Conversations with Olmsted: His Visions for Reform - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
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Social justice, equity, and reform are not new topics for landscape architecture—rather, they are at its origin. Frederick Law Olmsted’s prominent role in shaping public opinion on social reform in the period leading up to and during the Civil War still impacts practice today. Join us for a conversation that recenters the way we tell the story of Olmsted’s work and origins of landscape architecture.
Learning objectives:
- Explore conditions of 19th century cities including intense rural-to-urban migration, industrialization, and immigration, and how these conditions impacted the discipline of landscape architecture.
- Discover how, through his writing, Olmsted confronted the institution of slavery and the cotton economy.
- Explore how Olmsted’s values of and advocacy for social reform translate to today’s urban and cultural challenges.
- Identify how, from its inception, landscape architecture aimed to address societal and environmental conditions through design, and how racial equity and environmental justice issues continue to shape what we do as designers today.
This webinar is free for all members and non-members. Log in using your ASLA username and password.
This event was co-hosted by the American Society of Landscape Architects and the National Recreation and Park Association.
Sara Zewde, ASLA
Principal & Assistant Professor
Studio Zewde & Harvard University
Sara Zewde is a landscape architect and founding principal of Studio Zewde, a landscape architecture, urban design and public art practice based in New York City. Sara is also Assistant Professor of Practice at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Her research on Olmsted’s journeys in the south and their influence on his ideas about landscape architecture will be published as a book next year.
Sara holds a master’s of landscape architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a master’s of city planning from MIT, and a BA in sociology and statistics from Boston University.
Charles Waldheim, Hon. ASLA
John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture
Harvard
Charles Waldheim is the John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is an American-Canadian architect and urbanist. Waldheim’s research examines the relations between landscape, ecology, and contemporary urbanism. He is author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books on these subjects, and his writing has been published and translated internationally. Waldheim is recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; the Visiting Scholar Research Fellowship at the Study Centre of the Canadian Centre for Architecture; the Cullinan Chair at Rice University; and the Sanders Fellowship at the University of Michigan.
John Stauffer
Sumner R. and Marshall S. Kates Professor of English and of African and African American Studies; Director of Graduate Studies, English Department
Harvard
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