10.01.08 - Charles Waldheim lectures at Architectural Association, London UK 01/17/08
Professor Charles Waldheim presented a lecture on January 17, 2008 titled Ford's Fields as part of the Landscape Urbanism lecture series at the Architectural Association, London UK.
A hybrid of urbanism, architecture, and landscape architecture, Landscape Urbanism has evolved in recent years as a crossdisciplinary response to the conditions of industrial decline, environmental crises and the post-fordist economies of leisure and tourism that define the contemporary city. Its distinctive approach has been to engage these conditions through the medium of landscape, a medium whose time-based qualities, openness to transformation, situation within larger ecological systems, and programmatic adaptability recommend it as a model for an urbanism that might operate in a similarly flexible and interconnected fashion.
The lecture series will try to explore different questions posed as the discipline of Landscape Urbanism gathers momentum. Issues like the political implications behind the use of the term landscape, relationships between process and scale, or its critical position in the building of the iconography of the city will be brought into debate by the different speakers.