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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] 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]

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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:

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  3. ↑ "Board of Directors | Landscape Architecture Foundation". lafoundation.org. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
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  7. ↑ "Leading landscape architect Richard Weller to head Urban Design Centre". University of Western Australia. 22 December 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  8. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.olt.gov.au. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  10. ↑ David Gilmore (4 September 2018). "Top Architecture Schools of 2019". Architectural Record. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  11. ↑ "Landscape Architecture | Weitzman School".
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  13. ↑ "Gough! Splutter! Museum's blue poles cause a whole new row". The Age . 12 December 2003. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  14. ↑ Edward Elgar. "The garden of Australian Dreams: The Moral Rights of Landscape Architects" (PDF). ACIPA.
  15. ↑ Weller, Richard (2009). Boomtown 2050 : scenarios for a rapidly growing city (1st ed.). UWA Publishing. ISBN   978-1-921401-21-3.
  16. ↑ Peter Spearritt (22 October 2009). "Trouble in the city". Inside Story. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
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  21. ↑ "Field of lights in tsunami memorial bid". The Age. 3 May 2006. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  22. ↑ Weller, Richard (2005). Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture (1st ed.). University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   0-8122-3784-6.
  23. ↑ "Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Richard Weller, "ZOOMSCAPE X5"". Harvard University. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
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  27. ↑ "Housing the masses as Perth doubles in size". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 March 2008. Archived from the original on 10 January 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
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  29. ↑ Weller, Richard (2009). Boomtown 2050: scenarios for a rapidly growing city (1st ed.). UWA Publishing. ISBN   978-1-921401-21-3.
  30. ↑ Weller, Richard (2013). Made in Australia: The Future of Australian Cities (1st ed.). UWA Publishing. ISBN   978-1-742584-92-8.
  31. ↑ "Atlas for the End of the World". atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  32. ↑ "Design with Nature Now".
  33. ↑ "Beautiful China". 20 November 2019.
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