D.C.[20] and in 2005 he was a finalist in the Tsunami Memorial competition in Thailand.[21] His early work (1990 to 1995) as consultant to Berlin landscape architecture firm Muller, Knippschild Wehberg (now Lützow 7) was heavily awarded in European design competitions.[22]

Research and publications

Weller gave the Frederick Law Olmsted Memorial Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2011,[23] and many invited lectures and addresses including at Milano Architecture Week (Milan, 2019),[24] the first World Forum on Urban Forests (Mantova, 2018),[25] and to the UN Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Montreal, 2017). He is a regular commentator on planning and design issues.[26] [27] He is author of numerous books and over 100 single-authored papers. His publications include:

Notes and References

  1. Landscape Architecture Department at Penn Design: Richard Weller. University of Pennsylvania. 59. 17. 15 January 2013.
  2. Web site: Landscape Architecture PennDesign. www.design.upenn.edu. 9 June 2019.
  3. Web site: Board of Directors Landscape Architecture Foundation. lafoundation.org. 9 June 2019.
  4. Web site: ABOUT - laplusjournal. laplusjournal.com. 9 June 2019.
  5. Web site: Richard Weller. University of Western Australia. 9 June 2019.
  6. Web site: In Profile: Richard Weller. 27 September 2016. Street Furniture. 9 June 2019.
  7. News: Leading landscape architect Richard Weller to head Urban Design Centre. University of Western Australia. 22 December 2010. 9 June 2019.
  8. Web site: Archived copy . www.olt.gov.au . 12 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121223013249/http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/2012_OLT_Citation_Recipients_and_citation.pdf . 23 December 2012 . dead.
  9. Web site: Richard Weller Among 'Most Admired Educators' in Landscape Architecture. University of Pennsylvania. 27 September 2017. 9 June 2019.
  10. Top Architecture Schools of 2019. David Gilmore. Architectural Record. 4 September 2018. 9 June 2019.
  11. Web site: Landscape Architecture | Weitzman School.
  12. Web site: AILA projects . www.aila.org.au . 12 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070904105709/http://www.aila.org.au/projects/ACT/goad/article02.htm . 4 September 2007 . dead.
  13. News: Gough! Splutter! Museum's blue poles cause a whole new row. The Age. 12 December 2003. 9 June 2019.
  14. Web site: Edward Elgar. The garden of Australian Dreams: The Moral Rights of Landscape Architects. ACIPA.
  15. Book: Weller, Richard. Boomtown 2050 : scenarios for a rapidly growing city. 2009. UWA Publishing. 1st. 978-1-921401-21-3.
  16. Web site: Trouble in the city. Peter Spearritt. Inside Story. 22 October 2009. 9 June 2019.
  17. Book: Michael, Linda. Seppelt Contemporary Art Awards 1998. 1998. Museum of Contemporary Art. 978-1-875632-63-3.
  18. Web site: Biennale Architettura 2020 | Biennale Architettura 2020: How will we live together? . 27 February 2020 . 27 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200227193717/https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/biennale-architettura-2020-how-will-we-live-together . dead .
  19. Web site: Biennale Architettura 2020 | Participants . 1 April 2020 . 21 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200321190401/https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2020/participants . dead .
  20. Web site: A Pean to its Founders in Weimar New Bauhaus Museum Commemorates an Anniversary. 9 June 2019.
  21. News: Field of lights in tsunami memorial bid. The Age. 3 May 2006. 9 June 2019.
  22. Book: Weller, Richard. Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture. 2005. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1st. 0-8122-3784-6.
  23. Web site: Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Richard Weller, "ZOOMSCAPE X5". Harvard University. 9 June 2019.
  24. Web site: Weitzman on Risk, Future Airports, Rebuilding Notre-Dame.
  25. https://www.wfuf2018.com/public/file/programmascientificoesecutivoweb1-25613.pdf
  26. News: Bridging the future planning gap: 35 million become the 'lost souls'. Catherine Armitage. 24 November 2012. The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 June 2019.
  27. News: Housing the masses as Perth doubles in size. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 March 2008. 10 May 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20100110203044/http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/wa/content/2006/s2185587.htm. 10 January 2010. dead.
  28. Book: Weller, Richard. Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture. 2005. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1st. 0-8122-3784-6.
  29. Book: Weller, Richard. Boomtown 2050: scenarios for a rapidly growing city. 2009. UWA Publishing. 1st. 978-1-921401-21-3.
  30. Book: Weller, Richard. Made in Australia: The Future of Australian Cities. 2013. UWA Publishing. 1st. 978-1-742584-92-8.
  31. Web site: Atlas for the End of the World. atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com. 9 June 2019.
  32. Web site: Design with Nature Now.
  33. Web site: Beautiful China. 20 November 2019.

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