Richard Weller

Richard Weller is an Australian landscape architect and academic. He is Professor and 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] He has been Winthrop Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Western Australia,[3][4] and director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC).[5][6] 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".[7]

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"[8] at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, ACT. The built garden attracted controversy for its radical design.[9][10]

He is also identified as a major proponent for the Elizabeth Quay project in Perth, Western Australia, and this can be found in the contents of Boomtown where he uses quotes from various supporters and detractors of the project.[11][12]

Weller's design work has been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1998) as a finalist in the Seppelt Australian Art Awards[13] and in the Venice Biennale (2004). In 2002 his design was selected as a finalist in the Pentagon Memorial competition in Washington, D.C.[14] and in 2005 he was a finalist in the Tsunami Memorial competition in Thailand.[15] His early work (1990 to 1995) as consultant to Berlin landscape architecture firm Muller, Knippschild Wehberg was heavily awarded in European design competitions.[16]

Weller gave the Frederick Law Olmsted Memorial Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2011[17] and has been a regular commentator on planning and design issues.[18][19] He is author of several books including Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture (2005),[20] Boomtown 2050: Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City (2009)[21] and Made in Australia: The Future of Australian Cities (2013).[22]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v59/n17/weller.html
  2. ↑ http://www.design.upenn.edu/calendar/richard-weller-art-instrumentality
  3. ↑ https://www.socrates.uwa.edu.au/Staff/StaffProfile.aspx?Person=RichardWeller
  4. ↑ http://www.architecture.com.au/extraordinary/richard_weller.html
  5. ↑ http://www.audrc.org/wprofessor-richard-weller
  6. ↑ http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201012223201/arts-and-culture/leading-landscape-architect-richard-weller-head-urban-design-centre
  7. ↑ http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/2012_OLT_Citation_Recipients_and_citation.pdf
  8. ↑ http://www.aila.org.au/projects/ACT/goad/article02.htm
  9. ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/11/1071125590423.html
  10. ↑ http://www.copyright.bbk.ac.uk/contents/publications/workshops/theme3/rimmerpaper.pdf
  11. ↑ Weller, Richard (2009), Boomtown 2050 : scenarios for a rapidly growing city (1st ed.), UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-921401-21-3
  12. ↑ nside.org.au/trouble-in-the-city/
  13. ↑ Michael, Linda (1998), Seppelt Contemporary Art Awards 1998, Museum of Contemporary Art, ISBN 978-1-875632-63-3
  14. ↑ http://www.competitions.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=125%3Apentagon-memorial-competition-&Itemid=63
  15. ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Field-of-lights-in-tsunami-memorial-bid/2006/05/02/1146335723467.html
  16. ↑ See: Weller, Richard (2005), Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture (1st ed.), University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0-8122-3784-6
  17. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mg8rYe8B1w
  18. ↑ http://www.urbandesignaustralia.com.au/KeynoteSpeakers2010.asp
  19. ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/wa/content/2006/s2185587.htm
  20. ↑ Weller, Richard (2005), Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture (1st ed.), University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0-8122-3784-6
  21. ↑ Weller, Richard (2009), Boomtown 2050 : scenarios for a rapidly growing city (1st ed.), UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-921401-21-3
  22. ↑ Weller, Richard (2013), Made in Australia: The Future of Australian Cities (1st ed.), UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-742584-92-8
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